Ford E350 V10 shifting
I am curious about others experience with the Ford vehicles when in mountains. Our Phoenix Cruisr 2350 is pulling a Jeep Cherokee which weighs about 4044 curb pounds. I am surprised how the V10 se...
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Golden_HVAC wrote:
Trying to keep the RPM's around 2,500 - 3000 is not letting the engine work very hard. 3,600 is never going to damage even the older big V8's with pushrods. The overhead cams can take 4,000 - 5,000 RPM's because they will not have pushrod "Float" - like the older V8's.
And the piston of the 6.8L is so much smaller than my 460" V8 (7.5L with 8 cylinders, so nearly 1 liter per cylinder). The V10 is only 0.68 liters per cylinder, and the pistons stroke is very short, so higher RPM's are OK.
Fred.
I so wished I understood what you just said.
Gary Haupt
