Hey all new to this forum and new to owning a Ford pick-up. I recently bought a pretty nice 1991 F-250 with auto and the 5.8 V8 with 155000 KM. I was wondering are these thingsreally slow in the mid-range accelleration department, or is there some areas I should be checking on this thing? Now it does have overdrive and with overdrive off,it pick-up quite nicely. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance

 

[sm=welcomesign.gif]I dont own a f 150.[hr]But maybe you should tune it up and do some mod's to it to get better preformance.

 

the thing just sounds old, besides in stock form those things weren't the greatest at taking off

 

Your F250-F350 were made for hauling heavy loads,, they aint speedie , So ya low / mid range is pulling power,, if you need it faster prehaps look at putting a cam in her ,, or try a puther chip

 

I am new here, too. I just got a 1996 F-350 with 7.3 P/S and though it has plenty of rolling power once it is up to about 20-30 mph, it is a real dog on the start up. I don't know if this thing would pull a trailer very well unless someone got it going.
Has anybody had a similar experience? Sluggish start off, but excellent acceleration once it gets rolling? I don't know if it would be a transmission problem because when the accelerator is mashed to the floor, the engine still isn't turning any faster than if I was just easing it up to speed. It has 3.55:1 rear end and stock tires.