5.4L Triton Towing 14,500 lbs

Picking up and delivering some half lego blocks for my Uncle. They are each approximately 2250 lbs. The trailer felt really stable with them loaded up, if I was traveling a further distance with them I probably would have made the request to the loader operator to re-position the 2 rear blocks more forward so they were dead center of the trailer axles, but I feel the tongue weight was perfect with the two forward blocks roughly half way between the trailer axle and the vertical portion of the goose neck.

[@scottcupp8129]

The 5.4 is a very respectable engine

[@ryancollins3227]

I like to compare the 5.4l to the old inline 6 ford 300, slow, will pull literally everything but not at 90 mph, and gets a negative amount of mpg as it does it lmaoo

[@zacheryhenderson497]

And will blow up at high rpms

[@eharris6347]

Overhead cam engines shine at high rpm’s

[@z31freakify]

5.4 doing it's thang... A real workhose at 14k 😲😲😲 you got some huevos amigo.

[@somewhoful]

2006 f250 2wd 7500lb gooseneck with 10000lb load, ran it otr 9 months, including hwy 61, and 68 into maryland, truck still drives fine

[@Dtxhardhitta]

Just bought one is yours a v10 6.8L? Im gonna use it to haul 12 k max

[@HODGEPODGEDODGEGARAGE]

Put the ole truck to work 🙂👍. Nothing wrong with that! Just like you mentioned, as long as you can stop with that weight you're fine. Gas trucks are 100% capable like you said. Most trucks back in the day were gas and they built America with them

[@sirkingdra]

I appreciate your comment man thank you 😀 I haven't made any videos for quite some time as I need to get my computer fixed/replaced, but I owned an 06 LBZ Duramax for about a year after selling this white F350, the Duramax pulled like a train but I realistically couldn't justify the expense to fix the thing and much prefer the simplicity of a gas truck so I went back to a gas job. I've currently got a 2001 Silverado 2500hd with the big 8.1L Vortec engine & Allison Transmission and thus far I am very impressed with its capability. 😄

[@HODGEPODGEDODGEGARAGE]

@@sirkingdra I don't blame you one bit! I have heard horror stories about Duramaxes 😖. Now the 8.1 is a great engine! 🙂👍

[@raulgallardo5014]

​@sirkingdra Is that a 5.4 2valve engine?

[@Shogunersash]

I have a 5.4 2v in my '04 Expedition. This makes me Happy.

[@RobbieRudy]

Yup, same engine in my 97. Gonna be pulling about 8000 lbs about 2000 km away in less than a week.

[@jaimegutierrez210]

@@RobbieRudy keep us updated

[@RobbieRudy]

@@jaimegutierrez210 made it here last night, truck drove well, had to keep overdrive off during any sort of hilly areas, on flat terrain i used Overdrive as much as possible…. Most big hills were foot to the floor to stay at 50mph. Truck didn’t get hot, transmission stayed cool with a radiator transcooler bypass leading direct to a 22500 gvwr cooler (Derale 13504), (175 degrees Fahrenheit maximum). Weight distribution and a trailer anti sway bar made the drive easy, apart from lack of power i wouldnt know it was there. 8mpg average though =(. Drove from Toronto Ontario to Sydney Nova Scotia if you want to see the route.

[@teamexpo2891]

Same here

[@biber638]

I have a 250 5.4 Triton xl super duty with anautomatic trans. And I would select the tow option and the truck's computer (yes I said computer) would know when to shift, were to shift, what gear to stay in, it would know if a soft shift is needed..or not..my 2006 f250 knows when is being pushed or its pulling or its maintaining. It will know the torque needed to do the job .I keep my truck up, clean , and in top working condition. It's not going to put out unneeded horsepower unless its knows what to do. If you drive it like it has a carburetor, and that's what your doing....its no wonder its pulling like grandma is driving. How about letting that throttle position sensor do its job with the computer that's talking to your transmission thats talking to your drive train that's Desperately trying to adjust the valves not to mention fuel air ratio, that's trying to figure out if engine compression (engine braking) is needed when going down hill..pulling and carrying r 2 different things. When an object is in motion it tends to stay in motion. but when climbing or declining let the truck do the thinking. Your not going to hurt it by making it do something you would try to manually make a four barrel do.. oh if trailer brakes are hooked up properly the truck's computer will also know this and adjust accordingly...if all is working well, put that truck in tow and push down on that gas, i mean Accelerator, I MEAN THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR.. my 250 would pull that up or down or any which way without even sweating..,

[@aaronhuff4484]

You the man with the big cajonis

[@SuperDuty250]

A f350 5.4 pulling like that?? Man in a few years diesel trucks gon be outta business😂

[@sirkingdra]

Yea she would throw down with the best of em when I asked it to 😅 Run what ya brung right? lol

[@RioElMystic-999]

This is why I'm going back to gas , diesel , miss maintenance on a diesel and your paying Arm and a leg . Gas just as capable for most residential to mid construction jobs

[@sirkingdra]

@@RioElMystic-999 I've long since sold this old Ford truck (to my current boss coincidentally) and then owned an 06 Duramax thinking I would play in the diesel truck game, owned it a year and thought for the amount of serious towing I did that I could totally get away with using a gas truck so I sold it off and immediately bought a Silverado 2500hd with the big 8.1L Vortec and Allison Transmission and it pulls like no tomorrow. Easily my favorite truck I've owned thus far. I don't ever plan on owning another diesel truck again unless I run another business where it requires heavy towing daily.

