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Getting off my soapbox, its great that Ford Continues to offer choices so that everyone finds a powertrain that is "just right". Sounds like for you thats the 5.0. Also, while I have never been a MOPAR guy I do love a good Muscle Car. Awesome Hemi, I am sure it puts a huge smile on your face.

I am not going to lie and say a V8 with a good exhaust doesn't sound like freedom. Our previous boat had through hull exhaust and even a small block 6.2 at idle sounded cool. Neighbor up the street has a Dodge 5.7 /w an exhaust and there have been times when I hear it rolling down the street I...

Put the 5.0 and the 3.5 torque curves on a graph. Dont label which is which - hand it to anyone serious about doing truck things and the decision should be over in about a second. The 3.5 is a torque monster and it builds that torque almost off idle. If you took all the BS out of the equation -...

Like I said we really do live in a Golden Age of engines....I dont worry much about the longevity of my EcoBoost and while the horsepower wars will continue as you pointed out above 400hp/500tq is plenty for what I need. Now if only we could get this same level of refinement and advancement in...

From what I have seen adding Max Tow does not change the tires on the truck. My Max Tow came with the Hankook's.

Purchased these for my 2022 - they are a bit bright also - but look 1000x better than the OEM bulbs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079ZC1GM6?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

Not to start a war, but as I sip my coffee this AM I figured I would try to start a small battle. I don't understand "the 5.0 is simpler" train of thought. Both the 3.5 and the 5.0 are complex engines. This isn't 1960, every engine in a modern car/truck/van is complex at this point. It's a...

Very well said. It's great Ford continues to provide options....always good to have choices and we will all have our personal preferences based on usage and perceived reliability or lack there of.

I'm in no way a prop engineer but as I understand it the single prop alpha's are faster top end but give up hole shot to the dual prop B3's. I would guess formula said the big block planed out ok /w the Alpha and wanted the top end speed vs the 5.7 that needed the dual props to help get up on...

Nicely done, some stuff is so easy to get to in boats, other stuff requires you to bend into such weird positions in the bilge I gladly let someone else do it. Obviously super boat and hull dependent, but we were dong 32mph across the lake at 2850rpm last weekend. We do have a Bravo 3, lake...

Not to totally derail the thread...but its an interesting topic. Volvo and Merc are the two largest stern drive engine manufactures and have taken two very different paths. Back in they day they both used GM Blocks. When GM stopped making the 8.1 they had a decision on their hands. Merc...

There is a lot of grey around this, at least in my opinion. I have read the Ford tune does NOT void the 3 year / 36000 warranty. I have heard it DOES void any extended warranty including Ford ESP. I have read some dealers continue to honor the ESP on tuned trucks others dont. Perhaps someone...

Agree, I do shake my head at videos of people who spin tires at a boat ramp because they tried to save a few thousand dollars and bought a RWD truck. That said you can option Max Tow on a 2WD truck. As an added bonus doing so will result in a nice bump in payload - turns out transfer cases are...

I went back and forth a few times with the same questions when we ordered our 22. Luckily a local dealer had a max tow and non-max tow on the lot so we were able to drive both back to back on the same loop. Everyone is different, but after driving both my wife and I both came away thinking the...

I hate to admit this publicly but I let Ford do about every other oil change. It's not that I mind changing oil, in fact like others in this thread i usually find it relaxing. What I dont enjoy doing is rotating tires. Every other oil change or so I will take the truck to Ford let them do the...

By default the truck will start to display temps at a given threshold. I dont know the exact breaking point but lets say below 230 it just shows the gauge 230 and above it displays the gauge and the numbers. The ForSCAN hack just enables the numbers regardless of temperature. Super handy and...

Gotcha, little under ours. We dont tow a ton, maybe 200 miles a year. Just curious the experience if we decided to tow further.

You have plenty of power. Keep an eye on the transmission temps - if you haven't already I would use ForSCAN to enable the temp readouts on the display. I have seen the trans get as high as 216 to 218 and the actual line on the display didnt move. Only way I knew it was creeping up is because I...

How much boat are you pulling that you need weight Distribution?

In fairness those are two totally different tires. The Defender is closer to the Conti H/T. The A/T are going to be heavier, have a much more aggressive tread, be louder, etc. The Defenders are going to have better road manners but suck once you get off pavement. It's really not fair to...