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4-6 month was quoted here too.

I was waffling Tremor or Longbed right up to just making the final decision. More fuel tank was tempting. But I’ve been running Ram short beds for so long and rarely want more.
 
I'm envious of all of you. I really want a CC 7.3 tremor. I think I'd enjoy it less after having to spend that much cash on one. I was brought up to think never spend more than 1/4 yr pay on a car. I do well but not 400k well :laughing:

I look forward to living vicariously through those of you who get new toys
 
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jimbo92 said:
It would be 10 feet tall due to the way the chassis is shaped to accommodate IRS/IFS
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:smokin:
 
well they moved my build date to the 21st of the month, it was the 14th. still way faster than a bunch of others I heard about.
 
I thought it was odd they decided to reuse the 7.3 name for a gas engine over the 460. I guess idiots wouldn't know what to do with cubic inch numbers :homer:
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I thought it was odd they decided to reuse the 7.3 name for a gas engine over the 460. I guess idiots wouldn't know what to do with cubic inch numbers :homer:
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White collar engineering organizations are dominated by soy drinking cucks these days. It should be no surprise that everyone uses metric.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I thought it was odd they decided to reuse the 7.3 name for a gas engine over the 460. I guess idiots wouldn't know what to do with cubic inch numbers :homer:
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They must confuse like they did with the 5.0....

Cubic inches are the devil. Naming rear axles after the metric size of the ring gear is the way of the future.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I thought it was odd they decided to reuse the 7.3 name for a gas engine over the 460. I guess idiots wouldn't know what to do with cubic inch numbers :homer:
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Besides your conversion being off, the engineering dept said they came up with a power requirement first and worked backwards to determine the rest of the engine... 7.3 is just where everything ended up happy. Remember this thing is designed to run stoich ALWAYS.
 
I honestly figured they wanted the 7.3 name and worked around it. Id Imagine it would have been easy to bump it up to a 460 if they wanted to right off the batt.
 
Found out the other day one of my employees ran 5 gallons of diesel through one. It was diluted pretty quickly so less than 10%, was my fault i forgot I had put some in a red can. He said it didn't trigger any warning lights or notice anything different.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I honestly figured they wanted the 7.3 name and worked around it. Id Imagine it would have been easy to bump it up to a 460 if they wanted to right off the batt.
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Or they should’ve gone straight to 8.3L.

Steal the crown from Cadillac’s 8.2L (500cuin)
 
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Pocahontas said:
Found out the other day one of my employees ran 5 gallons of diesel through one. It was diluted pretty quickly so less than 10%, was my fault i forgot I had put some in a red can. He said it didn't trigger any warning lights or notice anything different.
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Twice I've heard anecdotes about this happening in beaters and blowing the motors soon after
"Gets past the rings and dilutes the errill"

Don't know how true it is, but if it was mine, I'd probably do an errill change just to make sure
 
Projectjunkie said:
Twice I've heard anecdotes about this happening in beaters and blowing the motors soon after
"Gets past the rings and dilutes the errill"

Don't know how true it is, but if it was mine, I'd probably do an errill change just to make sure
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This happened back in late Nov/December, I try and go through all the cans of non ethanol twice a year. It has since been changed(a few weeks after the incident) but I appreciate the heads up.
 
Pocahontas said:
Found out the other day one of my employees ran 5 gallons of diesel through one. It was diluted pretty quickly so less than 10%, was my fault i forgot I had put some in a red can. He said it didn't trigger any warning lights or notice anything different.
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I did the opposite in a diesel ford. Put 20 gallons of gas in before i realized. Siphoned 15 gallons of mix out (all i had cans for) and topped of with diesel. Never had an issue
 
Am I the only one who's hesitant to dump fuel cans into newer vehicles? I just feel like there is more chance for contaminates to get to the sensative and expensive shit. Then again, the filters should be better too.
 
I wound up trading my 2014 LML with a cracked piston in on a 2020 F250 with a 7.3L. I'm happy with the switch. The 7.3L gets half the fuel economy that the LML used to, but the smiles per gallon are much higher every time I stomp my foot down and hear that big block sing.

I'm liking the Ford truck a fair bit more than the GMT900 as well. Feels much better built.
 
 
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