There is a key on the left side of the key board which says "caps lock" If you push it your letters will be in lower case and much easier to read. Most here would rather not have "shouting" (typing in large case letters). Thanks

 

Fountain1,

Are the GMC dually bedsides / fenders on your truck plastic or steel?

Thanks

 

If the dual wheels touch (usually just at the bulge at the bottom) they will build a tremendous amount of heat especially as the weight of the payload goes up and the real risk is catastrophic failure. The real reasons to not have contact between the tires is more serious than just the law.

Checking tire pressure is important especially when loaded. You should hope a solution to the TPMS comes about soon for the DRW. Balancing the pressure between the two is a good invention provided one tire does not start leaking. You can have both tires dangerously underinflated before recognizing the issue. Of course, one flat and the other full is only good at low speed until the next repair facility. The lesson to be learned is that tire pressure monitoring is important, whether it is by dash mounted gauge, manual pressure checks or a good slap with a hammer or pipe listening for the unmistakable sound and feel of rotten melon.

 

Rob, the TPMS is only not available on the 450. On a 350 DRW truck, all 6 pressures are displayed. Here is my screen:

 

Beautiful. The F450 wheels do not accept the sending units from what I understand. Josh or one of the guys on the tour indicated there were new sending units being developed for the F450 but had not been produced yet.

These dashboards are pretty keen. You should have your odometer checked. Only 499 miles so far??? I have so much pent up energy I will do that the first afternoon.

 

Oh, that pic was quite awhile ago. I have over 2k on it now. I've only had it 5 weeks. But the new cluster display is awesome.

 

I had a 99 dually and loved the stability. Put a 9' Snowway plow on it. With 1000# in the bed and 6 new tires it was like plowing with a dozer. I traded it in on a SRW in 2008 and ordered a SRW on the 2017 because there isn't a drive thru bank that you can fit through comfortably with the DRW. Not such an issue now due to so much on line banking and deposits, but it was in 2008 when I switched. For the 2017 I didn't want the long box with CC as it would not fit into my shop. The shop was filled with hay and tractor up until last fall when I build a larger barn for the farm stuff and could finally park my truck inside. Oh and if you are a fan of Taco Bell plan on using on the walk in as their drive-thrus are narrow for the LWB DRW's.

 

Metalcaster,

Are you ordering a diesel or gas for your 2017? Just curious.

 

I could not settle for the gas after driving some of the 2015-2016 diesels. I did drive a 6.2 and it drove just like my 6.8. Good power around 3k and above but I really don't want to put my foot in it all the time to get into the power band. The 6.7 has the power and that sold it.

 

Yeah, I agree. Not sure if you drove the 2017 6.2L, which has more torque lower down than the 2011-2016 engines...but you'll love the diesel. If you read the Motor Trend Truck of the Year article about the Super Duty, the new 6.2L puts down some impressive performance stats (0-60, 1/4 mile, towing and not towing). The unloaded specs are pretty close to the diesel. For some reason, the diesel just feels faster. It's just amazingly expensive to get a diesel now, though.

Good luck with the new rig.

 

Does anyone over 25 years old eat at Taco Hell?

 

Umm so I'm going to bust both of you.

I eat at taco bell AND drive my F-450 through the drive through no problem. Love those cameras

 

i,have seeing disability, sorry for youre issue with larger letters

 

steel ..all lower case , no more shouting

 

I'm hear'n ya.

Have had 2 duallys and I love them. That said duallys are for weight bearing loads. If don't need a dually you may not want to buy one, especially in northern climes with a lot of snow on the ground.

4 tires on the rear only give you more traction if you have a bigger load than 2 can handle. Its the Co-efficient of traction. The more contact patch you have the less weight per sq in, traction goes down...something to think about.


Have not seen it in years but back in my Corvette daily driver days, no matter how far I parked from what ever and generally would circle the parking lot and take the furtherest point.

On time guess him and his buddy pulled up either side and I could not even in those skinny days slide between on either side....but I had a trick, instead of pushing down the back of my convertible top till he sealed against the body, I would only go part of the way and thus leave a small gap. To get in push down gently and pull out just a bit on each rear corner and the back of the top would pop loose. Then crawl in. This is how common this was back the 60's and 70's.

Then I would pull out and remove their side view mirrors and lay them on the hood for them. I did not unscrew them, just broke or ripped them off, the left my name and tele # if they had any problems, to please call...NEVER got a call.