I have been doing a lot of searching about the 94 f250 I just purchased. This site came up a lot so I decided to go ahead and join this forum.
My 94 is a little bit of a project truck. I got a really good deal on it knowing it would need some work to make it a good truck. However, it turned out to be a lot better than what I was expecting. It has 255K miles on it but the engine does not smoke and it pulls like a freight train. It has the 5 speed manual trans and 4 wheel drive.
I picked it up yesterday and drove it 500 miles home from Oregon to Northern California. So I got real familiar with it.
The things that I know I am going to have to do immediately are:
1) It has what I think to be the dual mass flywheel blues. The idle seems a little rough at times and when the idle is rough I hear this insane rattling sound. If I tap the throttle the noise goes away. I also noticed the sound changing as I engaged and disengaged the clutch. In searching around this seems to be that the dual mass flywheel springs are just about shot. I am wondering if it is cheaper to just put in a new dual mass flywheel or do the single mass conversion.
2) The front end is loose (way to much play in the steering wheel). So I am thinking new ball joints, tie rod ends and maybe even a rebuilt steering box.
3) it is leaking some engine oil. I have not spent the time to find out where but it was leaving a puddle every time I parked it. On the trip home I had to add a quart but I am pretty positive that it is only leaking it and not burning it since it does not smoke.
4) I am not even sure if this is really a problem but it has manual locking hubs. When I picked it up they were locked(did not realize in the beginning that they were). When I was driving it I immediately found that it had a nasty vibration up around 70 mph. Pondering the possibilities the first 200 miles(and forced to keep it around 65 to avoid the vibration) I got out checked the hubs and that is when I found they were in the locked position. I switched them to free and bingo no more vibration. I am kind of on the fence as to if this is just expected behavior or not.
So kind of a long introduction but hello everyone this seems like a very useful site
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Larry
