The new light-duty 1997 Ford F-250 looked a lot like the new F-150, though its wheels have a unique 7-lug configuration.
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If you have one of these heavy-duty Ford pickups from 1997 or 1998, Chilton manual 26664 is the book you want (though the diesel engine is excluded, but can be found in Haynes Ford and GM Diesel Techbook). For the 1998 model year, only the F-250 HD remained on the old platform, as the F-350 went on hiatus. The 1997 Ford F-250 HD and above carried on with the same engine and transmission options they had in 1996.
The old style ninth generation F-Series body continued under the F-250 HD, F-350, and F-Super Duty moniker.
While the F-150 kicked off the tenth generation of the F-Series with style in spades, the F-250 and heavier trucks carried the torch for “proper” truck styling the 1997 F-250 and F-350 are exactly the same as the 1996 versions. However, the F-250 designation would now be tied to two different trucks: one old and one new. The F-250 HD could be had either as a regular cab/long bed combo, extended cab/short bed, or crew cab/short bed model the latter two combinations are rare and were made for a little over a year before being discontinued in the fall of 1997. Compared to the standard 3/4-ton truck, the 250 HD had a 500 lb higher GVWR (8,300 vs. The turbo diesel option available in 1996 was the 7.3-liter Powerstroke V8 from Navistar, introduced to the bigger F-Series trucks in the second half of 1994.Īlso new for the 1996 model year was the F-250 HD, which had substantial differences compared to the standard F-250, including a transmission cooler, heavier rear axle, and heavier springs and shocks. The 1996 model year heavier-payload models (F-250 and above) offered the same gasoline engines as the F-150, including the 4.9-liter I6, 5.0 and 5.8-liter V8, plus the big 7.5-liter (460ci) big block V8. The Super Duty name goes even further back than that though, to the mammoth V8 truck engine used by Ford from 1958 to 1981 (in 401ci, 477ci, and 534ci displacements), and the trucks they were installed in. At the bottom was the F-150 (the lighter payload F-100 having left after 1983) and at the top since 1987 was a 1 1/2 ton F-Super Duty commercial chassis cab, but all of them wore the same sheet metal.
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The ninth generation of the F-Series would be the last time all Ford truck models in the series were all part of the same lineup.