Finally decided to get myself a daily driver/tow truck. After nearly 2 months of looking for the perfect one, I found it, flew out to San Diego to buy it, and drove it back home to Vegas.
Pics:http://www.saskin.net/~matt/pics/excursion
Details:2001 Ford Excursion Limited7.3 Liter Powerstroke Diesel4x4Burgundy/Gold, Tan leather interior60K miles
The thing is an absolute beast. Set cruise control at 75 on the way home to vegas and never once touched the gas. Made the uphills through the mountain passes without even changing RPM's, the sucker just loaded up, you hear the turbo spool up, and it just goooooes
Ended up getting about 17.8mpg on it's first fill-up (461 miles from san diego to LA for work, then back to vegas). I figure I can eek out a few more MPG by inflating the tires a bit more (they're at about 40psi, a bit on the low side right now), and doing the usual tune up stuff (oil change, filter change, etc...)
It'll be stock for quite a long time, but the eventual list is:-bling bling stereo setup -4" turbo back exhaust-gauge setup (boost, egt, transmission temp)-some sort of chip/programmer
~matt
bought a new truck
Re: bought a new truck (msaskin)
those 7.3's are awesome, my uncle has a 3/4 ton ford extended cab with 6spd manual, he always gets over 20mpg even loaded.
That 40lbs seems kinda high, isn't is less pressure and more volume for bigger tires
That 40lbs seems kinda high, isn't is less pressure and more volume for bigger tires
Re: bought a new truck (msaskin)
Excellent purchase. My gramps just traded his old exped. in for one, quite fun.
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Re: bought a new truck (JDMaholic)
JDMaholic, that's what I thought too, however after doing some reading:Ford recommends 50psi front, 55psi rear for diesel 4x4 excursions. Slightly lower pressures (such as the 40 i'm running) will give increased ride comfort at a cost of some fuel economy. Running the higher pressure is basically mandatory when towing anything.
~matt
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Re: bought a new truck (msaskin)
Huh, never heard that before, maybe I'll go check the recomended on my Jeep.
Re: bought a new truck (msaskin)
That thing is a BEAST! How much did ya get for?
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Re: bought a new truck (base9se)
All said and done, right around $27K. It's a bit more than I wanted to pay, but the interest rate ended up being great for financing it out, and I was willing to spend a bit more than I had seen other similar ones go for for a few reasons-it's got the remainder of a 6yr/100K mile premium (everything covered) ford warranty-it's clean as hell-full service records. the truck was originally sold by the dealer I bought it from to a couple that lived in the area and was ALWAYS serviced (oil changes, etc.) by the same dealership.base9se wrote:That thing is a BEAST! How much did ya get for?
~matt