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Re: Ford finally releases specs for F-150 3.0L diesel
ShinerBock wrote: Well that is a bummer, it has a timing belt instead of gear driven. Car & Driver wrote: ...Ford is calling for 150,000-mile service intervals on the timing belt... 2018 Ford F-150 Diesel: The Best-Selling Pickup Gets a Power Stroke They automatically lost me right there. I have a vehicle right now that's staring at a 100,000 mile timing belt change at $1K or so. Never again will I buy anything that has a timing belt. I don't care if they hardly ever break, I'm not buying something that's going to require a scheduled high dollar maintenance. Most manufacturers got rid of timing belts 10-15 years ago, it's ridiculous that Ford is marketing a new engine with one.368Views0likes0CommentsRe: 4 wheel drive
danrclem wrote: lawrosa wrote: coming back from florida to NJ we got off track in WV. GPS was wrong. Well yellow line in road disappeared. Then road narrowed and turned to dirt. had to turn around. But 50 ft of truck and trailer all I found was a sloped small field off the right side of road.. I carefully backed the trailer down the slope and tried to keep in straight line. I had to go down far enough till truck nose cleared fence on other side. Put in drive and tires started spinning immediately. Chevy has a locker rear. Eased on gas some and locker en-gauged but wheels started digging in. Trying to get 13000 lbs moving up an incline on grass just wasn't happening. Looked at my wife, and she looked at me and said "well?" I reached my hand down by the floor, pulled back on the lever, I gave to truck a little gas. And away we went. Straightened out, threw it back in 2wd and continued are trip. Wife says " I wonder what that would of cost to have a tow find us and get us out?" I said , " which one of us was going to walk the 2 or 3 miles to the one house we saw, or till we got a cell signal? ( Non existent in WV ) And , we are from NJ and I am not sure they would Not take kindly to knocking on their door." " And which one of us would feel safe enough to stay with the kids?" Times like that you wish you had a gun. ( I dont own any guns) As a matter of fact heres the house.. My wife took a pic as we were coming back out. More confederate flags then you can shake a stick at!!!!! And an OUTHOUSE!!!! With that said, Ive always had 4x4 in my trucks. If I need it once it pays for itself...period. I'd feel safer there than I would in certain spots of quite a few big cities. Gotta love the thought process of people from the northeast. I'd feel safer there than any spot in ANY city in New Jersey. Maybe the poster is afraid they might invite him in for dinner and they'd not have bagels or pastrami.351Views0likes0CommentsRe: 4 wheel drive
BB_TX wrote: I really don't understand these diesel and grass problem comments. I recently sold 24 acres of sloping pasture I owned. Drove my two different F350 diesels all over it wet and dry and never used 4x4 unless it was sloppy muddy. Wet grass never a problem. I live in the country in central Mississippi. I special ordered my 98 Dodge 2500 diesel when I was younger and poorer and specified 2WD because I didn't think I'd ever need it. In the years since I've been stuck in my yard on wet grass so many times that the front air dam off is off of it from the chain I use to hook my tractor to it pull it out. During the winter it'll rain so much around here that it won't dry out for several months, I know that if I need to move one of my trailers I'll just have to pull the truck with the tractor, otherwise the choice is not to use it for months. I've been stuck on wet grass dozens if not hundreds of times, and this is with all terrain tires on the back and a limited slip differential. Last year I bought a new Tundra, I didn't even think of not getting 4x4. I've cussed 2WD so many times that at 48 years old there's no way I'm going through that any more. Life's too short for that BS. NEVER again will I buy a truck without 4WD.417Views0likes0CommentsRe: CAFE stds on the chopping block
Norway is a country of 5 million people and has most of their population living in a few urban centers unlike the U.S. They are also very wealthy because of their oil exports (a little bit of irony there) so they can afford eccentricities like EV's. There's also the SLOT effect as a poster mentioned earlier. Everyone things EV's are non-polluting which is absolutely not the case, they just move the pollution site somewhere down the chain. The electricity has to be generated somewhere, if that's done by a coal plant then there's your carbon dioxide source. Nuclear would be the most non-polluting but that causes most greenies to break out in hives. There's also the energy and pollution involved in making the batteries for them, there's a lot of nasty pollution issues involved in manufacturing batteries. All in all EV's really aren't practical now for most of the world and they aren't as non-polluting as the EV proponents make them out to be. Maybe one day they'll be more practical, but it's going to take significant technology improvements for them to become mainstream in the U.S.457Views0likes0CommentsRe: 4WD vs 2WD
My 99 dodge diesel is 2wd, I bought it that way because at the time I was a starving marine and pinching pennies. I did spring for the limited slip differential, which contrary to what many posters think does almost nothing to keep you from getting stuck. It's nowhere close to a substitute for 4wd. I now live in a rural area on some acreage and cannot move the truck around my yard much of the year because it will get stuck on wet grass. Right now it's sitting on grass next to my barn, it rained today and if I were to try and move it I'd have to pull it with my tractor, which I've done numerous times before. This truck is now relegated to farm duties due to age & mileage and I have a year old tundra as my main pickup. It's a 4x4 and I'm able to drive it around my place at will. I do a lot of hunting and the 2wd dodge kept me from a lot of places I'd have been able to reach with a 4wd pickup. I was pretty much limited to pavement any time there was any moisture in the ground, which there usually is during hunting season. It really limited me and I can remember multiple times I had to be pulled out by hunting buds in their 4x4's. Any pickup I buy from here on out will by 4x4, 2wd won't even be a consideration. I've done that and the PITA that is getting stuck in the middle of nowhere isn't worth the extra money for 4x4. Life's too short to put up with the hassle of constantly getting stuck.618Views0likes0CommentsRe: 6.7 cummins oil/fuel filter where to buy
Sinbadman5024 wrote: This is great if your "local Cummins place" is close. Mine is an 80 mile round trip. Not actually a savings for me considering time and mileage. That is one reason why everyone doesn't do this. Less expensive for me to buy online and have it shipped straight to my house. I don't make a special trip to get them, I stop by the cummins dealer when I'm in the neighborhood and buy several filters when I'm there. It's not too hard to figure out that I've got an oil change coming up in the next couple of months and swing in when I pass by. The fleetguard oil filters are shrink wrapped in plastic so it's not like they're going to go bad sitting on the shelf in my shop. If you're anywhere near an interstate there's always going to be a trucking place that handles fleetguard filters. For those that aren't able to think a few weeks in advance and pick them up when passing by there's always Fedex and UPS overnight services.611Views0likes0CommentsRe: 6.7 cummins oil/fuel filter where to buy
rhagfo wrote: I get my Fleetgaurd oil and fuel filters direct from local Cummins parts house! This!^^^ I'm surprised everyone doesn't do this, I've bought mine from the local cummins place since I first bought my truck 15 years ago. All I've ever used on it have been fleetguard stratapore filters, both oil and fuel. Just look up the right number and go to the cummins dealer. Reasonable prices, quick, and no shipping charges. For the OP his truck will take the LF16035 fleetguard stratapore oil filter and FS53000 for the fuel filter. The last time I bought filters from my cummins dealer they were significantly cheaper than I could get off of amazon.610Views0likes0Comments
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