Your towing rigs and trailers

sixdogs · May 22, 2016

Nice looking grill guard for a total protection situation. Not much will get by that and the easy on-easy off feature very nice.

Snowback · May 22, 2016

grnspot110 said:
Thanks!

I made the grille guard myself: View attachment 469439 On/off with one long pin.

I'll second Pappy's comment! Nice looking grill guard. I have been inspired by a lot of your all's great grill protection setups and need to get to work fabricating something up for my machine too. A couple of close calls already using the grapple, so I better do it sooner than later!

3930dave · May 23, 2016

ultrarunner said:
I borrowed the 7.3 for a 800 mile trip towing a 6k trailer in one very long day.

Nothing bad to say about the truck... got on the Highway 5, set the cruise for 60... never missed a beat.

I was going to take my smaller 1/2 ton gas pickup and my neighbor came over and with his keys and said I should take his Diesel... said why go over the mountains maxed out with a 15 year old truck.

It was very nice of him and his wife as I never asked.

I help here and there when he has some tractor work... mostly leveling a pad for water tanks and such.

What goes round, comes around...... your neighbour obviously appreciated your help on his projects.

All is relative...... the 6.7 is very impressive to drive, as it's definitely up there in the Torque Wars. From a service standpoint though, I'll stick with my 7.3 - if you need to do much of anything on the 6.7, you are lifting the cab off.

Rgds, D.

TSO · May 23, 2016

I just got my 6.0L PSD back from the custom diesel shop... head stud job (full "BulletProof" now, all parts replaced and updated related to BulletProof'ing) plus new injectors all the way around. $6000 later, and I'm expecting another 100k miles with hopefully no additional major costly repairs.

Overall I really like this F450... And the 6.0L has pretty decent power, even with stock tuning. Now that I'm BulletProofed, I might finally throw that tow tune on and see if she does any better.

farm boy00 · May 23, 2016

TSO said:
I just got my 6.0L PSD back from the diesel shop... head stud job (full "BulletProof" now) plus more injectors all the way around. $6000 later, and I'm expecting another 100k miles with hopefully no additional major costly repairs.

Overall I really like this F450... And the 6.0L has pretty decent power, even with stock tuning. Now that I'm BulletProofed, I might finally throw that tow tune on and see if she does any better.

Better do the egr delete if you want a true bullet proof

TSO · May 23, 2016

Yup already done... like I said, full BulletProof (I am fully educated on the 6.0 and it's nuances)

dieselcrawler · May 23, 2016

TSO: now yer set for tunes... go for it! I run a 80hp economy tune daily on my 7.3, huge gains over stock. I've been told (no personal experience) that once the bullet proof mods are done, the 6.0's respond even better to tunes.

Do you have gauges (boost, egt, trans temp)? They go hand in hand with tunes, but you likely know that.

TSO · May 23, 2016

dieselcrawler said:
TSO: now yer set for tunes... go for it! I run a 80hp economy tune daily on my 7.3, huge gains over stock. I've been told (nobody personal experience) that once the bullet proof mods are done, the 6.0's respond even better to tunes.

Do you have gauges (boost, egt, trans temp)? A few good tunes and yer set...

Yeah I've got an SCT Tuner already, used to use it for scanning, but now I use the Torque App on a spare phone, and that works awesome! I think the stock towing tune is around 40 HP. I'll probably have a custom tune written, just in case. I'm usually towing 10k and up daily, so I want the tune for power, but still "safe" ... Hoping to keep this truck for a long time.

dieselcrawler · May 23, 2016

I've run a DP Tuner F5 chip with 40hp tow, decel/downhill, 80hp economy, and 1200 rpm hi idle tunes for nearly 10 years. Instant Switch on the fly, from any tune to another. Old school now, but works for me. Custom tunes, not generic 'superchips' type tunes.