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awesome...supposedly push rodAs for the 7.3-liter gas motor—which Ford fans may notice shares its displacement with the legendary Navistar-designed 7.3-liter PowerStroke diesel found in Super Duties in the ’90s and 2000s—Ford says it’s a brand new engine architecture, though it’s got lots of classic old truck motor characteristics, including a cast iron block, a pushrod design, and port injection.Ford says the engine has a forged steel crankshaft, variable valve timing, and “oil jets cool the pistons under heavy loads.”
Sounds good to me! I've already decided that if something happened to my 99, I'd get a newer gas motor. ... Between the improvements in the transmission and the rest of the truck, the 6.2 would be fine.....
That is exactly the direction I'm heading in, unless I get converted over to a Tundra before it happens. Had wanted to make the jump this year, but my priority is shifted to replacing my wife's SUV for this year, and that probably pushed the truck swap out another year.
I bought a 2004 Audi S4 with the V8 engine in it in 2004, that is the last vehicle I will buy new. Unless I win the lottery, then all bets are off... I paid $25,000 down on the car just to get the payments to where I could afford them on a SSgt pay check... It was a crap ton of fun to drive, but man was it expensive.
As for the 7.3 gasoline, I wish they had gone another .2 bigger to "update" the 7.5 from years back, but it is what it is.
I really don't know what I will do if we have to get rid of our 7.3 for any reason. I don't like the idea of a gasoline truck running at 6-8 MPG's towing a 10,000 lbs trailer. You cannot even put an auxiliary tank in the bed meaning you stop for fuel a lot more...
First world problems...
Plus trying to get a truck and trailer into the car gasoline pumps would get old fast.
I'm sure this was no accidental move by the Ford marketing department, since so many people associate 7.3 with "Ford that runs". It does look like it will too judging from the specs.
7.3 gas with 10 speed auto, that would be ample for my needs. Very interesting and look forward to more info as it is available. Now, to the point made above, being required to go into the passenger car lanes towing our 5th wheel is a real concern. As we all know, some of those places are really tight and other just have too many disorderly mouth breathers.
Any truck stop we have used on the road has ample room to fuel a gas rig. If you use Flying J/Pilot, their RV lanes have gas as well as diesel. I have been watching alot of stuff on the V 10. Guys are claiming 9-10 mpg towing 12-13k. I dunno, like you guys said, first world problems. I'd be down for a big block gas these days. Lots less to maintain and monitor. I love my 7.3, don't get me wrong, but I'll never own a newer diesel. At that point, it'll be time for a new truck with a gas engine. All the perks of owning a diesel, other than torque, went away a long time ago. Fuel is more than gas, maintenance is lots more, monitoring while towing is a PITA at times. Watch the YouTube vid of V10 hauling 13k up the grade outside of San Diego. I was flat impressed, not to mention the engine sounds badass!!!!
Here is another good one. I can't lie. I am kinda getting sold on these LOL. Ike is here to stay though unless a buyer comes along for the ride price. We kind of desperately need a crew cab.
Sometimes the RV fuel lanes are a joke to maneuver through, poor design.
I would install the auxiliary tank in the back of the gasser and maybe increase the on board tank size, but that does not eliminate the ******s in the gasoline lanes. One of the best perks of a diesel truck is the truck fuel lanes.
That said, I don't know if I could own a newer diesel. Way too tight under the hood and parts are crazy expensive.
A "Godzilla" 7.3 gas mated to a 10 speed trans sounds nice, but expensive and inconvenient at times.
There are some advantages to a gas motor. Lower purchase price and maintenance costs. A little quieter and smoother, although modern diesels are very smooth and quiet compared to the older ones. If I used my truck primarily as transportation to and from work and trips to Home Depot and only occasionally pulled anything heavy during "fun season", that new 7.3 with the 10 speed would be way more than enough. If it's a truck that pulls heavy all the time or very often the diesel will eventually pay for itself with superior fuel economy, but of course the price of diesel is higher so that one is not that easy to calculate.
Some truck stops have RV lanes but I wouldn't always count on that. You would just have to be careful. Hell I see container hauler idiots in Elizabeth wedging their sleeper cab rigs with a 40 footer behind it into car filling stations because it's cheaper at that place lol.
If I were having to do that daily as a work thing forget it, too much hassle. But the gasser could work okay if you added a big aux tank. You could work around it.
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