Ford 7.3L GASSER rumor confirmed
Says TFL Truck. No word on hp or tq.
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Slowmover wrote:
The trailer you can pass on to your children after a quarter-century of use and doesn’t need 400hp to get down the road makes a lot more sense than caring about pickups in oilfield or mining camp use.
You can get than in an Airstream. Of course, you pay for it in initial cost and relative lack of interior space. It's what I would like to have some day to pull with my low-powered (by today's standards) 2000 F250. Of course, I have to convince the DW of that! ;)- When the Cummins was turbocharged in the ‘90s, travel trailer towing saw a new world open up: reasonable fuel economy & potentially longer vehicle life. And the fuel was cheaper.
That all lasts up until about 2007.
Would a new gasser be nice? Sure. But better-built & designed travel trailers are where it’s at. The tow vehicles are leaps and bounds ahead of a typical 1997 trailer as to needed changes from that point in time.
The trailer you can pass on to your children after a quarter-century of use and doesn’t need 400hp to get down the road makes a lot more sense than caring about pickups in oilfield or mining camp use.
Still, there wasn’t anything like watching the vacuum gauge & tach to perfectly time the 3-2 downshift and listen to the ThermoQuads gigantic secondaries come on strong, the 440-3 still pulling up Wolf Creek as the Fords & Chevys waited for the wreckers to get them over the top.
Or, make it a steam locomotive or air-cooled radial. Some things we created were alive. The carbureted big blocks were the last of that.
Who cares what’s under the hood any more except that it is appropriate to the job, and affordable to run. It’s slave to computers, not man. A bean counters world, regulated by electricity.
The sound & sight of a 318 Jimmy, stacks afire, stair-stepping a mountain grade was part of the adventure, once. He had to know what he was doing, no less than the pilot or rail engineer.
Man & machine. A dance. Or, song. You choose. (“ . . it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, . . . . “)
No less impressive than Nature was a man’s determination to get himself and others to a new place.
I miss that. More than I can say.
. - "30 gigs of data"? LMAO! Windows 10 in it's entirety is less than 8 gigs on a Bootable drive.
wing_zealot wrote:
So send the data, let me worry about viewing it.
Give me a link to a share drive that can hold at least 30 gigs of data(guesstimating) and someway to pay me for the hours I will have to spend pulling the data and it is yours.dodge guy wrote:
Did I miss fall? This reads like a winter time thread!
Oh my aching head!
I think we have gone from summer to winter blahs.....oh yeah!
Marty- I wonder how this new 7.3 gas engine is going to compare to the old 6.8 gas engine (V-10). I'm actually quite happy with the 6.8 in our E450 class C motorhome. Gearing is part of the reason, because it appears to be geared quite low (4.88?). But still, it feels like a good solid engine.
If the new 7.3 gas engine is even better than the old 6.8 gas engine Ford is going to have a whole new market for it in their RV chassis' It is going to be interesting to see what the new engine is like. - IT'S BLACK......NO IT'S WHITE......you guys are hilarious.
- Did I miss fall? This reads like a winter time thread!
- So send the data, let me worry about viewing it.
