Nuther CL ad

[Fordsandguns]

It doesn't say but looking at the exhaust it might be an IDI. I want the seat for my truck. It looks like it's well worth the asking price.

http://abilene.craigslist.org/cto/2758066806.html

87 F250 XLT LARIAT - $1600 (Abilene)
Date: 2011-12-17, 1:16PM CST
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1987 Ford F250 XLT Lariat. Is a good truck, current tags. Power windows, doors, CD player. $1600.00 OBO Call (Nine 40) Two9Three- Seven 2 Seven 2 Please don't call after 9:30PM

Location: Abilene
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[RANOVRU]

Given the fact theres no tach I would guess not a diesel.

 

[Diesel_brad]

Given the fact theres no tach I would guess not a diesel.

Did all brick diesel come with a tach?

 

[RANOVRU]

Did all brick diesel come with a tach?

IDK. I have yet to see an IDI that hasnt had a factory tach but that doesnt mean theyre not out there. I just assumed all had one...thats why I said "guess".

 

[johneich]

Look at my Avatar, thats one without a tach, I don't think they came out until 84-85, pretty sure they had them by 87 though.

 

[snicklas]

I think the Brick and OBS all diesel had tachs..... everyone I have seen has.... may be wrong... we all know how Ford likes to do random things.

In the 83-86 it was a XLT, XLT Lariat, special order thing... not all came with the Tach... they had the place for it, but no mechanism for it....

One difference between the early and late trucks... the C-6 does not need a tach signal, the E4OD does.... so maybe the 87 may or may not have had the tach.... but I figure, like they do today in almost all vehicles, we need a tach input, why not give it a needle...... at least it is one factory gauge that actually tells you something.... I have a tach in my 98 Sable..... why..... don,t know.... but I think they all did...... plus that way they only have to make 1 instrument cluster..... if you offer it as an option, you would have to stock both dashed in production, if you just put it in there, only 1 dash....

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Did all brick diesel come with a tach?

Yes,..and I think Gassers as well, I honestly don't remember ever seeing a Bricknse anything without a tach.

 

[RANOVRU]

Yes,..and I think Gassers as well, I honestly don't remember ever seeing a Bricknse anything without a tach.

Inline 6 autos as well as some 302/351 autos, usually XL or stripped down models.

Although with the XLT Lariat package in the CL ad I would have thought it would have had one regardless.

 

[Fordsandguns]

I didn't notice the missing tach. I guess because it is kind of dark in that area. I once had an 88 f150 with the 5.0 that didn't have a tach.

 

[Mikey89014]

I had an 86 CC f350 dually diesel 4 spd with no tachometer

 

[The Warden]

Inline 6 autos as well as some 302/351 autos, usually XL or stripped down models.

Makes sense to me...I've seen brick-nose g@$$er clusters with no tach.

FWIW I think that many (but not all) '86 and some '85 diesels had a factory tach, although IIRC it wasn't even an option before '85 (my '84 originally had a IP gear cover with no provisions for a tach sensor)...I think it was standard in the diesels from '87 on, but I"m not 100% certain...