I bought an LTL 9000 in 84 with the 400 Cat and 13 sp. Great looking truck with a nice interior but a small bunk. You are right about the ride quality, even with air ride they will beat your kidneys until you think you are going to start pissing blood.
Congrats on owning a real truck!!! That is a Ford LTL 9000 and I believe that is a 425 Cat. I love that dash set up. You can see everything easily. The new way suspension is a bone shaker but when it’s loaded it will ride super smooth. I love the ford Louisville line. I would take one in a heartbeat over any peterbilts or kenworths any day. Have fun with that bad boy!
Love your channel so much. Can you please make cold starts of everything you have and show us what you do to get them started with this view? would love to see more in detail what you do with the accelerator pedal in them, too
Old School trucks from back in the day were such bad ass, unfortunately i've only driven trucks no older than 1995. By the time i got my CDL in 2006 lot of companies hardly used the old school beauties
You were barely or not even alive when those things were made. Weird. I was alive and doing dealer prep on those things when they were delivered. Serious class 8 Ford dealers got to know those Louisville assembly workers by name. Their work time was not typical car assembly line stuff. Everything coming down the line was different. Sometimes things to do and sometimes not. I have serious respect for the L line of Ford trucks.
Minty truck. I used to drive an 89 tri-axle w/a 425 and an 8 spd. Ford cabs are cold in Northern Ontario winters. I used to wear those yellow foam ear plugs in it. Not much better sound than 1450 pulling hard up a hill for 3~4 minutes in 5th.
Nice stuff bro, my cousin has a LTL9000 dump truck but his is a big cam 400, I did a video of it on my channel but cant go wrong with a 3406B, love those motors!
Looks like a possible 400 HP, don't have Jakes on it. Make sure you calibrate the dip stick at first oil change. With these sideways Ford's, you can over fill the oil pan and the rods will dip in the oil.
@@charliesmotorsports6301 Possible. Maybe too much air pressure in bags, or just the fact that it's an old truck with lots of rattles, and seems rougher than it is.
My 1st truck had Hendrickson suspension under it you don't even know what rough is ,,,cali to r,I 3800 miles one way 220 Cummins, with a 10 speed ,,,,,fast truck back then my 1st truck was a GMCcracker box with a strait 6 Detroit in it 238 no power unless you slammed your hand in the door before you drove it just to piss you off and that was big power ,no air nopower steering no nothing ,,,,b happy what u got ,,,,,,,I'll take it
