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Post  cool40 January 8th 2016, 2:23 pm

jbozzelle wrote:If you don't want to cut the header panel to update the lights you can just swap the whole header panel from the newer truck and also swap bumpers too to get the grill to clear.  Most everything bolts on from year to year on those trucks.

Get some 4" exhaust from the turbo back, cold air intake (if you can stand the noise it'll make) and a tuner.  That'll wake it up a good bit.  What gear is in it?  Also, you may want to just bite the bullet now and put some bigger injectors in it with a matched chip.

I regret trading my 2001 7.3 F250 in when I got my F150.  Should've kept it just to tow the race car around with.  Live and learn...
I don't know about the gear yet.I gota change the oil and give it a looking over.
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Post  res0rli9 January 8th 2016, 7:24 pm

cool40 wrote:
jbozzelle wrote:If you don't want to cut the header panel to update the lights you can just swap the whole header panel from the newer truck and also swap bumpers too to get the grill to clear.  Most everything bolts on from year to year on those trucks.

Get some 4" exhaust from the turbo back, cold air intake (if you can stand the noise it'll make) and a tuner.  That'll wake it up a good bit.  What gear is in it?  Also, you may want to just bite the bullet now and put some bigger injectors in it with a matched chip.

I regret trading my 2001 7.3 F250 in when I got my F150.  Should've kept it just to tow the race car around with.  Live and learn...
I don't know about the gear yet.I gota change the oil and give it a looking over.

Change the trans fluid also

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Post  cool40 January 9th 2016, 3:21 pm

I changed it over to green oil today and it runs better already! lol! it has 3.73 gears Suspect
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Post  res0rli9 January 9th 2016, 5:05 pm

cool40 wrote:I changed it over to green oil today and it runs better already! lol! it has 3.73 gears Suspect

Well if it has the green oil its a bad MoFo

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Post  Doug Rahn January 10th 2016, 9:21 am

cool40 wrote:I changed it over to green oil today and it runs better already! lol! it has 3.73 gears Suspect

Pulling that big trailer the first upgrade I would do is change those gears to at least 4.10. I got lucky, mine came with them.
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Post  BigRigTech January 10th 2016, 9:38 am

I happen to have a 4.10 r&p here for a Dana 80 diff too. Going cheap LOL
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Post  cool40 January 10th 2016, 9:50 pm

If I pull the 48' a lot it may come to gear changing. Suspect
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Post  jbozzelle January 11th 2016, 3:45 pm

You'll like that gear change. The engine will still ride in the sweet spot RPM wise hooked up in overdrive...

Also, if the trans has never been upgraded or rebuilt start setting aside that money now. Mine made it to 298,000 miles before it twisted the input shaft. The trans still looked good inside but it got all the upgrades anyway.

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Post  cool40 January 11th 2016, 8:18 pm

jbozzelle wrote:You'll like that gear change.  The engine will still ride in the sweet spot RPM wise hooked up in overdrive...  

Also, if the trans has never been upgraded or rebuilt start setting aside that money now.  Mine made it to 298,000 miles before it twisted the input shaft.  The trans still looked good inside but it got all the upgrades anyway.  
trans fluid is next on my list of things to do.I may take it to the guys I know who work on these things all the time and get it looked over. Cool
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