F15 weight

[Lynn Eades]

My Book Third edition of the Ford Special Vehicles states on page 220;
Nett weight, cab and chassis fuel,oil, and water, is 4776lb. Then you have to add the weight of the body, and the weight of the original one was 745lb.(many of the back bodies were built locally after shipping, and so will vary)
Thats a total of 5521lb.= 2509kg.
While I'm here the book gives your axle ratio as 6.67:1 (F15a = 6.5:1 = slightly faster on the road) and your tyres should be 900x16.
Interestingly the tyre pressures are suppost to be front 14lb, and rear 24lb. these pressures are for a full rated load on road (Canada only) Cross country they reccommend,10lb front, and 16lb rear. If the truck is used cross country with no load the rear tyre pressures should be deflated to the same as the front ie 10lb.

[Harry Moon]

My tag says my GVW is 10,000.
The tag is on the drivers side of the doghouse just above the distributor door.

[S LATHERON (RIP)]

Hi Gareth
nice to hear that another CMP is making it back onto the road. A FORD as well to boot!
Can you answer a Question please?
Where the DVLA just making sure that you were not driving a class of truck that your licence did not cover.
I guess that you were taxing HISTORICAL class to get MOT test exempt, Road fund licence exempt. IE nil cost to you
Main weights to be aware of in UK. Refers to Goods vehicles in general but all the same handy if you get asked.
7500 KGS GVW trucks can be driven on a car licence [some exceptions/restrictions for when car licence was issued] dvla or vosa websites are full of info
Whats wrong with good old Lbs and ounces, whats all the craze with Kgs thingies.
In my day 2240 Lbs EQUALED A TON.
Not 1016 KGS being 1 ton.
Trucks OR vans under 3500 KGS do not require the operators Licence to carry goods for hire and reward [Although your Insurance might].
Another thought> you must be rich if you filled the fuel tank or is it more a case of once you filled tank you ceased to be rich
Stephen

[gareth]

Hi stephen,
I haven't been in touch with the DVLA yet, just gathering info for registering purposes, just had the the truck MOT'ed and I knew they would want the weight, nothing wrong with pounds and ounces, the machine it was weighed on reads in kg, depends on how you were taught, i'm 42 so was brought up with the metric system, yet find it easier to machine to thousandths of an inch? Definately poorer now!!

[Lynn Eades]

I believe there is 1000kg in a ton. (2.2lbs to the kilo)(the tons are different; short ton, long ton, metric ton and Isaac New ton)They are only the same, when the Missus is talking about the things in your shed, e.g. "You've got tons of crap in there"
In fact the metric system is magic. 1 metre, x 1 metre, x 1 metre (of water) is a ton of water, or if you like (still with water) 1 gram=1cc=1ml.
That much easier than 63,360 inches in a mile, or 10lb of water = 1gallon, and there are 6 1/4 gallons to the cubic foot.
Oh, and I thought it was B.P that was rich.

[Bob Carriere]

Gets worst when you consider the USA measurements....

which means one cubic foot is contains 7.481 US funny gallouns or 6.429 Imperial gallons..... or 65 pounds approx.

so the US gallouns have 128 ounces and the Imperial gallon has 160....

...but the ounces US or Imperial are the same size..... althought the quarts are bigger in England....hihihi.....Kornfuzed yet !!!!

Metric is still a nightmare ....... but it seems less so..... but I still buy construction wood as 2x4 inches even though the actual dimensions are 1 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches........

Planes have crashe landed in Western Canada because the ground/flight crew miscalculated fuel requirements when converting between gallons/litres and pounds of fuel.......

Surprising we made it to the moon and back..... or was it a fluke !!!

Boob

[Lynn Eades]

Do you mean the charade in the Californian desert? (I do believe it actually happened. Landing on the moon, that is)
"It must have been a fluke" ......Isn't a "Fluke" a brand of quality electrical test meter, or a parasitic thing accurring in a sheeps liver? (one must be metric, and the other, imperial?????)