Anybody use it?
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Anybody use it?
The hourmeter that is. Anybody use the hourmeter for pto operations or for any other purpose? Only time I ever use hourmeters is on the tractors and while I knew that there are people that use these trucks for pto applications, I didn't think they were enough so for Ford(or if anyone else has done it, didn't notice it on my 02 dodge cummins but I wasn't looking for it) to put them on the trucks, particularly the 350 and 250(450 on up I could understand moreso). I'm just trying to get a bead on if it's something truly useful to have if there is quite a few that use it for some type of relevant operation(even if it's just doing your maintance by the hourmeter(which I would imagine would get pretty expensive quicker then mileage as a gauge for maintance)), or if your just find it a novelty to have, or indifferent to it, or think ford(or anybody else that has it) could either have just done away with it or replaced it with something more useful(or as useful as it could be coming from the msg center)? Just for my own edification I had wanted to see what all y'all thought on that. Thanks for the input.
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Look at the shear number of fleet sales. There are literally thousands of Super Duties & E-series both on the road and in areas like mine & construction sites. All of them deployed as maintenance/service trucks, tow trucks, ambulances, etc. Those are the folks that rely on the hour meter for their maintenance scheduling.
On a side note, if you are buying used, you can bounce the engine hours against the mileage to see if that mileage was predominantly city or highway....and maybe get a feel for whether or not the vehicle has spent a lot of time idling.
On a side note, if you are buying used, you can bounce the engine hours against the mileage to see if that mileage was predominantly city or highway....and maybe get a feel for whether or not the vehicle has spent a lot of time idling.
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Originally Posted by Deluxe05
Look at the shear number of fleet sales. There are literally thousands of Super Duties & E-series both on the road and in areas like mine & construction sites. All of them deployed as maintenance/service trucks, tow trucks, ambulances, etc. Those are the folks that rely on the hour meter for their maintenance scheduling.
I was meaning the person with the small business(although I should have expressed that in my original post) with one or two trucks etc. Although, the construction people that I have talked to in this area(unfortunately they are tearing up the road to the front entrance to my farm so that leads to some adventures for me) don't use their trucks for that purpose they use the off road earth moving equipment or their tractors(but that could just be the area that I'm in) and that's why they just do the regular mileage maintance, but I was thinking of that very thing was I was talking to them.
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What amazes me is that the ambulances that I deal with (7.3L and 6.0L) at work which run hard out of the gate, idle for long periods of time, are never allowed to cool down before shut off and are on the terrible E-series chassis still run at 150K miles with relatively minimal break downs..... They might be a bit detuned but still.... Other than a well used engine block heater, they lead a rough life...
Last edited by wrangler76; Feb 3, 2008 at 01:29 PM. Reason: incomplete thought.....
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Originally Posted by wrangler76
What amazes me is that the ambulances that I deal with (7.3L and 6.0L) at work which run hard out of the gate, idle for long periods of time, are never allowed to cool down before shut off and are on the terrible E-series chassis still run at 150K miles with relatively minimal break downs..... The might be a bit detuned but still....
