New Piece Of Documentation

I just got another piece of literature that David helped me find: Ford's Technical Service Bulletin Index covering passenger cars as well as light & heavy-duty trucks from 1981 - 1986.  It describes a problem that might be seen and then lists the TSB bulletin & article that explains how to fix it and to which years that applies.  There are 26 pages of such listings for the F-Series trucks and another 14 pages for the Broncos.

This thing is 353 pages long and is bound.  But since it is also set up for a 3-ring binder, I think I'll break the binding and have the F & U series pages scanned.  Then I'll OCR them to make them something I can edit, and as we find the relevant TSB's to put on this site I'll turn the reference text in this index into a hot-link to the TSB.  That way you can click on the TSB number and go directly to the TSB.  

Now, there's a minor problem in that some or many of the TSB's in this list were superseded by later TSB's.  For instance, the issue of the dash (firewall) cracking due to the hydraulic clutch for a diesel or 460 has a TSB of 85-9-38.  But, we have another one on this site (90-16-7) that addresses the same issue.  And yet the later one doesn't show to supersede the earlier one.

Plus, the 85-9-38 TSB only covers the 1983 & '84 years, not '85 or '6.  But the 90-16-7 TSB covers from '84 on.  Surely it should cover the 1983 diesels and 460's as well.  Hmmm, this is going to take some figuring out.

But, it could be a very valuable resource to let us know what TSB's there were for our trucks, and then we can go find them.

Speaking of finding them, I'm still hoping to find a CD of them.  This book refers to the fiche that contain the TSB's, and I see #'s from 003 to 030, and that was just with a quick scan.  So, there must be a lot of microfiche containing them, and I haven't found an easy way of getting the info from fiche to an electronic version.

Well, that wasn't as hard as I thought, although I'm not real happy with the fact that some of the pages aren't a straight as I'd like.

In any event, take a gander: TSBs/TSB Index.  And tell me what you think of the link on Dash Panel.  Granted it doesn't take you to that exact TSB, but I'd bet that's the new one that superseded the listed one.

Interesting. The one about the leaves discharging from the heater vents...lol. Was that why they changed the cowl panel on the Bricknose trucks to the finer mesh?

Yep, I thought that was funny.  Just wait until next Fall when the leaves start burning.  

Wow! Thanks Gary!

Can't ever have too much info.!

These ones look nice, Gary, good job. :)

Thanks, guys.

Now I'm working on the 1985 EVTM.  Boy, these EVTM's are complex, so this one will take a few days.