Good Morning Ford lovers! Found out i have to relocate up to Alaska. Thank goodness I'll be driving during the summer so I have a bit of time. I'll be going through all the fluids before I take off but just seeing if anyone has any preferences on what to use. I know its just preferences but I'd like some ideas. Mainly the fluids for my front and rear end. Oh I almost forgot I'll be driving my 08 supercrew FX4 that already has 140k miles plugs were done roughly about 10-15k miles ago.

 

I would use royal purple in the diffs, I have a rear diff. temp gauge and when I switched to royal purple I dropped the temp over 100 degrees, huge difference. so that I would recommend, good spare tire, tire plug kit and compressor, long stretch of roads with no help in site for hours, you have to be able to help your self, even if you just borrow from a friend, and of course a couple milk baskets with extra fluids, spare belt, put a new one on and keep the old for a spare, extra heater hoses and radiator hoses, do the same replace with new and keep the old for spares, 3/8th rubber hose, duct tape, jumper leads, test light, package of fuses, relays, bulbs 3156, 3157. couple 194's you can go crazy, you should see into my tool box, I mean you cant see anything it's so overflowing. Absorbent mats, I got everything, shovels ect. you may not need to go to that length, but just think of the common things that go wrong and replace them and keep the spares. Good luck, enjoy the trip and good luck in Alaska.

 

Thanks David7.3 my dad has made that drive once or twice and he told me that there would be long stretches of hardly any people. So I'll definitely be getting a few spare parts that are more probable to break. Also thanks for the input

 

In 1988 I drove from San Diego to Fairbanks and back and there was a 200 mile stretch of the Al-Can Highway in the Yukon that wasn't paved. It was extremely dusty gravel with what felt like speed bumps every couple of feet. It was miserable and it tore up my car. Hopefully they've paved it since then. Good luck....