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Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
Yahoo Message Number: 105293
I recently brought up a question regarding the RPM redline on the Ford 6.8L V10. As suggested, I called the Ford customer service line for the cutaway motorhome chassis, and they gave me a range of between 5000 and 5100 RPM. So, for those who worry about such things, that is the word from Ford. I haven't exceeded 4700 yet and I hope to be able to keep it under 5000, but some of our little hills here in Colorado sure do exert some serious gravitational pull.

Larry
 Just back from a tour of Monarch, Slumgullion, Silver Creek, and other miscellaneaous long downhills...
Larry in Monument, CO
2008 24' FD
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
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Yahoo Message Number: 105295
Yes they are, but I wanted to know what Ford had established as a redline for my own information so that I could stay away from it. I think having an electronic rev limiter is great, but I don't 100% trust that it will sense what the engine is doing in time to save it if I'm not paying attention on a downgrade. Probably overkill on my part, but I am a charter member of the disaster patrol.

Larry
Larry in Monument, CO
2008 24' FD
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 105303
.....having an electronic rev limiter is great...what the engine is doing in time to save it ......

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Larry
Back at the first of this summer at the LD Butterfield GTG I sat in on a session of the SCAN GAUGE - I finally have ordered mine, but not until I had a scare of concern over my transmission coming out of Colorado -
 Technoz, I think, has info on the Scan Gauge and can get from their web site too -
 The Scan Gauge can take a lot of ??? out of many concerns with our dear LD's engines etc

Virginia, Jim and Cricket Starr and Midnight Roadie
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
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Yahoo Message Number: 105304
...at the first of this summer at the LD Butterfield GTG ....

OOPS - it was Spring - Time flies when wandering around in one's LD

Virginia
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 105305
"I think having an electronic rev limiter is great, but I don't 100% trust that it will sense what the engine is doing in time to save it if I'm not paying attention on a downgrade."

Larry
 Your thinking is correct. The computer will not let the engine over-rev going uphill but cannot stop it from doing so when going downhill.
Luckily, the V-10 makes such a racket (mostly intake noise) when it revs over 4500-RPM that I cannot stand it, forcing me to pay attention and to slow down or up-shift.
The V-10 is a good motor but do not like the intake or exhaust note.
The V-10 does not have the sweet sound of a V-8 or V-12, the harmonics or something is wrong.

Larry
Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
Tow vehicles  2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, 2001 Jeep Cherokee
Photo Collection: Lazy Daze
 
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford
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Yahoo Message Number: 105306
Larry
 I agree on the exhaust note...that's why I'm putting a 327 in my 57 Chevy 1/2 ton 4X4 project. Of course I may have to run it on something other than gasoline by the time I finish it. A hybrid hotrod 4X4 pickup?

Larry Jones
Larry in Monument, CO
2008 24' FD