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Do i want a V10 superduty?

After owning one as a stand in while I did a shit ton of work to.my '04 6.0 Super Pooper I can say I will never own another one. Reliable? Yes it was. I did plugs after it spit one out on the first drive home. No other issues with that. The overall driving experience was shit though. It is a high strung engine in a 1ton truck, which makes no sense. Towing up the mountains around here was shitty. Daily driving it was boring as fuck. I hated that truck and it wasn't due to anything other than the power delivery and the way it ran. I would rather drive my 95 non turbo IDI rollback than that one.
 
I had an 06 with the 3V and 5r110 for 10 years. It was a great truck. I had a 5 star tune which woke it up a bit and made the trans work better. 10-12 mpg unloaded. 8-10 mpg with a trailer 10k or under.
 
Blugreenformula said:
After owning one as a stand in while I did a shit ton of work to.my '04 6.0 Super Pooper I can say I will never own another one. Reliable? Yes it was. I did plugs after it spit one out on the first drive home. No other issues with that. The overall driving experience was shit though. It is a high strung engine in a 1ton truck, which makes no sense. Towing up the mountains around here was shitty. Daily driving it was boring as fuck. I hated that truck and it wasn't due to anything other than the power delivery and the way it ran. I would rather drive my 95 non turbo IDI rollback than that one.
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I have a car for driving fast.
 
Blugreenformula said:
It is a high strung engine in a 1ton truck, which makes no sense. Towing up the mountains around here was shitty.
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I wouldn't exactly call it high strung, it's not buzzing with energy and revving to the moon with the touch of the throttle. It is still a big, lumbering, heavy pickup.

It does like RPMs though. Downshift, foot to the floor, and let it eat.

Other than liking injector clatter, and the stink of diesel I cannot imagine an IDI being more enjoyable. They have like half the HP and 100 less torques than a V10
 
I think it’s a good engine, it likes revs, but I’ve been replacing manifold studs for 15 years and I’m kind of over it. Those cock goblins really not fit M10’s in there?
 
Thatg9659 said:
I think it’s a good engine, it likes revs, but I’ve been replacing manifold studs for 15 years and I’m kind of over it. Those cock goblins really not fit M10’s in there?
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my grandpa used to act all proud whenever he'd assemble something 'just barely adequate' as though that were peak engineering
maybe he was making a commentary on modern "engineers" though
I was at that age where nothing gets looked at beyond direct face value

5/16" is the tap drill size for 3/8-16, a stripped out 8mm hole is 5/16" ish
do what must be done, next time all that shit is being fuckulated
go with really long bolts with long spacers too, to give some extra flex-room rather than short bolts that snap
see that on industrial engines sometimes, long manifold bolts with long spacers
 
[486] said:
to give some extra flex-room rather than short bolts that snap
see that on industrial engines sometimes, long manifold bolts with long spacers
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I thought that was to solve access issue, but your reasoning makes more sense.
 
my only experience in one was my neighbors 2010 250 truck. we took it to town(2hrs away) with his aluminum stock trailer in tow. I wasnt impressed with it on the way there empty, but it did ok. We loaded up a dozen trees with root balls at least 2' in diameter. I have no idea what they weighed, but that truck could barely get itself up hills on the interstate. and we're not talking mountain hills, we're talking nw missouri rolling hills. it was just gutless. I made the comment to him that I could put his truck on my trailer, with his trailer still attached to his truck and pull the hills. he scoffed. until he got a ride in my truck sometime later, he says...."you may have been right". :laughing:

sure itll pull a trailer. it wont pull it well. if you can live with ok or just good enough ? then get one. I dont have the patience required to drive one. :lmao:
 
M92PV4U said:
I thought that was to solve access issue, but your reasoning makes more sense.
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2.3 Limas with the tubular manifold are set up like that. Weird how none of those those bolts break. Must be more forgotten technology.


After the manifold mess on Betty I’m reluctant to just floor it whenever or for however long like I did when the 3 years they were leaking.
 
I'm trying to get my 02 v10 back on the road

good trucks, makes fun noises with a muffler swap
 
I bought my 40ft connex from a sheriff's deputy who buys and sells them on his days off, delivery is built into his price, he stays busy. He uses a burly tilt gooseneck and a 23ish srw 6.8 v8 gas f250 4wd, he loves it. He says the power and mileage blows away the v10b truck he used to use. Ymmv

And a random 7.3 aluma duty with a 7.3 for inspiration:laughing:

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[486] said:
maybe he was making a commentary on modern "engineers" though
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The number of times I've heard engineers be all proud about "yeah we figure out how to save a bunch of money building it within an inch of it's life so we could spend all that money on this to make it look good"
 
one person said "v10a" and someone else said "v10b"

what is this, is the b model the three valve one or what
did they make a three valve one?
 
[486] said:
did they make a three valve one?
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05 and newer is 3v. No phaser bullshit though.

At least for f-series, don't know about vans or RVs.

I know they could be had in c&c trucks all the way up through the early aluminum ones, are they still making them? Or were they phased out when they started selling the 7.3.
 
[486] said:
one person said "v10a" and someone else said "v10b"

what is this, is the b model the three valve one or what
did they make a three valve one?
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There is also the C&C engines that are derated, don’t know if the designation you reference has enough info.

I do know that I horsed on both of my v10s way harder than my 6.7s. They were not bad engines, just have to get used to screaming RPMs when you would prefer the engine to lug a bit more.

That is a remembrance of the v10 trucks from 20 years ago.
 
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bolt shanks are kinda like springs if you think about it in the right way
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Torsion bars!

V10 Ford is the modern equivalent of the 400M. Drinks an extraordinary amount of gas to make no power:flipoff2:

That said, fix the plug issue on the early ones and they live a long time. Guy at work bought a V10/5sp for a farm truck with a bale stabber, kinda want it to go with my V10/5sp Dodge, which if you're gonna drink gas is a better trade-off, gas to power, so long as the oil changes were kept up, which basically none of them were:laughing:. Fucking factory minivan oil filter, I run the old big Ford/Dodge filter on it now. Factory filter probably went into bypass at 2,001 miles:shaking:

Lots of the veternarians use the Ford V10s around here, idle times are horrendous but they always start no matter the weather and don't leave them stranded. Local vet had an early one that his 445k before he retired. Oil changes and spark plugs was about all he ever did. Ford sells them for industrial use too, several genset manufacturers utilize them.


Move over Audi, :usa:v10 moar betterer:lmao:
 
IowaOffRoad

I have installed a few Cat badged ford v10 propane gensets. I think on LPG, they were around 210hp. Smooth running engines with all the cat controls on them.
 
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