I am always praising the positive points of the Triton V10 in my truck so I thought it was time I did a post showing the negative side of this incredible engine. Let me know what you don't like about your V10.

This engine is hard on rear tires. It is difficult to start out without squealing the tires.

This engine is so much fun to drive you find yourself wasting fuel by going the long way home and hotrodding at the lights.

This engine is so quiet you hear the rattle of loose coins in the door pockets .

The V10 badge makes ignorant people believe you must be a millionaire to be able to buy gas for a V10 and the truth is the Japanese SUV that they are driving only gets slightly better mileage.

The fact that Dodge used to put a V10 in their heavy duty pickup and people associate the small displacement Ford V10 with the large displacement ( huge disappointment ) V10 that Dodge used.
Dodge still puts the Viper in thier Sports truck hot rod but a truck with a spoiler is a drag queen IMO.

Well ,that's all I can think of for now. Take care and have a good day.

 

Yes indeed, my truck seems to make my right foot quite heavy and my head seams to expand when I get behind the wheel.

Also on wet roads my wife can't seem to keep traction when taking off from a stop, and now she is starting to enjoy this activity.

The only weak point is not engine related, but the stock stereo seems to really suck! I mean REALLY SUCK!!, it could suck the stainless out of stainless steel it sucks so bad. But that really has nothing to do with my wonderful V10 Engine.

 

My V10 has caused increased BSEG induced family separation.

The V10 often leads to a condition know as idi-itis. This is clearly indicated when those driving lesser trucks try to challenge you. This often leads to this individual going into severe road rage.

I have found myself going through more soles on my right shoes than left. I still can't explain this one.

I believe the V10 has some sort of subliminal circuitry installed in the computer, as I find myself drawn to the driveway when left to my own devices for too long.

 

I think we will need to float a loan to pay our lawyers for the broken necks when we turn folks heads...

...no brag, just fact.

 

When I buy shoes, I need a bigger size for my right foot than my left now.
I don't know why?

 

Hum, Drawbacks, leme think.
Well, you don't get a big discount when you order one over the V8.
They Don't get 75 miles per gallon.
And they can't go 500,000 miles with out any service.
Bout all I can think of.

 

to be completely serious - The smoke thing on start up still myths me, It seems like an inherant problem that if you run them for less than 2 minutes and start them again they blow that blue puff of death, I mean WTF!!! Ummmmm, well the spark plug issue but since it hasn;t happend to me and probably won't I'm not gonna count that, ummmm, no piston slap, ummm no hard starts, ummmmm, easy on front end parts, ummmm only 7 quart oils changes and the oil filter is right by the drain plug sitting completely vertical allowing for it to be filled before reinstalling, ummmm, ummmmm, umm, this is a tough one. does looking back at your truck after you park it count, it may have something to do with my neck problems, lol. the said part is my wifes the one that brought the last point to my attention, I didn't even realize I was doing it.

 

The blue puff I have in my '01 - same thing, start for a minute, shutdown, start the next day, POOF.

I noticed a BIG difference after I started putting in only 6 qts vs 6.5 to get it to the FULL mark.

I also notice a lot of air "sound" at the initial startup when this happens.

I kinda wonder if it's because the IAC is wide open when shutdown, and starting it up in that situation makes it suck oil through the PCV breather hose, or something to that effect...

 

Yeh I don't know what causes the blue puff but I've learned that if I need to move the truck just a few feet I'll let it run 3 or 4 mins so it won't do it. Since I've began doing this guess what, no more blue puff at all. Now my W6 tractor has another "Blue Puff" Issue but it has more to do with being a 50-60 year old machine thats been worked to death. Speaking of the tractors and being on the subject of easy starting how many of you guy would beleive me when I say that I hand crank the ol W6 with temps in the -30*F range and the dang thing ll' start everytime?? I suppose fred and wrench remember the old hand crank tractors, not that I'm implying anything, lol.

 

No not me on the hand crank tractor...too many years an Army brat and very little "farm" time in the "olden days" Al my Unkles FarmAll equipment was battery starter system...but they did have hand crank pin on front of the motors.

I did have a 1964 R-5 Renault that had a wierd z bar in the front trunk (rear engine car) and I finally figure it out as a hand crank. So I put the little bugger in neutral, turned the key to run and gave it a try. Note to self..ever do that again then take some crokous cloth to the rusty inside hole of the crank and the rusty outside of the crankinp pin on the mainshaft, then lightly oil before use.

Dang thing flipped over, caught and started, but the crank handle was bound on by all the rust and was spinning like crazy.... You would think I might be smart enough to just go shut off the motor... but NO, I had to try and get the spinning handle to fall off.

Buddies in the parking lot were no help at all...bunch of smart *** funny guys!

 

Fred, so how any bones in your hand did you break?

 

Thats hilarious fred!!! I dang near laughed outloud at that one as I made a mental piture of that. Didn't that little renault have either a clutch to disengage the handle or was the handle notched so when the engine kicks in it pushes the crank out?

Sorry for getting off track wrench, sometimes things just seem to come to me out of the blue.

 

Crank handle pilot hole had 180 degree apart notches and would only engage and turn clockwise. Once motor starts and crank is slipping, the pins on the crank pin unkey and you can pull the crank handle straight away and off the center pin.

No broken bones but one very bruised up inner arm from the first motor start powered flip, and stupid dude not out of the way. The attempts to remove the handle were with combat booted foot and eventually I got the handle off but only after it wobbled around a lot and when it finally got loose it went straight up and landed on the trunk lid (engine cover) making a $100 beater GI special,..... more special.

This same car came to me with two GIANT driving lights mounted to the front bumper..I mean big suckers, about the diameter of Basket *****, HUGE frickin lights, little dinky car.

I found the toggle switch and lit them up, the motor quit. Turn them off and it ran fine.

One weekend we were running German back roads (drunker 'n cooter brown) to avoid the MPs and Poletzi.

I had to turn on the big lights, push in the clutch, coast memorizing the road, turn off the lights, dump the clutch and motor would start and continue for a few hundred feet and repeate... OH I forgot to mention the stock head lights blew a fuse as we left the gasthaus heading back to base.

 

Good thread Wrench....Fred you're killing me, that story is priceless.

My addition is this truck keeps costing me money...


Just purchased a set of heated power signal TT mirrors with crome covers from Ford for my truck...$1k cdn for the set...ouch!@@!!!

Hope to recover some of the cost selling my factory power sail mirrors and the set of unlit power TT mirrors the dealership installed when I bought it on ebay after I install the new ones tomorrow.

 

Talking about hard on rear tires. I got to tow the other day. I was towing a wood deck double axle car trailer with one of those all terrain gas powered gold cart lookin things. I don't know probably around 3,500lbs total. I was still able to light up the back tires on take off. Not just chirp them but do an actual burn out for 15-20ft. My wife was pissed, but I thought it was cool.