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Originally Posted by dsroka80504
You might want to check your facts. Just spent a few hours talking with the ford powertrain engineers at the Detroit auto show. This is the most widely tested motor they have ever launched. It has spent over a year in Alaska and Arizona desert in all sorts of extreme environments around the clock. That doesn't even begin to address the lab testing on extreme temperatures that are far beyond what the truck will ever see. I am not going to run through all the things he shared. But this motor has been 3-4 years in the making.
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Show me ONE JUST ONE 6.7 chassis cab being tested in the field. That's all I'm asking. FL&P only has pickups for testing. When ford spoke with us about a test mule they stated "we don't test with chassis cabs". It's their deal. I'm not saying they don't test it but, it's not the same. Try having a guy crank his truck up at 5:30 am (outside temp is 80* humidity is 95%), drives to work, 19,500 lbs loaded with a work body and crane/boom. Goes to the jobsite, it's now say 6 or 7 am, temps climbing to 100*s and 90% humidity. Truck is running at high idle with the PTO engaged running the boom for 4 or 5 hours, still hot, Tech takes 30 min lunch, is he gonna shut the A/C off? nope. Now it's about 3 or 4 PM (when the economy is good sometimes it 6 or 7 or even later into the night), tech packs up tools, folds up boom, shuts PTO off and heads for home but first he's got to run through sugar sand, mud and muck for 3 or 4 miles 4 low, 1st or 2nd gear (6.4 and 6.0 can't turn the 19.5s over in 4 high which is needed to clean the treads and keep traction). Keep in mind the trans is still hot from the PTO running. Now he's on the highway in a few more miles running 75+ mph back to his house. I can bet that every time he's on the go peddle it's 100% throttle to at least 50 mph.
Do you understand my point to testing with chassis cabs? Just look at the halliburton 6.0 Ford shows, Crew Cab 4x4 with a service body and tandem axle gooseneck. That's the way testing should be conducted. You can not simulate that work in a lab.
