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Quote: Originally Posted by Grizzly 'strokeThis_'07, I am not at all impressed. Why didn't they get a real truck with a real engine? Ive been waiting for Dodges to roll throught the gates, but as the old saying goes, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other...which ones going to fill up first? Quote: Originally Posted by Ncostello On the Ford SuperDuty Website...they said 4 companies were getting them as test units before...

Quote: Originally Posted by Motorhead They weren't used in the boxy regular package cars. We had long wheel base SRW Sprinter vans and a few DRW sprinter cab and chassis with a cube box on it. Some of the regular package cars have a Mercedes Truck 4 cylinder engine in them. Don't know the cubes of the engine but it was bigger than the 2.7 sprinter MBZ engine. yea but even the smaller units are really to big for the engines being...

Smart move...keeping the name of the engine the same as the legendary 6.0 and 6.4. Great move! At least "Scorpion" would have indicated that is is something totally new (if it really is). I like being able to "see the ground" too. It is much easier to work on an inline engine than a V engine. I still do not know why the Ford folks went with a V8 instead of a inline 6.

The thing I've noticed about all the people behind the wheel in a Prius...is that they LOOK like they belong in a Prius. If you know what I mean. The green flat earth no-growth eco-marxists really do have a certain look to them. They've drank the Gore-Aid to the point that its stunted their looks.

Quote: Originally Posted by Motorhead I had ONE L-4, L-5 back surgery and BOTH knees operated on. My shoulder that I thought I was going to have to have operated on got better after about a year of being away from them. AND I got out of there at 53yrs old!!! Shutting off the engine was ALWAYS a mandated issue but alot of us didn't do it. BUT...If some S.O.B. jumped in your truck and you had left the keys in it or left it running, You...

Quote: Originally Posted by PToombs Ema s culating valve. Get it right! Now where did I leave that muffler bearing and the diesel exhaust fluid? no no no.... bovine= cow emaculating valve= cows udder, teet

Quote: Originally Posted by TFucili Well, that's not very impressive longevity. Years ago, a friend of mine who had a rebuild shop was approached by UPS to do engines for them. My friend didn't like some of their requirements, and took a pass, but when we were talking to the rep he said that the I-6 Ford 300 gasser was averaging 150-160K miles, and the I-6 GM 292 gassers were generally getting closer to 180K between overhauls. Other...

Wish I had bought stock in automotive hose, clamp, and tubing companies. It does remind me of what the plumbing of the 70's Detroit cars were like when emissions kicked in high gear. Maybe down the road they can clean this mess up like they did on the cars. Ford really ought to make these hinge on the front to make them have some access. Of course that won't be needed when you can get 300,000 miles out of them with no repairs, right?

Again, note: 1998 and newer diesel vehicles. Plea for help: If inspections and test have already been initiated in New York and Colorado (other states?) I would like to see factual correspondence from those members about the procedure. thanks in advance. Regards, Robert Patton

The guys who bad mouth the gov't for saving their company are just a bunch of whiners. Can you imagine the fire and brimstone Obama would have gotten if he just let the company go. And just who would these clowns get to do their warranty work?