Just got back from Canada 1 month ago from a bear-hunting trip. 900mi. one-way from home. Hunt was for my sons high-school grad gift. New Encore 300Win Mag custom barrel and this hunt. Now jr. just had to have this Dodge diesel, a 93 4x4 while he was a junior in high school. Chrome stack sticking out the bed and all. It ain't a bad running truck, it gets 19 1/2 mpg on the highway and it's an auto. But deep down in his heart he's a Ford lover(dad has a 75 hi-boy w/300,000 plus miles) So this last winter a beast of a Ford came up for sale that he again has to have. So older brother buys his Dodge and he has his Ford. The back window of the Dodge that was once his had all the slamming stickers and slogans that I'm sure you've all seen. The Ford also had stickers on it when he bought it only worse. But , this Ford backs up what it says!!! It's a 93 F350 7.3 Turbo, the last of them b4 Powerstrock's. It has had the heads shaved, ported and polished, over-size injectors installed and a bigger pump put in it. Guys this will flat out run!!!!!! Just put a new set of BFG's 35" mudders b4 trip. We rolled into camp ( running 80mph thru michigan ,only gets 11 1/2 mpg 4:10 gears and is an auto w/shift kit) and there sits a brand new Chevy Duramax(dura-trash as the boy calls em') 4x4 4-door at the cabin beside us. Now this Ford ain't built for show but for go!!! A lift kit, rear-locker and misc. stuff, it's a red-neck speacial if you've never seen one b4. Across the back tail-gate is written"Low riders are for little boyz that can't get it up" and the window has the usuall"Eatin Dodges and S*ittig Chevy's.With Clavin pissin' on everything. The guys in the next cabin were told not to park too close as to a big pile of Ford S%it might appear in the morning, we traded back and forth the usuall good natured jabs and had alot of fun. Untill the Chevy guy tried to retrive a bear and buried the duramax. And I mean buried. The guide wouldn't even attempt to try and pull it out and he has 2 winches on everything he owns(the biggest only 1/2 ton truck). So with the hardest thing the Chevy guy ever had to say in his life was"can you pull me out?" No problem!! I had to back this beast of a Ford in about 1/2 mile and hooked up to him. This has no muffler, only a straight chrome stack coming out of the bed. I built a diamond plate spacer between cab and tool box for the stack, and this truck has diamond plate everwhere. It ain't loud as u think untill you have to use it, boys when it open ups it'll make the hair stand up on your neck. It won't blow black smoke either because it'll burn whats pumped into it. With them new rubbers and all of it's power I yanked him out and covered his new truck with so much mud you couldn't tell what color it was. There was 6 of us all together and the ones watching thought the Ford would never pull it out as bad as he was stuck. Needles to say they were impressed and the Chevy guy admitted his defeat and yielded victory to the Ford!!
