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Needed $50,000 to re-power my LD
A friend just bought a 2016 F250 Larait. It has a 6.7-liter diesel with 860 lb-ft of torque. Holy Moly, just get on it a little bit and it drives you back in the seat. Now I understand how the triple axle toy haulers with a dozen sand machines in the back pass me so quick going up a steep grade.

Not likely Ford will put these engines in the E-series, so I need your kind donations to effect the change.
Don & Dorothy
Sold our LD in June of 2023

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Re: Needed $50,000 to re-power my LD
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Quote from: Don Malpas  - 
A friend just bought a 2016 F250 Larait. It has a 6.7-liter diesel with 860 lb-ft of torque. Holy Moly, just get on it a little bit and it drives you back in the seat. Now I understand how the triple axle toy haulers with a dozen sand machines in the back pass me so quick going up a steep grade.
Not likely Ford will put these engines in the E-series, so I need your kind donations to effect the change.
Now you know why I keep suggesting an updated E450 that has a similar engine. During last summer's trip to Colorado, we were regularly passed, no, more like blow away by a diesel pickup, pulling 35' toy boxes. To add insult to injury, they were getting better mileage too.

Save your $50,000, your E450's engine bay isn't big enough to hold the diesel.
Now, if they widened the cab up a bit, so the front track was the same as the back, the diesel would fit and the passenger side footwell might even get a little more space. It would handle better too.
New F150s have aluminum body, so do the new E450 cab in aluminum. Replace the frame with a lighter, higher strength alloy and utilize all the other better technologies that are being used in today's cars. Over the next few years, all vehicles must get better mileage and material light weighting is a major field of research and development. Utilize it.

The Energy's Department Supertruck program is yielding major MPG gains in large trucks and much of new technology can be applied to RVs.
SuperTruck Making Leaps in Fuel Efficiency | Department of Energy
And the best news for us aging boomers, self driving systems are are the horizon. The trucking industry wants them now and adaptation to RV's will be a natural.
Now, all I will need is a robot to serve drinks in the rear lounge, while heading down the road.
It's going to be great.

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: Needed $50,000 to re-power my LD
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Larry implied,  but keys not forget self driving. Key component to enjoy the long hauls between choice camping areas, where we take over to negotiate the tracks in the woods.
Paul
'92 Mid Bath