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I did this back when I got my safe. My advice: hire people. The limiting factor isn't your tailgate, it's your discs and your ligaments. Paying a Ford tech to replace a tailgate is expensive, but it's dirt cheap compared to what spine surgeons charge.

I completely agree, and I would (and am) upgrade the whole exhaust from the heads to the tips before I added forced induction. I'm just trying to reply to the OP's question in a restrained manner. He absolutely SHOULD upgrade the whole exhaust system as priority 1, but I think he's asking "do...

What is the goal/use case? If you're driving at reasonable rates of speed and acceleration most of the time and doing a few spaced out glory runs on the strip, I doubt that the cats will die too early or hold you back much. If you're trying to haul a near capacity trailer up a hill in the...

The Gatorback mudflaps are AWESOME. Mounting them is a LOT of fiddly screws, but they are very secure and I haven't had to touch them since install. They are built to stop projectiles.

Ford sells vehicles and loans on vehicles and vehicle service. They will do whatever we (or, more accurately, enough of us) tell them to do. They're even willing to break the law to do it.....just ask Ram, Cummins and VW. They would sell Pintos with lawnmower engines if enough of us bought...

I don't think that a diff swap helps the PB. The PB needs WIDER gears, which can only come from the transmission. Nobody but Ford can change the gears in the 10R80. A 4.6:1 to 0.5:1 transmission would benefit the PB as would a bigger electric motor and a smaller ICE. This is because short...

I would also vote for a Torsen. It's a purely mechanical system, and all of the parts are beefy. You won't break one unless you aggressively abuse it. I had front and rear torsens in my old explorer and it had milder road manners than the worn out Ford limited slip. I currently have an...

I will use this opportunity to point out that 2 hose clamps, 2' of 3/8" heater hose, a reflective DEI jacket for said hose, a big pair of pliers, a screwdriver, safety glasses (YOU WILL GET COOLANT IN YOUR FACE AND SWALLOW SOME...at least Ford's coolant has an effective bitterant) and your...

I randomly met a guy at a bar who was looking for a farm truck and he was stuck between a '17 3.5 and a '13 5.0 that was about $10k less with same miles. I suggested that for his purpose (hauling lighter stuff to and from farm), the 5.0 would be better because he 1) had no control of the...

The stock exhaust manifolds are a tragedy. If you look at the stock manifold vs the full race manifold, it's like looking at the difference between a part designed by someone who knew how flowing fluids work and someone who didn't. Ford engineers pretty clearly understand CFD and have amazing...

That is awesome. It makes it more curious why they aren't coating piston faces (or are they?). The one part of the Carnot equation that we can adjust is the hot temperature; Brayton turbine engines have benefitted quite a bit from ceramics pushing temperatures up, but we haven't seen the same...

I can't help with the muffler, but I will say that a good muffler shop will generally outdo a kit in terms of your time, cost, and usually quality as well. Corsa and Borla have slightly cleaner mandrel bends, but most muffler shops are equal if not very close. Furthermore, the shop is gonna...

Look at the links below. Right now, random oriented carbon "forgings" are $19k/set race parts (and that's $19k for the pistons and another $19k for the con rods), so nowhere near production ready. If we get there for large scale manufacture, my guess is that replacing the epoxy resin with a...

They are hub motors, but they aren't (usually) electric. There are probably some electric models, but for the most part they are hydraulic fluid powered swash plate motors. Electric motors make more sense and are much more efficient, but heavy equipment manufacturers were more comfortable with...

Which engine?

Solid state is about a 30% improvement in energy density, maybe up to 0.5 kWh/kg (that's about double where they are now). Gasoline is 12.9 kWh/kg, but you have to multiply that by the efficiency in converting it to electricity or rotational motion and be sure to include the overhead for...

What is your time horizon/current situation? I have a '21 PB and love it, but we are in a period of RAPID change for trucks and vehicles in general right now. The Ram Charger is the first awkward step, but we will see a lot more of that soon and from every corner. I bought a truck knowing...

To be clear everything is gonna go to electric traction motors. The issue that current generation EVs will face is that hub motors capitalize of the possibilities far better than the current crop of more traditional EV drive trains with differentials and CV shafts. Farley publicly stated that...

Walk away and post the name of the dealer so that others know to avoid them.

That's why my main suggestion is "get a gas engine". A guy who ran a diesel business for years and has forgotten more about them than most others will ever know told me "Never own a diesel unless you're running it hard and using it to earn money."