[@binary132]

Nice video. That thing has some guts! Would have loved to see it on a hill.

[@JudeCoker-ns2yy]

We pulled 18000 with our 5.4 it did fine.

[@RBLUS_TY]

A small block towing big block cargo? Sweet shit right there.

[@joechapin9888]

Lol

[@scottcupp8129]

I have a 5.4 2 valve in my E250 cargo van. The van is a 1999

[@tomball7681]

I was looking at a 3/4 ton truck with the 5.4 and was like what the hell but this video made me retract my opinion on that thought

[@dustinsanders2379]

Just watched a 6.8 v10 pull 20k lbs grvw uphill at 55mph.

[@d3m0niccity]

Link

[@dustinsanders2379]

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[@JamieMac203]

Lookin at an 01 f350 165k for $3500 think im gonna pull the trigger

[@jerrythor290]

love the 5.4 but the cam phaser and timing chain problem sucks

[@motormouth2472]

Can phasers are limited to the 04 and up 3 valve variants. Anything prior to that had the 2 valve which from what I've heard and read, definitely seems to be the more reliable model

[@nytro8027]

What are good ways to prevent those issues? I’m 6 months deep owning my first 5.4 3v

[@michaeljohnson701]

@@nytro80273000 mile oil change each time I use full synthetic oil in mine plus having it tuned for 3 years never gave me an issue besides fuel pump leaving the truck 😂

[@JanYi2023]

After all this has been said and done I would like to know how many mi you have on the trk. Did I see 424 000?

[@sirkingdra]

That was 424K in km but that was on just the body/frame. The transmission was new when I originally bought the truck. Just did the engine a year ago, new springs in the back. New front end, steering box & pitman arm. Shocks. Front & rear sway bar rebuilt. 6.0L PSD trans cooler. Derale deep trans pan. XRF ball joints. HD 135 Alternator. Glowshift temp gauges. Full rebuilt front and rear axle with new 4.30 gears. Rebuilt front & rear drive shafts. And Wagner severe duty commercial brake pads. Did a LOT of upgrades to this thing lol

[@shaunram5327]

Whats your gear ratio?

[@LATINOOOOOOOOO]

Nicceeeee

[@LuisMorales-oc8zc]

What axle gear you have ? 4.11 4.10. 3.73 ?

[@sirkingdra]

4.30 I replaced the 3.73 with them

[@14paste14]

Is that a 5th wheel with a gooseneck hitch

[@seando87]

You still in the business

[@BobTheBreaker9]

What are those blocks even made for

[@sirkingdra]

My uncle used them for counterweight for a shed he had that was getting picked up from the wind. He wanted to use these to tie the shed down until he could ground the shed down better

[@andyfeds9237]

What gear ratio are you running?

[@sirkingdra]

The truck originally had 3.73 but I had them replaced with 4.30 which is what the truck had during this video.

[@larrylalzbeats9931]

Did you buy the truck

[@FromThe3PointLine]

Fuel milage?

[@sirkingdra]

Wasnt sure entirely on that. If I had to estimate, probably 8 meters to the gallon

[@nicholasinman3882]

Couple of feet per gallon

[@christopherparamdeo815]

That a 2 or 350?

[@sirkingdra]

F350

[@nickf4651]

Been wanting to get an 05-07 f250 ccsb for picking up junk cars and trucks for scrapping but also using as a regular daily what would you recommend to make it handle weight like this every so often? Like I was thinking maybe a gooseneck and hauling 3 cars a time also thinking of running 35s

[@ryancollins3227]

I mean a 5.4l will pull anything really, just mpg is the issue with it. The 5.4l isnt fast, its a slow v8 with good tq. The v10 is faster and more powerful but sucks up more gas than the 5.4l, thr 6.0(diesel) being the best of mpg and power. A 6.0l cpuld go 70 up with a 20k load on a trailer, no problem but 6.0ls are problematic if not bullet proofed

[@pabloserrano709]

What about the 6.2 gas

[@jacobsebastien3910]

What is the axle ratio?

[@dperr338]

4.30 post on a different comment.

[@chainsawcanuck]

Apart from being over your car which for commercial is a no-no you are also using a camera while driving both illegal in alberta your gonna kill someone

[@sirkingdra]

Where' the car? And who's commercial? When I was commercial, I crossed DOT scales just as heavy as this twice. Zero issues.

[@DIECKMAN-AuctionGuy86]

It was a stationary camera. He was talking not taking selfies. They come in real handy when an accident happens.

[@El_ReyJ]

😂

[@jeffersonmoctezuma3733]

Ok Karen