10K is all can I tow without overloading my trailer. I would be more than happy to hitch up to anything the truck is capable of if somebody else was to provide the trailer. An F350 will be overloaded long before either a V10 or PSD will be.

40,000 lbs up a 10 mile grade, I don't think either one of us would make it to the top.
How steep are you talking about?

 

I'll do it and time the both of us. I've got the 6.7L now :-)

 

Now that's funny right there, even if you do drive a Chevy, painful but funny.

 

Huh???

Never said that, my new 6.7 is a beast. Hope the dealer has the re-flash tomorrow then it will be time to unleash the beast at the next pull.

 

This is what I called BS on, in response to me asking when a v10 has outpulled a 6.4. You say your 2v v10 would outpull the 6.4 and every diesel there except for one without a tuner.

Now my mom told me not to believe everything I read, I think momma is right again. Your truck is the devil! (Sorry, just watched the waterboy. LOL )

 

he forgot to mention there was only one other truck there

 

Nope I understood. I'm just saying my old V10 pulled through the mountains at the legal speed limit. It could even accelerate up the mountains if I floored it and kicked it down to 3rd gear. All I'm saying is the V10 can do it at the speed limit of 70 mph. It might get there slower, it WILL consume more fuel, might rev like mad, but it will do it. I really wasn't arguing with you, just stating it can be done. I even agree that if you are doing that on a consistent basis, the V10 is probably not the best choice.

As for over loading, I never overloaded my F250. I have an old Chevy 3500 crew cab dually that takes that kind of punishment back at the farm. I'm not a fan of Chevy, but it's what we have. My first truck was a Chevy and I bent the frame on it, cracked the leaf springs, and the cab mounts rusted away; it was only a 1/2 ton though. But I still take a Chevy over Dodge...

 

We bought the truck last summer. It was a recovered theft vehicle. When we test drove it the engine sounded fine and it had plenty of power
but a few days later I checked the oil and it didn't even register on the dipstick it was so low. I filled it and check it a day later and it was low again. Not as low as before but still low. Over the next few months I monitored it and the engine would burn through about 1 QT every 100 miles. Yes 100 miles. Never had any blue smoke except on start up occasionally. It finally drowned itself the day after Thanksgiving while I was helping my brother move. 2.5 Qts in under 50 miles. When my mechanic torn into it he said cylinders 5 and 10 were just pumping the oil into the exhaust manifold. The truck itself has some dents and dings and a whole lot of rocky mountain pin-stripping so whoever stole it had ALOT of fun in it
before it was recovered.


The truck has been prefect since the new engine. I know it’s nothing compared to the 8k+ lbs you guys are hauling but we went on a campingtrip a few weeks ago towing a medium sized tent trailer. We can upon a fairly good grade, probably 4-6% and there was a full-size Nissan SUV
pulling a little trailer with two 4-wheelers next to us. I dropped it down to 4th and pulled away from the Nissan as he was slowing down going up the
grade. I looked over at my wife with a big grin and said “I love this truck”. She just shook her head and said “you’re in idiot”. Yeah, an idiot in
love with his truck. LOL Thanks Ford.

 

Okay... sorry but I'm curious to know. Did you end up saving money over buying a non-theft recovery truck? I ask because I have often considered doing it, and what you got was probably about as bad as it gets.

Good thing you didn't go for a PSD, that would have been tragic to replace the engine.

 

Just from what I've seen I'd never buy a recovered (repo'd) truck. Typically the owner knows he/she is over their head on it and do zero PM's on the vehicle until it is taken back. I'd never buy one, especially in the PSD variety. That's just MY opinion though.

 

You need to read better, They said it was a THEFT recovery, not a repo.....

 

Recovered THEFT vehicle......

 

It was actually a theft recovery not a repo. Like I said we bought it last summer. It’s the ’01 in my signature. XLT crew cab 4x4. It had 89k miles when we bought it. The interior is perfect. Power door locks didn’t work but everything else did - PW, ESOF 4x4. I have since fixed the door locks thanks to FTE!!! The outside was pretty beat up. The person I bought the truck from was the one that actually bought it from the theft auction. I don’t know what he paid for it but he decided to put a new bed on. We paid $7000 for it.


I looked up some trucks in my area (SLC, UT) today and there are two 2002 with about the same mileage. One is $15k, supercrew, and the other is $21k for a crew cab. With the new engine I’m in it $12k so we didn’t save as much as I we were hoping but we’re very happy with the truck now.
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I bought one of my Mustangs that way and saved a ton on it. I got a 91 GT with about 100k miles for $500. They had stolen the hood, rear bumper cover, radiator, upper/lower intake and all of the pulleys. Those were all parts I was going to replace anyways, so it saved me some time having to take them off You can find some really good deals on them if you look hard enough, but there a lot of them that end up costing more than if you just bought a non theft recovery one for regular price.

 

Yeah, repo's are bad idea. I was thinking more like stolen, someone ripped off the radio and maybe a few other items inside and left it. Obviously this would be a cheaper vehicle as breaking a window and taking the radio out of a $50k truck won't do much to it's value.