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Found your site recently, nice to see it's not so "brand specific" as other sites can be.Being a nearly ready to retire, agricultural earthmoving contractor in the cotton farm irrigation industry, I've burned my share of oil since 1979. Had several oil burning vehicles over the years, would be silly not to, as we had it on tap in the industry.
Vehicles we've run, mainly 4x4 Nissan Patrols (you might call them safari's or titans) 6 cylinder non and turbo, then later intercooled turbos, finally they made some power. Only recently, put a 2001 F250 2wd ex ambulance on the road as a tow vehicle for our caravan (trailer) which the wife and I hope to do the "grey nomad deal", pack and track, hit the road. The truck with the 7.3 and with the central locking (pdl) enclosed rear looked to be the "bees knees" (good thing) for our travels, with some upgrades. Towing a 3 tonne (7,000lb ?) trailer with soft "Cadillac" style suspension,would be a No No, so removing the airbag reliant parabolic rear leaves and replacing them with a 2" lift block plus standard F250 leaves and reinstating the airbags plus a 2" lift blocks under the front coils has made the whole unit sit up and ride high, albeit rough when empty but it did the job today on it's first mission to retrieve the caravan from the last job site 105 k's (63 miles) away.
Will probably need a chip type tuner to sort out the auto trans before we get to serious about towing though.
Seeing we're on the opposite side of the world to you people in the USA in winter, if you were feeling cold today, it was 38c (100F) here today. Definitely beer time.
Cheers, Russ