Hi all,

below is a copy of a post to alt.trucks.ford, now with click-poppy
picture goodness.

I took my "new' truck to its first job yesterday, helping a friend
clean out a guy's stash of old car parts.  No problems at all until I
got to my first stop, when I shut the truck down it puked coolant
everywhere.  Still never got above the "O" in "NORMAL" on the temp
gauge for the remainder of the trip.  This AM bottle was empty.  I
pulled rad cap and coolant level was just slightly down from the neck
of the bottle.  I noticed that there are two hoses connected below the
rad cap, one to the bottle and one to a tee in what looks like a
heater hose.  The tee looks factory as the hose connections are
crimped.  I noticed that the hose going to the bottle was connected to
the fitting below the sealing surface for the rad cap and the one
going to the tee was above.  It seems to me that this is backwards and
the system would never pressurize in that condition; my gut tells me
that I should just swap the hoses, refill with coolant and see what
happens.  Is this correct?

Truck is '93 F-150, 300, E4OD, extended cab 2WD.

Here's some pics:

http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/FordCooling/hosepics.html

thanks!

nate

PS - are there any good cheap shop manuals for this truck, or is the
factory manual the only one that's worth buying?