Are there no experts that sell trucks?
Why do I know more about the trucks than the salesman? We spoke to a supposed truck "expert" at our local Ford dealer, and he gave me the wrong payload number. Just a word of caution to those of...
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Terryallan wrote:My 7.3L Ford's starting instructions were to turn the key, and wait until the 'glow plug' light went out. Yes, it will start without doing that (I did it once by mistake), but why does the owner manual say to do that?2oldman wrote:OK I'll bite. Why wouldn't it start?
Even tow truck drivers don't have a clue about diesels. When a driver got in mine he jumped in and tried to start it immediately.
My current truck, an 8.3L Cummins, will not start at all until it finishes a 'boot up' of the instruments. And if you start it before the intake heater is finished, it will shake like an ice crusher.
