I agree. It'd be a cold day in H-ell before I'd mess with the electronics or anything else on my Super duty while it is under the 36m/36k warranty. Ford's warranty is sterling if you have kept your fingers off it.

 

Hey just for some average numbers I checked my hour meter the other day and I have got 389 hours. With only a little of 14000 mile on the odo that means for the last year of ownership I have averaged around 36 mph!!

 

expedition with a 6.0 um ive never seen one .not to rain on your parade but you sound like a 16 year old racing trucks and comparing them to other trucks come on man your in a work velicale.then the gas mileage thing lol are you SEROIUS that motor will suck a ton of fuel i know i owen one it will get 10 mpg dont go by the lie o meter. .your posts are a funny read i can honesty tell you i have a v10 and a 6.0 and my chiped 6.0 will blow the doors off of my v10 by a mile.just figured i would just get you back to the real world for a min.enjoy your truck but lay off the BSAND COME BACK TO EARTH.

 

Do I smell a troll?

 

yes a 6.0 troll in v10 land.
guess he has not run up against a chiped, dyno tuned, headered, cold air kit. 3 valve v10 with 4:56's yet.
sorry big guy but a good running v10 is capible of 15 highway. and i don't have a lieometer , full tank, trip, gals used, div. by miles driven on a hand calculater = mpgs my best for a fact was 16 with my mother in law rideing shot gun on a 145 mile each way highway trip running 75 mph..

 

Hey, what's up with the cranky diesel guy in the V10 forum.

I'm sure he probably meant an Excursion....hmmm, that was difficult to figure. But maybe the noxious diesel fumes were throwing off your thought process a little.

Ohhhhh, a MOD'd 6.0. Yeah, that's a little different animal. How's your warranty by the way?

Lay off the BSEG! Ahhhh, yer just the jealous type.

Have a nice day premiers x, we'll enjoy our $5200 gas voucher as you drive the diesel.



Don't these guys ever get tired of that crap?

 

IGNORE THEM.

That's what I've been doing lately when someone is so far out there that it's not worth a response.

So, if I seem to ignore anyone, it's because they're a fool...

 

na-we have to tell the smoker trolls they are not welcome down in here some how.plus it's giving them back their own line of BS. just as they give us when we go into 6.0 land
yes rich that $5200.00 gas ticket is going a long way now. i kind of like having it. plus i can hear my radio or my thinking and enjoying my drives, having a truck my wife likes to drive. lots of pluses to a v10. guess the biggest was no long extension cords in the winter to plug that thing into so it starts. man i don't miss that in any way or form.

 

Sort of cracks me up. My truck is sooo great that once I void my warranty and spend extra $$$$$ on top of the $4,000-$5000 I already spent for the far superior motor I can beat you in a race???? Or my chipped truck can beat sport cars? Well you take the 45K you spent on the truck and the % K on mods and by a newer vet and it would not even be a contest.

Like I always say, if I towed heavy some times or towed allot or lived where I was in the mountains all the time I would get the PSD. But I do not think I would get the PSD to race as a dragster.

 

Here's the best thing about the whole gas vs diesel crap. What factory mod is on that diesel, that if not there it would be a complete dog?..........Survey says...Ding, ding, ding! A TURBO!

Wow, go figure. A TURBO charged engine that is quick. What a friggin shocker!

Let me take that same turbo or supercharger and slap it on a v10 and we'll see who's running silly. Not to mention the 400 - 600 lbs lighter weight, that wouldn't help any.

Mommy, where do stupid people come from?.....Well honey, it all started with a man named Rudolph.........

BFR don's flame retardant suit!

Sorry Krewat, had too. I have no tolerance for ignorant folks that think that their way is the only way.

 

For what its worth... I've got 648 miles on the truck now. The last two tanks I've put 87 octane in and calculated the mileage by and both times... The computer said 13.0 at the end of the first tank, calculated it out to be 13.14... The second tank I romped on the truck a lot more. Computer said 12.8, calculated at 12.775.

Call that little display what you like. Thats close enough for me to trust it from now on! Sorry you diesel guys are all so angry! The service guy at my rv dealership told me his 2002 7.3 liter averages 14 mpg. So for $5 grand he's beating me by 2 mpg at best and buying more expensive fuel... Enough said.

If you've got a stock diesel and want to race my stock V10, just send me an e-mail so we can meet up and bring about 4 grand with you cash. The guy talking trash looses his money... Fair enough!

I hope you only see this as food for thought. But I only lost $700 trading in my 04 diesel for my new truck. Less than it would have cost me if I had kept it and continued to throw money away on something I wasnt happy with. Go talk to your dealer! Dont get all PO'd because other guys are happy with what they've got!

I owe MANY of the guys on this site round of beer for all the great help and advise I got on what options to get on a new truck. If I hadent listened, and got stuck with ANOTHER $45 thousand dollar disapointment I wouldnt have anyone to blame / get mad at but myself! (MORE food for thought!)

 

If you slap a turbo on the 3 valve V-10 then get ready for real high $$$ problems- stretching or breaking head bolts, blown gaskets, head cracking, piston and valve failure, not to mention the higher combustion temps causing lube oil breakdown.

Sorry BFR, I'm in favor of just keeping the V-10 just like it is. Hell, bone stock it is AWSOME!

And Big Cheese, I am getting 13 mpg on E-10(never tried dinosaur unleaded) using long hand division right along with my rig under easy driving and without a trailer. So you should too. But I have also dropped to 11 pulling NH3 tanks, to it takes fuel to make work. Enjoy it. I don't think there is anything else like it in the world!

 

Sorry I got into the gas -vs- diesel stupidness. It's as much a waste of time as the stupid Chevy -vs- Ford thing. I say. "If its YOUR money paying for it... Buy what YOU like!"

I know I'm MIGHTY glad I didnt think "these guys are all crazy talking about 4.30 gears" and just go off on my own stuborn way... OK, I DID think it once or twice... But when THAT many people recommend something. There's a reason!!! And THAT is why I'll buy the beers all night if I ever met the guys that helped me out here! (YEP, you can hold me to that too!) Heck, I'd be stuck with a Chevy big block right now if I hadnt heard how great the V10 is on here! (not like you can just go to any dealer and test drive one of these beasts!)

I'm picking up my new toy hauler camper Saturday... 11K pounds fully loaded, 1,300lbs tongue weight without the quads in the back to balance out the load. I'll let you guys know what THAT does to the big black beast!

I'm thinking the remote starter IS going to wait at least till summer for install (I dont have a garage!). I trust my electrical skills more than the kids working at the dealership, or the local truck accesories shop, so its gonna be a "do it yourselfer all the way". If those kids at Best Buy can install these things all day and get it right I'm pretty confident... No offense "kids" at Best Buy, but I've seen wire connections made with only electrical tape on them. NOT cool.

 

My buddy and I went coyote hunting a couple of weeks ago. He has a 02 smoker and and when my tenner would shift down , he would make slurping sound, I finally told him I had a 4500 head start on the gas bill, I was paying 30 cents a gallon less for fuel and on top of that he was paying for half the gas bill on the trip, so I was just sitting driving and making money. Last time I heard the big Slurppp! for the trip.

 

hay rich
want my nitro drivers flame suit for that one. right on man.