Ram 1500 first modern half ton to offer diesel

[Peacock]

The air filter was the easiest thing to change on my 04 z71. The oil filter however you ha to have hands the size of a child and have the magician skills of Houdini.

Don't own an oil filter wrench? $5 tool that makes those cake.

 

[sld]

Someone mentioned poor oil filter placement on the Ford 6.8? What are you smoking?

I can drain the oil and remove the filter without even moving the drain pan. Easiest vehicle I have ever seen to change the oil.

I could change it in a tux and not get anything dirty.

 

[Peacock]

Someone mentioned poor oil filter placement on the Ford 6.8? What are you smoking?

I can drain the oil and remove the filter without even moving the drain pan. Easiest vehicle I have ever seen to change the oil.

I could change it in a tux and not get anything dirty.

Try one some dummy at Jiffy Lube put on too tight. Or one of them that has no funnel under the filter. The oil drains all over the front axle, leaving spots for days. Even if you use a lot of brake clean.

 

[kenmac]

Ford did not get a bailout. They were not ready to under like the other 2. The money they got was to accelerate production of electric cars and retool factories.

Call it what you want. The fact remains that Ford took tax payer $$$$ just like the others. Ford still hasn't payed it back. So, did Ford take a loan from the tax payers ?? Yes. GM & Chrysler paid their loan back. More than you can say for Ford


Automakers' Report Card: Who Still Owes Taxpayers Money? The Answer Might Surprise You - Forbes

 

[Code54]

I'm not understanding your thought. How would increasing demand for diesel bring lower prices? Wouldn't the opposite be true? More diesel engines would drive up demand, increasing price. Correct me if I misunderstood.

Funny you brought that up.. I ALWAYS believed the same thing until I started reading up on it and learned I was originally incorrect. It seems the "gas" companies are claiming that Diesel is not being sold here in large enough quantity to justify new pipelines and additional refineries. They claim that is why diesel is higher currently because the demand does not reach a point where they could invest more to into the supply chain that would allow much cheaper delivery and production. It really sound 100% backwards and may well just be another excuse to keep prices high but to some extent I guess it makes sense.
Hope that helps explain my comments. All I can really say is I wish diesel was cheaper!! This $4.25 a gallon is a killer

 

[aczlan]

Call it what you want. The fact remains that Ford took tax payer $$$$ just like the others. Ford still hasn't payed it back. So, did Ford take a loan from the tax payers ?? Yes. GM & Chrysler paid their loan back. More than you can say for Ford
Automakers' Report Card: Who Still Owes Taxpayers Money? The Answer Might Surprise You - Forbes

B.S. GM has paid back less than 50% of their bailout money (note the GM bailout included the Treasury purchasing 500 million shares of GM stock, NOT just loans). From your linked article:
GM: has paid back $23.1B out of $49.5B, the rest is held in stock which needs to be trading at over twice its current value for us to get our money back
Chrysler: paid back $9.2B, but we lost $1.3B in the deal
Ford: Loan payments start in Sep 2013. Note that the Ford loan was to help the company make more efficient vehicles, NOT to provide operating capital

So, saying that "Ford still hasn't payed it back" when the payments are not scheduled to start for another 7 months is a strawman argument at best.
Full text from the linked article:

GM: repaid $23.1 billion of the $49.5 billion it got from the U.S. Treasury, including all of its outstanding loans. But Treasury still owns 500 million shares, or 32%, of GM stock. To recoup its full investment, GM stock needs to hit $52.80 per share. It's currently trading around $21. GM also received a $106 million matching grant to build a battery factory in Brownstown, MI, where it is assembling battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in car using cells imported from Korea.

Chrysler: repaid $9.2 billion, fulfilling its debt obligations to the U.S. and Canadian governments, and is now owned by Italian automaker Fiat (58.5%) and a health care trust for UAW retirees (41.5%). Overall, taxpayers lost $1.3 billion on the Chrysler bailout. In full recovery mode, Chrysler is currently the fastest-growing carmaker in the world.

Ford: used its $5.9 billion loan to convert two truck plants to small-car production and to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles like the Ford Focus EV and C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, on sale this fall. Loan repayments start in September. Ford says it will spend $14 billion over the next seven years on advanced-technology vehicles.

Aaron Z

 

[94BULLITT]

It looks like the difference between dpilots take on it and all the others who support GM is that DP is ONE person giving his experience with ONE bad GM. The rest is the "my neighbor" " my BIL" or now "my college room mate" stories. for all we know, they abused their trucks, like his brothers F-150. The GM guys seem to bring experience with fleets of trucks.
I myself drive trucks anywhere east of the Mississippi. I have over a million miles of towing, guys who work for me probably another million. They all prefer to drive the GM's. The poster above worked with a fleet of trucks, GM and ford run side by side. Same with the guy with the Buick tattoo on his avatar. It seems almost overwhelming. The problem with ford is they cheap out on drive trains and brakes and ball joints. If they would build those systems with more reliable, better quality components, they would have a better truck than GM.

How do you know how well anyone takes care of their vehicle if you are just talking to them over the internet? If you had a 7.3 and 6.0 Fords and hated them so badly why did you buy a 6.4? Nothing towing a heavy load is going to have brakes that last forever. Its funny how the worst truck is the best selling truck 35 years in a row. I like how nobody ever mentions a GM problem.

Try one some dummy at Jiffy Lube put on too tight. Or one of them that has no funnel under the filter. The oil drains all over the front axle, leaving spots for days. Even if you use a lot of brake clean.

Some of the F-150's and expeditions with the 5.4 had the filter behind the front bumper.

I could not think of the explorer with the cat under the trans pan that you were talking about earlier. I just did a oil change in a Ranger with a 3.0 that the cat ran under the trans pan, that may be what you are thinking of. It would be tight coming out.

 

[sld]

Try one some dummy at Jiffy Lube put on too tight. Or one of them that has no funnel under the filter. The oil drains all over the front axle, leaving spots for days. Even if you use a lot of brake clean.

I have owned a 99 and 2007 6.8 and removing the filter has never put a single drop in the front axle.

Not sure what you are talking about. And...that is what you get for having Jiffy Lube change your oil.

 

[94BULLITT]

These are nice for oil changes or a peice of cardboard does the trick.

 

[sld]

These are nice for oil changes or a peice of cardboard does the trick.

The wifes 2010 4.6l mountaineer has something similar to that from the factory. After removing the filter just take a rag and wipe of the "chute".

BTW, this vehicle is awesome. Can't believe Mercury is gone. If nothing else, it doesn't look like the other 10 million explorers out there.