2003 5.4 superduty
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I knew she's a 2v but the mechanic I was talking to yesterday said he loves the 5.4, it's his favorite engine but you need to lock it out and put a tuner chip in it. Was very insistent on that.
Bought the thing for $2500 and needed brakes, good deal for what it is. Took me the 10 minute drive home to remember everything I hated about the superduty and to realize that it had nothing I liked about the superduty... thing felt similar to drive as my old 7.3 without my 7.3 😭.
Dana 50 front axle, what were you thinking Ford?! Vacuum controlled automatic hubs?! Why not go full electronic you cheap busterdz?! Thing weighs a bloody ton and a half more than a 9th gen. Horrible on fuel plus gas stinks, no nice diesel smell in the morning anymore 😭. Not mentioning the crappy transmission linkage and the "traction control". Or the stupidity that's the unit bearings. Things turn like a tree, and the million little electronic annoyances drive a guy off the wall. Still better than a dodge or a 6.0l but still..
ANYWAYS! I need to make this truck tolerable. It's got no *****, feels like a brick, slow as ****, and OMG it's a gas pig! Got it down to about 11.5 mpg with babying the throttle and cruise control where ever I can.
Bought the thing for $2500 and needed brakes, good deal for what it is. Took me the 10 minute drive home to remember everything I hated about the superduty and to realize that it had nothing I liked about the superduty... thing felt similar to drive as my old 7.3 without my 7.3 😭.
Dana 50 front axle, what were you thinking Ford?! Vacuum controlled automatic hubs?! Why not go full electronic you cheap busterdz?! Thing weighs a bloody ton and a half more than a 9th gen. Horrible on fuel plus gas stinks, no nice diesel smell in the morning anymore 😭. Not mentioning the crappy transmission linkage and the "traction control". Or the stupidity that's the unit bearings. Things turn like a tree, and the million little electronic annoyances drive a guy off the wall. Still better than a dodge or a 6.0l but still..
ANYWAYS! I need to make this truck tolerable. It's got no *****, feels like a brick, slow as ****, and OMG it's a gas pig! Got it down to about 11.5 mpg with babying the throttle and cruise control where ever I can.
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I knew she's a 2v but the mechanic I was talking to yesterday said he loves the 5.4, it's his favorite engine but you need to lock it out and put a tuner chip in it. Was very insistent on that.
Bought the thing for $2500 and needed brakes, good deal for what it is. Took me the 10 minute drive home to remember everything I hated about the superduty and to realize that it had nothing I liked about the superduty... thing felt similar to drive as my old 7.3 without my 7.3 😭.
Dana 50 front axle, what were you thinking Ford?! Vacuum controlled automatic hubs?! Why not go full electronic you cheap busterdz?! Thing weighs a bloody ton and a half more than a 9th gen. Horrible on fuel plus gas stinks, no nice diesel smell in the morning anymore 😭. Not mentioning the crappy transmission linkage and the "traction control". Or the stupidity that's the unit bearings. Things turn like a tree, and the million little electronic annoyances drive a guy off the wall. Still better than a dodge or a 6.0l but still..
ANYWAYS! I need to make this truck tolerable. It's got no *****, feels like a brick, slow as ****, and OMG it's a gas pig! Got it down to about 11.5 mpg with babying the throttle and cruise control where ever I can.
Bought the thing for $2500 and needed brakes, good deal for what it is. Took me the 10 minute drive home to remember everything I hated about the superduty and to realize that it had nothing I liked about the superduty... thing felt similar to drive as my old 7.3 without my 7.3 😭.
Dana 50 front axle, what were you thinking Ford?! Vacuum controlled automatic hubs?! Why not go full electronic you cheap busterdz?! Thing weighs a bloody ton and a half more than a 9th gen. Horrible on fuel plus gas stinks, no nice diesel smell in the morning anymore 😭. Not mentioning the crappy transmission linkage and the "traction control". Or the stupidity that's the unit bearings. Things turn like a tree, and the million little electronic annoyances drive a guy off the wall. Still better than a dodge or a 6.0l but still..
ANYWAYS! I need to make this truck tolerable. It's got no *****, feels like a brick, slow as ****, and OMG it's a gas pig! Got it down to about 11.5 mpg with babying the throttle and cruise control where ever I can.
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Bought it because I needed another truck and the price was right. It's served its needs but now no one wants to take it off my hands except the woman.. if I'm stuck with the thing I want to make it more tolerable. I'm into it less than $3000 but the cost of fuel and insurance on something that gets 11.5 mpg and has no jam in the pedal makes my eye twitch. Will cost me about $1500 to do intake exhaust and a tuner but I was wondering if there was anything else I could do to the thing that would give some good gains on the mileage and oomf.
#10
Don’t waste your time on the intake and exhaust or really even the tuner since it’s not throttle by wire the biggest improvement would be the shift strategy. What you want is gears 4.30s for stock size tires and you have to do the front and rear if 4x4 but will be as much as you paid for the truck though.
#11
3.73 gears currently on 33" tires. Can't figure out if it was a leveling kit or a small lift but it's got an aftermarket suspension that's pretty decent quality.was thinking 35" and dumping the gears to 4.10 but it's got so little power and torque for such a heavy truck, I'd be shooting myself in the foot.
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3.73 gears currently on 33" tires. Can't figure out if it was a leveling kit or a small lift but it's got an aftermarket suspension that's pretty decent quality.was thinking 35" and dumping the gears to 4.10 but it's got so little power and torque for such a heavy truck, I'd be shooting myself in the foot.
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#15
Can't haul drywall in a minivan for starters and my last superduty was getting close to 22mpg which is better than that 6cyl minivan you just mentioned and I could actually use it for work. When you run a fleet of trucks that's currently at 5 vehicles, you notice the odd man out that's using nearly twice as much as the others despite seeing less work. I'm not about to waste 80,000 on a truck that's going to take 5+ years to replace it's investment after maintenance when I can buy an older truck for dirt cheap and see it pay for itself in less than a month. I can blow up 10 of these things for the price of driving a new truck around the block and profit from it.