An interesting story on my 2019 F250, a little over a year ago I sold all my Boeing stock and paid cash for my F250. I bought Boeing at about $100 per share back in the great recession, I sold it at about $390. If I would have listened to people who say leave it in the market and get a loan...
I would disagree with you on the stabilizer, it's there for a reason and if it is worn out or not large enough it can cause death wobble. The root cause might be some other reason but the stabilizer prevents a small shimmy from turning into full fledged death wobble.
I need a lame manual top, the more auto stuff the more stuff to fail. I wouldn't mind having an auxiliary hand crank on the engine, my 76 FJ55 still has a hand crank on it.
When I was a kid we had a 78 F150 351M 4 SPD 4x4 we used on the farm, it pulled a gooseneck constantly over rough ground overloaded. It held up well, although it went through many sets of u-joints in the front axle from being cut hard in 4WD while using the trailer. Nothing major ever broke, the...
I am not sure about that :), I have a 78 F250 that's been worked pretty hard and all I have ever done to it is repack the hubs and put one u-joint in the front axle. I doubt we are going to see any IFS that has that little of an amount of work done to it in 42 years.
I think the reason that it has worked for so long on you 79 Bronco is that it's SFA, if you read many plow forums generally IFS is not thought of as being very strong on a plow truck.
They are a good example of a dealer not afraid to stock manual transmission trucks. I would say there were times that 20 percent or more of their 2500/3500 trucks were manual transmission. They ordered them for dealer stock in all colors and trim levels. And they sold well.