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7 hours ago, twintornados said:

Tester is all "Oh, I feel real bad for breaking the truck..." ...get over it...I am sure that the boys over at 5 Star and extremely happy that you snapped the yoke with their tune.

Oh, the guys who do the coding were.

 

The guys out in the shop, not so much...

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35 minutes ago, 92merc said:

Hopefully because he learned his lesson on the 2.7EB.  I actually didn't watch the whole video.  So I'm not sure which was first.

I think you are right-on.  Order was 5.0 first, then 2.7, then 3.5.  3.5 launch seemed rather relaxed compared to the other two.

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14 hours ago, theoldwizard said:

Interesting that BOTH the front an rear joints failed.  One was the cross in a U-joint.  No failure on the higher powered 3.5L EcoBoost.  I winder what the difference is in the drivetrain ?

It probably didn't help the rear when the front end got rammed into the track.

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Back in the early 90s. I worked just down the hall from the guys doing the the development on the 7.3L PowerStroke diesel.  One of theit test vehicles was an F350 dually with a manual transmission.  One of their unofficial tests was to loaf the truck up to max GVW,  place the transmission in 1st gear, rev to about 2000 RPM and side steep the clutch.  Either the tires broke loose or something broke.

Walking by one guys desk one day, I noticed a big chunk of steel on his desk.  It was a piece of the driveshaft with a 90+° twist in it !  They had already blown multiple u-joints, clutches and even a few transmission input shafts !

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