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Here is the latest addition to the stable! this truck is leaps and bound better than out prior 05' F350 6.0
Can't wait to start towing with it!
Custom ordered back before Xmas arrive at the railyard on Feb1 and for whatever reason was not released this past Sunday (it was a very long month.....)
Now is at the shop getting a linex, in-bed plug, B&W GN hitch and toolbox.
I have the paper work at home so i don't want to give you wrong estimates...but in the BayArea labor is $140/hr. I asked to relocated the trailer camera in bed, put they said they can't do it...maybe we'll try ourselves or see if somebody comes up with a wireless dongle
Yes my neighbor and his GF have an Elise, a Wrangler Unlimited, a Fiat 500C and a some highly modified(i.e. loud) Porsche 914. Young couple....never mow their lawn..nor pay the neighborhood kid to do it.
Nichols industries has everything you need to relocate the camera plug to the truck bed. They make a new box for the bed, you install the plug that came with the kit, they make the extension to go from the pigtail under the tire to the bed. There is a thread on here with a lot of info about it.
Great looking truck, looks like lots of fun is in your future!
I'd be interested in how you like the B&W set up once done if you get the chance to report on that. Any plans for lift/level or air bags?
Your post brings back some good memories for me. You are listed in Santa Clara, I grew up in Sunnyvale. The wife worked at HP's Advanced Products Division in Santa Clara back around the time they moved to Oregon.
The Lotus caught my eye also. The son of our neighbor across the street in Sunnyvale was home on military leave when I was a junior in high school (1970) and came over one day to ask a favor.
He knew I was a gear head and said he had a car coming (not until after he returned to duty in Europe however) which was damaged in overseas shipment. He wanted me to drive it to the repair shop as neither of his parents could drive a stick. The only other info he gave me was to be careful as I would not be able to see the nose of the car from the driving position. I didn't give it much thought and he didn't tell me what it was.
Several weeks go by, I'm in my driveway working on my Mopar and up pulls a tow truck with a Lotus Europa Series 2. I didn't know what it was at the time but I sure knew I wanted to drive it, and as soon as possible. I didn't sleep for a week as that is how long it took his mom to come over with the keys. The day had finally come.
Think about it, a 16 year old in a Lotus. I'm confident, I had after all been racing go karts, riding motorcycles, and working on cars the entirety of my short life to date, right?
Nope. I'm nervous and my hands are shaking as I put the key in the ignition. It fires right off but I am soon to find out this car is beyond my scope of ability. First failure, reverse is not to be found. I try over and over again. Now my hands are wet, forehead is dripping, and my heart is pounding. The Lotus was nose up in their driveway so I got lucky and was able to let it drift out into the street in neutral.
Next challenge....find 1st gear. I was a healthy young lad at the time but holding that clutch pedal down whilst searching for a gear, any gear, was not easy. It was very stiff. A wave of fear in anticipation of complete and utter failure began to rise within me. The guys mom is waiting on the street in her car to drive to the dealer with me and ride me home, she's staring at me in the mirror.
Focus Mark, focus, I am telling myself. Now pumping the clutch and finally...pop...it drops into gear. I didn't care what gear, it's time to go. Stall. Again. Stall. OK, pull it out and try for 1st again, finally got it and am underway. Next problem...the throttle is more like an on/off switch than a progressive, normal American throttle and I am hopping down the street. I think I see his mom laughing in the mirror now. It feels like the throttle goes from idle to full in less than an inch of pedal travel. Focus Mark, focus, easy on the throttle.
In the end I finally got it to the dealer, but only after stalling it 7 times.
Have not been in another Lotus in the many years since, not sure I am yet ready.
We had B&W in our prior F350 and my wife was adamant about getting another B&W setup on the new truck (you know how that goes...)
Really liked it in old truck (2005 F350), the functionality/features are identical in the MY17 so i'm pretty sure we'll be okay. We'll tow for real next Saturday and report back.
Not planning on leveling the truck, but i'm pretty confident we'll have to lift/black our GN horse trailer by a few inches.
The BayArea is pretty nice as longs as:
-you make money....which is never enough since housing prices are crazy
-you like taking 45 minutes to drive 10 miles
! this truck is leaps and bound better than out prior 05' F350 6.0
