What have you done to your powerstroke today?

drunk on diesel · Sep 8, 2014

cam91 said:
Yea there goes 16k, but car and truck both paid off next year, I'll buy a new bike, and then everything towards a house so I can leave this job

yikes, I think I'd just buy a different truck!

Pigman · Sep 8, 2014

Just found this thread! This is a picture from a couple months ago. Loaded the bed 3 times with 60 bags of feed (3000lbs) each time.

Truck handled it fine...so I thought. Was working under the truck a couple weeks later and noticed a cut on the backside of one of my tires. Checked all 4 tires and only the back two were significantly damaged. Now I'm not sure if putting that much weight in the bed is what caused it but I doubt it helped! Wound up getting Nitto Trail Grapplers a few weeks ago.

And this is what happens when you drive across a muddy tank dam with BFG All-Terrains. Tried pulling him out with the tractor but the truck ended up sliding farther down the hill and actually began to pull the tractor down with it. Chained both the tractor and the truck to trees on the other side of the road and called a wrecker. Wrecker showed up at midnight, hooked his truck up to a tree with a come-along, hooked a winch up to the truck and pulled him right out. There were a few times where the truck came really close to flipping over and rolling down a 40ft hill. Luckily it just had some body damage and no one was hurt. It could've been a lot worse. Unfortunately this is the only picture I have and it doesn't do any justice to the situation. You can't tell from the picture but that hill is STEEP!

Pigman · Sep 8, 2014

These are some pictures I took this past weekend. I limited myself to only putting TWENTY bags of feed in the bed this time. I don't want to risk hurting my brand new tires lol. Getting ready to get some new tuning, bumpers, intake, injectors, turbo, headstuds, pushrods, and valve springs here in the next few months!! 2014-15 is gonna be a big (expensive) year for my girl!

ToMang07 · Sep 8, 2014

I'd add tailights to that list, lol

RSK · Sep 8, 2014

Pigman said:
These are some pictures I took this past weekend. I limited myself to only putting TWENTY bags of feed in the bed this time. I don't want to risk hurting my brand new tires lol. Getting ready to get some new tuning, bumpers, intake, injectors, turbo, headstuds, pushrods, and valve springs here in the next few months!! 2014-15 is gonna be a big (expensive) year for my girl!

new tires look nice, I woulda done 80 bags personally, not gonna hurt the new tires... lol they're load range E tires they can handle it...no issues.

Pigman · Sep 8, 2014

ToMang07 said:
I'd add tailights to that list, lol

Lol I knew someone was gonna say that! The bottom hole is from me shooting it with a pellet gun when I was like 8 or 9 years old. That top hole happened a few months ago on my way home from work. A Chevy 1500 coming up behind me switched lanes and clipped my left corner and broke the taillight. Probably gonna order a new lense this week so I can get my inspection done.

lincolnlocker · Sep 8, 2014

6speedsd said:
But that'll make a man out of you. That's how I keep in shape over the winter mths. Cut, haul to the house, unload, bust, stack, reload, deliver, unload and stack again. The gym doesn't have chit on swinging a 10lb maul all day.

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for sure! good all around upper body workout.

live life full throttle

Cknox121 · Sep 8, 2014

Got the block ready to be pulled!

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Pigman · Sep 8, 2014

Cknox121 said:
Got the block ready to be pulled!

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Do you know what shops usually charge to pull a motor and put in a new one?

Cknox121 · Sep 8, 2014

No idea. I didn't want to pay one though.

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dsberman94 · Sep 8, 2014

Pigman said:
Do you know what shops usually charge to pull a motor and put in a new one?

Recently heard a quote of $1500 labor and fluids/ shop material for a dmax motor swap. Owner supplied a new motor.

RSK · Sep 8, 2014

Cknox121 said:
Got the block ready to be pulled!

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sweet!!!

lincolnlocker · Sep 8, 2014

Pigman said:
Do you know what shops usually charge to pull a motor and put in a new one?

I think its 500-800 to pull the motor.. I did it for the first time ever on a 7.3 couple weeks back.. 6 hrs by myself but now I am sure I can cut that by a couple hours cuz I was being nice and easy and neat about it.

live life full throttle

Pigman · Sep 8, 2014

lincolnlocker said:
I think its 500-800 to pull the motor.. I did it for the first time ever on a 7.3 couple weeks back.. 6 hrs by myself but now I am sure I can cut that by a couple hours cuz I was being nice and easy and neat about it.

live life full throttle

Appreciate the responses. I'm probably gonna buy a forged rod motor pretty soon and start building it up over the next few months to a year. I just don't really see a point in throwing injectors and stuff in my current motor when I could spend a few hundred more and get a completely new engine with forged rods.

hiniker88 · Sep 10, 2014

Got my no limit intake installed today.

Obsledpuller · Sep 10, 2014

Finally got truck off to paint shop!

Cknox121 · Sep 10, 2014

Motors out!

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RSK · Sep 10, 2014

Cknox121 said:
Motors out!

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lookin good! you just saved yourself 2k by pulling the cab and pulling the motor and pulling the heads and other stuff off the motor, machine shop shouldn't be more then a few thousand if they are assembling it, usually they want 1000 to put it together, including the heads and studs. that's bringing them all the parts necessary. the other thousand anything checking the block, and heads. can't much else needing to be done. i talked to one machine shop around me that does amazing work and they were very reasonable on balancing everything so i was gonna have that done too...