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Greetings from a converted former powerstroke owner. After 3 years of semi-faithfull service from my Ford, I decided to get what I hoped to be a more reliable ride. Don't get me wrong, I loved the looks of my super duty, and the sound of the powerstroke is hard to beat.
At 24,000 miles, I lost the first tranny. It ate the output shaft, and spewed shavings throughout the tranny. That took 3 weeks to fix and ruined one of our out of town trips with our fiver. I adorned the ford with goodies like guages, retrax cover, K&N fipk, travel time conversion package, and several other goodies.
At 40,000, I added a superchips microtuner. kept it at the 60 horse tune, and she ran beautifully. I know the saying, you play, you pay. And at 48,000 I lost the second tranny. So, I got a little disgruntled and traded it off.
Last november I found this sitting on the lot
So, I took her home, and have just now started to shower her with gifts, well, not many but a DPPI 4" exhast, Man I love the deep rumble that puts out, and GoRhin0 W2W nerfs.
With 11,000 miles on her so far, she's perfoming flawlessly. I'm very pleased with the towing abilities with our 5er.
So far, I dont feel the need for any extra power, but I'm not sure how long I can hold out
About the only thing that is hard to get used to is the front end on the 03, but it is growing on my slowly.
I have been lurking on the the other DP site for about a year now, and have learned alot about these trucks. Cudo's for this site and what looks like the up and coming premier site for duramax information. Dang, I feel like I've written a book...lol
Mike T.

At 24,000 miles, I lost the first tranny. It ate the output shaft, and spewed shavings throughout the tranny. That took 3 weeks to fix and ruined one of our out of town trips with our fiver. I adorned the ford with goodies like guages, retrax cover, K&N fipk, travel time conversion package, and several other goodies.

At 40,000, I added a superchips microtuner. kept it at the 60 horse tune, and she ran beautifully. I know the saying, you play, you pay. And at 48,000 I lost the second tranny. So, I got a little disgruntled and traded it off.
Last november I found this sitting on the lot

So, I took her home, and have just now started to shower her with gifts, well, not many but a DPPI 4" exhast, Man I love the deep rumble that puts out, and GoRhin0 W2W nerfs.

With 11,000 miles on her so far, she's perfoming flawlessly. I'm very pleased with the towing abilities with our 5er.

So far, I dont feel the need for any extra power, but I'm not sure how long I can hold out

About the only thing that is hard to get used to is the front end on the 03, but it is growing on my slowly.
I have been lurking on the the other DP site for about a year now, and have learned alot about these trucks. Cudo's for this site and what looks like the up and coming premier site for duramax information. Dang, I feel like I've written a book...lol
Mike T.