Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Was doing housecleaning on my PC, and came across this old bit from a few years back (when I still had my modded '91) that I had posted over in one of the Ford furums in a thread discussing the hoped for or expected power increase in the Fords, once they were fully broken in...
However, keep in mind the myth of vast power or MPG increases after break in are NOT limited to the Ford crowd...
:-laf
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Sacramento Times 10/19/98
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Ford announces recall on
all '99 Superduty diesels
Dearborn Mi. (upp)
The Ford Motor Company today announced a total
recall of all classes of their latest Super
Duty diesel trucks, according to company
spokesmen.
The recall apparently relates to scattered and
isolated incidents where these specified trucks
happened to achieve full engine breakin at the
precise moment their "50 mile" computer chips
kicked in - usually resulting in cases of severe
whiplash to their drivers, accompanied by associated
property damage.
"We've seen documented cases where entire subframes
have been completely yanked out from under RV trailers"
stated Ford spokesman B. S. Freely. "That, in addition
to many rear cab windows broken when drivers heads
struck them from the abrupt acceleration, has forced us
to take stiff countermeasures", Freely added.
According to Freely, the fix for this unanticipated
problem, is to add computer controls to the emergency
braking systems of the affected trucks, which will
automatically apply at the 10,000 mile mark, which is
the point where full breakin occurs. Emergency brakes
are then kept applied for a full 1000 miles, permitting
drivers to become gradually accustomed to the vastly
increased power provided by the thoroughly broken in
engine. "We feel the added cost of the computer controls,
added to the rebuilding cost of the emergency brake system
is cheap in comparison to medical and property damage
claims" Freely stated.
According to Mr. Freely, a second action taken to correct
the problem will be to swap out existing Ford truck
computer controls. "We bought those Taiwan-made computers
from the outfit that originally made them for Cushman
Motor Scooters - and totally overlooked the fact that the
Ford Power Stroke Diesel makes nearly TWICE the power of
the Cushman Scooters the computers were originally made
for".
Our new supplier will be a Mexico supplier, and has been
named the "Manana computer", and while exact benefits of
that computer cannot be revealed, those with a knowledge
of Spanish will recognize that "Manana" in Spanish means
"tomorrow" - indicating that the new computer may not be
quite as fast as the model it replaces.
A second, related revelation from Mr. Freely, related to
reports of an older Dodge truck in the West Coast area
that has been terrorizing some Ford owners in steep
mountain grades. Mr. Freely states " We at first totally
discounted those reports as absurd - but when reports
from reliable sources continued to arrive, we investigated
further. What we found was truly astounding! Our own
engineering department was flabbergasted at the random
application of several modifications, that when carefully
applied, were entirely capable of production of engine
output that exceeded the 8 years of design on our own
larger V8 Navistar diesels. "
Mr Freely continued, "The basic soundness applied by the
owner of that '91 Cummins powered Dodge had completely been
overlooked by our own engineering department, and we are
now negotiating with that owner so that we may incorporate
those changes into next years Ford Super Duty trucks. If
negotiations are a success, we expect our 2003 truck line
to be the new power leaders in their class. Of course, it
WILL greatly aggravate our whiplash problems... "
Current plans are to name the improved Ford trucks as
"Ford Manana Stroke diesels".
However, keep in mind the myth of vast power or MPG increases after break in are NOT limited to the Ford crowd...
:-laf ========
Sacramento Times 10/19/98
====================
Ford announces recall on
all '99 Superduty diesels
Dearborn Mi. (upp)
The Ford Motor Company today announced a total
recall of all classes of their latest Super
Duty diesel trucks, according to company
spokesmen.
The recall apparently relates to scattered and
isolated incidents where these specified trucks
happened to achieve full engine breakin at the
precise moment their "50 mile" computer chips
kicked in - usually resulting in cases of severe
whiplash to their drivers, accompanied by associated
property damage.
"We've seen documented cases where entire subframes
have been completely yanked out from under RV trailers"
stated Ford spokesman B. S. Freely. "That, in addition
to many rear cab windows broken when drivers heads
struck them from the abrupt acceleration, has forced us
to take stiff countermeasures", Freely added.
According to Freely, the fix for this unanticipated
problem, is to add computer controls to the emergency
braking systems of the affected trucks, which will
automatically apply at the 10,000 mile mark, which is
the point where full breakin occurs. Emergency brakes
are then kept applied for a full 1000 miles, permitting
drivers to become gradually accustomed to the vastly
increased power provided by the thoroughly broken in
engine. "We feel the added cost of the computer controls,
added to the rebuilding cost of the emergency brake system
is cheap in comparison to medical and property damage
claims" Freely stated.
According to Mr. Freely, a second action taken to correct
the problem will be to swap out existing Ford truck
computer controls. "We bought those Taiwan-made computers
from the outfit that originally made them for Cushman
Motor Scooters - and totally overlooked the fact that the
Ford Power Stroke Diesel makes nearly TWICE the power of
the Cushman Scooters the computers were originally made
for".
Our new supplier will be a Mexico supplier, and has been
named the "Manana computer", and while exact benefits of
that computer cannot be revealed, those with a knowledge
of Spanish will recognize that "Manana" in Spanish means
"tomorrow" - indicating that the new computer may not be
quite as fast as the model it replaces.
A second, related revelation from Mr. Freely, related to
reports of an older Dodge truck in the West Coast area
that has been terrorizing some Ford owners in steep
mountain grades. Mr. Freely states " We at first totally
discounted those reports as absurd - but when reports
from reliable sources continued to arrive, we investigated
further. What we found was truly astounding! Our own
engineering department was flabbergasted at the random
application of several modifications, that when carefully
applied, were entirely capable of production of engine
output that exceeded the 8 years of design on our own
larger V8 Navistar diesels. "
Mr Freely continued, "The basic soundness applied by the
owner of that '91 Cummins powered Dodge had completely been
overlooked by our own engineering department, and we are
now negotiating with that owner so that we may incorporate
those changes into next years Ford Super Duty trucks. If
negotiations are a success, we expect our 2003 truck line
to be the new power leaders in their class. Of course, it
WILL greatly aggravate our whiplash problems... "
Current plans are to name the improved Ford trucks as
"Ford Manana Stroke diesels".
