Here she is! Ambulance 6.9...

[OldIron82]

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Diggin' the monster alternator. I believe it's special for the ambulances power needs. Serial #364588 [emoji106]

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[FarmerFrank]

Dude your missing one of the best upgrades you can do to a truck, the Saginaw van ps pump. At least you got the brackets.


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[riotwarrior]

Go back...get ps pump n lines..

 

[The Warden]

Did this come out of an E-Series chassis? Looking at where the fuel filter bracket is (assuming that's what I'm seeing behind the alternator), I'm thinking this engine came out of a pickup chassis, unless the pickup fuel filter bracket was added and the van filter bracket was taken off before the picture was taken.

 

[OldIron82]

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Here is what she looked like before being pulled. I thought the pump looked similar to the one in my current rig. I believe it was a truck chassis, not a van. I do not remember a door from the cab into the body.

Note the wide open air cleaner housing. The day the hood was ***** and pillaged from the rig was the day the 6.9's death warrant was signed.


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[79jasper]

Well I bet it came in from the top of the air cleaner.

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[madpogue]

Look at the fore-aft position of the engine relative to the cowl. It's a van. Oh, and coil springs.

 

[Dieselcrawler]

Look at the fore-aft position of the engine relative to the cowl. It's a van. Oh, and coil springs.

Wrong. 2wd truck, you can't even see the air cleaner like that on a van

 

[Dieselcrawler]

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That's what you see from the front of a van

 

[madpogue]

Oops, my bad. Hmm, air cleaner in my '85 sits considerably further forward than in that pic.

 

[dunk]

Not sure how accessible things are from under the doghouse, but after that pic I never want to work on a van.

 

[sjwelds]

^^^Agreed. Looks like my worst nightmare.

 

[madpogue]

^^^^^ Nightmare is a good word. Decades ago, bunch of high school buddies at one guy's family cottage, his parents' '75 E350, the tranny dipstick tube broke off. All we had out in the sticks was some electrical tape and very basic tools. Van was only 4-5 years old, but the doghouse studs were rusted to @&%!*. They ALL broke loose from the floorboard (or was it from the doghouse?) and just spun with the wrench. Had to take a hacksaw blade to them; no room for the saw handle. Then had to squeeze arms/hands in there to position the tube, and taped it up like a hockey stick. Four hours of fun in the sun... oh wait, it was pouring rain. It got us home, but with nothing to hold the doghouse down tight, it was nice and loud. Maybe they have quick-release latches on the doghouses now, but that one was indeed a nightmare. And that was with a gasser; I can just imagine it with an IDI shoehorned in there.

 

[The Warden]

Not sure how accessible things are from under the doghouse, but after that pic I never want to work on a van.

Actually, with how accessible things are from under the doghouse, some light maintenance can actually be easier on a van. When I did the glow plugs on my old van, I just unbolted both front seats (4 bolts, 30 second job) and slid them back, removed the doghouse, and sat down where the driver's seat was and could access 7 out of 8 glow plugs (the #1 plug had to be accessed from the front). Sure beat standing outside in the pouring rain to do them. That was on a n/a 6.9L; I imagine a turbo'ed engine would have been a different animal.

With that having been said, IMHO heavy repairs are out of the question without pulling the engine. I've heard of some people doing head gaskets with the engine in the van, but I would NOT want to do it

^^^^^ Nightmare is a good word. Decades ago, bunch of high school buddies at one guy's family cottage, his parents' '75 E350, the tranny dipstick tube broke off. All we had out in the sticks was some electrical tape and very basic tools. Van was only 4-5 years old, but the doghouse studs were rusted to @&%!*. They ALL broke loose from the floorboard (or was it from the doghouse?) and just spun with the wrench. Had to take a hacksaw blade to them; no room for the saw handle. Then had to squeeze arms/hands in there to position the tube, and taped it up like a hockey stick. Four hours of fun in the sun... oh wait, it was pouring rain. It got us home, but with nothing to hold the doghouse down tight, it was nice and loud. Maybe they have quick-release latches on the doghouses now, but that one was indeed a nightmare. And that was with a gasser; I can just imagine it with an IDI shoehorned in there.

Interesting...I guess Ford realized the folly of that design. My old '84 E-350 had two spring-clamps on the sides and two bolts going through the floor. It would have been nicer to have clamps on the floor and be able to remove the doghouse without tools (and Ford went that route with the OBS vans), but the setup they had in '84 seemed to work well enough.

 

[OldIron82]

*** is that!? That ain't for me.

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