F450 woes

[aczlan]

Sad thing is they already made the chassis 15 years ago......3500HD!

If so, they forgot to tell the folks who print the GCWR and GVW stickers.

Aaron Z

 

[brain55]

If so, they forgot to tell the folks who print the GCWR and GVW stickers.

Aaron Z

 

[Hay Dude]

15,000 GVWR, same as my '99 F-450 was.
I'm sure they could easily make them heavier.

 

[downslope]

If so, they forgot to tell the folks who print the GCWR and GVW stickers.

Aaron Z

Back in that time period 3500HD was equivalent to F-Superduty/F-450. It had solid front axle, 19.5 tires, etc. It was not what they call a 3500HD today, built more like today's 4500.
The early 3500HD was a chassis cab only, only the "regular" 3500 could be had with a pickup body.

 

[Soundguy]

We were hauling hay to New York on the thruway. There was a pullover and the cops were checking our trucks. Definately looking for tampered-with cats and the like.
I think the days of just inspecting brakes, dipping fuel alone are over. The big fines are in tampered pollution controls.

i can tell you they still dip tanks.

about every year a dot officer stops by our office and dips every diesel that has a tag on it.. including personal vehicles...

 

[brain55]

That is why we never did dyed diesel at at the landscape contractor I worked for. Far too big of a risk of having the guys pump the wrong fuel into a on-road vehicle.

i can tell you they still dip tanks.

about every year a dot officer stops by our office and dips every diesel that has a tag on it.. including personal vehicles...

 

[Soundguy]

i remember one time.. maybee 20ys back we had a worked on a remote job have an emergency and ran out of diesel in his work truck, had to put ina couple gal red to get to a station.

sure enough a week later he got dipped.. and the red dye from t he few g was enough to show even a couple tanks later..

he wrote a letter and got the fine REDUCED after explaining the emergency..

 

[Hay Dude]

i can tell you they still dip tanks.

about every year a dot officer stops by our office and dips every diesel that has a tag on it.. including personal vehicles...

I didn't say they stopped dipping them, I said "I think the days of just inspecting brakes, dipping fuel alone are over. The big fines are in tampered pollution controls."

In other words, they dip, look at brakes and now look at pollution controls, too.
I get dipped on the big rigs all over the country.

 

[brain55]

So anyway, I should be getting my truck back today. I guess we'll see. They actually had it back together running Thursday night but it had an oil leak. They called me Friday to let me know it was a cracked oil pump housing on the new short block. Hoping they don't have any more problems, this fixing tractors out of the trunk of a rental car really, really sucks.

Brian

 

[aczlan]

this fixing tractors out of the trunk of a rental car really, really sucks.

They couldn't at least "rent" you one of their used pickups?
Yeesh.

Aaron Z