Originally Posted By: ProStreetCamaro
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
That's unfortunate. We've had nothing but great luck with ours. Our first Expy I think had 3.73's. This new one I believe has 3.27's. Pretty big difference. The first one may even have had 4.11's.
The Chev's I'm taking about would have had the equivalent of 3.08's or something in the back. NOT good gears for towing AT ALL. A good friend of mine is a manager of a trailer park and one of the work trucks is a '98 Vortec 1500 with a 305. Thing has LOTS of jammo in the upper RPM range, but it's geared to be a highway truck and you put ANY weight behind it and it's an absolute dog.
That '98 of yours would have towed VERY well given the gearing.
If that F-250 is the 6.0L (which it sounds like it is) then I understand. Ford dropped the ball on that one. They have been a real headache for Ford which is why apparently they are working on a new in-house diesel from Ford Germany to replace the International motors they are currently using. The VT365 is apparently a good motor in International trim, but when the programming was changed (by Ford) for use in a pickup, things did not go well. It's strange, but some of the trucks of this series are problem-free, while others are plagued with issues.
In contrast, the old DT444 (7.3L) was often regarded as bulletproof, whereas the GM diesels of the era were garbage.
And then there's the Cummins in the Dodge
Off-topic, but I was at the truck and tractor pulls yesterday. It was interesting the turn-out.
First class was gas trucks. There were a LOT of Chevies, at least 3/4 of the field. There were two Ford's, a 1983 long-box crew cab, and a 1981 F-250 4x4 short-box flairside with, from what I understand, a 460 in it. There were also two Dodges, one of the newer body style, and an old girl with a built smallblock that developed some problems and was losing several litres of oil per run.
1st place, with a full pull under it's belt was the '81 F-250 shortbox. Thing was a monster.
2nd place was a yellow 1983 Chevy regular cab, it worked VERY well. Unfortunately, it grenaded in the "pull-off" with the F-250, something made a HUGE bang, and then the starter dropped off into the wheel well and they were picking up large chunks of bellhousing and block off the track as well as the entire flexplate. I'm not sure what let go.
3rd place was the 1983 Ford, and 4th, 5th and 6th were Chevies. The Dodges didn't place, and neither did the two Toyotas that entered, one being a new (2008) Tundra, another a 98 Tundra.
Then we get to Diesel.
There were three Fords and the rest were all Dodges; not a single GM truck.
1st place went to a black regular cab 4x4 Dodge.
2nd place went to a white F-250 4x4 extenda-cab long-box. This was somebody's work truck.
Both trucks made a number of full pulls but the F-250 got major wheel-hop in the pull-offs and had to let off, losing by a couple of feet.
3rd was another Dodge, 4th was some random Harley Davidson F-350 dually, 4th was a Dodge dually....etc.
I was surprised not to see a single Duramax.
Today they are having the mud bogs. A couple of buddies of mine are trailering in their Toyota field truck for fun
I'm waiting to hear how it does! LOL!
That sounds like alot of fun. A friend of mine has a dodge with the cummins that he has setup to pull with. Everything is upgraded on it. On the dyno it made something like 650hp and 1200 ft/lbs of torque. I have been meaning to go watch one day but most of the pulls he goes to is over an hour away.
Here is our current expedition. I know somebody would think i was full of it when i say we had all these problems with fords so i figured i would post a picture of what we have now. This one has electrical gremlins that nobody can figure out. They even had a ford engineer come in to try and find it and he had no luck. It will kick itself into 4X4 for no reason every once in a while. The auto dimming rear view stays dim all the time. Once in a while when sitting at a light the truck will try to go on its own and you have to hold the brake hard to keep it from going. I think it is possesed.
Sharp looking truck, it's a shame about the problems
Both of ours have been white Eddie Bauer models with the tan interior. Other than abysmal gas mileage on the first one, they have both been problem-free.
By the way, I guess the mud bog sucked. NOBODY got stuck!!!