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Mar 20, 2008 | 01:12 PM

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Nope I camp in NJ, PA & MD most of the time but I do plan on heading up to Lake George this year so ya never know.

Yep I am on RV.net my handle is"cenley", and your camper will be more than 7000lbs easily after you get it loaded.

Will probably have a TW of arounf 1000-1200lbs. I think aklim may have been referring to the 03/04 6.0 motors when he said they were not the greatest. Never heard of piston slap in the V-10 motor either. Also I believe by 03/04 models the spark plug spitting was a thing of the past with the head redesign.

Good luck I hope you enjoy your new TT & Excursion.

Rc

The heads were redesigned in 02 giving the heads more threads. The pistons shooting out where from 99 to 01. BUT even though they shot pistons, it was very rare and basically happend when u changed ur plugs and didnt tightn them to spec torque. Althought there where those rare cases of plugs randomly shooting out.

Mar 20, 2008 | 01:40 PM

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Ahhh... yes.. crossing my streams there with GM on the piston slap... early V10s and 5.4 had spark plug thread issues.

Does anyone here believe it necessary to get an extended powertrain warranty on one of these?

I had one on a Tahoe that I used to the tune of $10,000 in transmissions and rear ends... worked out well for me on that one!!!

Mar 20, 2008 | 02:11 PM

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I bought the extended Ford warranty, 3yr 36,000 mile bumper to bumper. Lets see so far: 2 dvd repairs and then the final replacement. 4 Balljoints, alignment, frt stab links, rear leaf springs. I would say I am ahead of the game already, I happen to work for a company that owns a few Ford dealers so I got the warranty at cost.

Rc

Mar 20, 2008 | 03:11 PM

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RC racer, whyd u have to replace ur leafs?

Mar 20, 2008 | 03:48 PM

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Oof.. the deal was too good to be true.

After I mentioned full disclosure, and I wanted the dealer to take it to their body shop to tell me if it had been painted, he came back a couple hours later telling me that the ENTIRE passenger side was painted... yet the carfax came up clean.

Now for the interesting part, at another one of their branches... in the same town... they have an identical Ex with 48K miles and it's listed at 22K. You can't tell me that they didn't know that the one they were trying to sell me was trashed at one point... and for that amount of body work done without being claimed on insurance, I would be led to assume that they are the ones that painted it.

I wouldn't mind this smoke-blowing except for the fact that I would be driving 5 hours to trade my Expy in for this thing.

There's one thing I'm ready to do when a deal is not right... walk away.

I'll keep looking. If gas gets higher, the deals on these will only get better!!!

Mar 20, 2008 | 04:30 PM

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That's too bad because it sounded like a great deal. Are dealers obligated to disclose all known accidents or bodywork for a vehicle they are selling?

Mar 20, 2008 | 04:38 PM

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Thats too bad. Sounds like you want a V10, if you want to look at a diesel there is an 04 limited at H&L in Auburn. Pirro Bros in Skaneateles has a X also, not sure what powertrain though. Good luck hunting!

Mar 21, 2008 | 07:01 AM

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RC racer, whyd u have to replace ur leafs?

Funny story actually...hehehe. I had a clunking noise that came from the rear when coming to a slooow stop or accelerating from a stop. After researching here and on other Ford forums I came to the conclusion that I needed the slip joint lubed. I printed out the TSB for the super duty that covers this procedure and took it in to the dealer for service. I showed them the TSB and they kind of blew me off saying they will diag the problem, I said okay cool. So after they put new ball joints in stab links & rear leaf springs they called me to come pick it up. Sure enough as soon as I drove the truck it still clunked so I grabbed the Svr Mgr and the tech and we went for a ride. The tech brought it back into the shop dropped the driveshaft and lubed the front slip joint and we took another drive. Guess what.... the noise was gone!! So for my $100 deductible I think I did okay, the truck had about 52k on it then so I was glad they did the BJ's but the other stuff was not needed I am sure.

Rc