Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Well it's been a long bumpy, blooding, bruising and battering road but I made it back from the Ford (Found On the Road Dead) camp. What happened was in Nov/Dec of 2002 I threw a fit (do that often) because the kid’s car seats wouldn’t fit in my 01 QC and Dodge had just announced they were not revising the "crew cab" from the new 1500’s and were using those on the new 2500/3500 trucks with the new engine. I promptly (3 weeks later) sold the Dodge and bought a Ford Excursion with the 7. 3 powerstroke (yes, I'm mental). I wont belittle myself (lying, I do it all the time) and sink to insulting the Fords (yeah, right. they ARE total junk) I'll just tell you this. I owned that thing for 20 months, it had half the power my Dodge did, (even with an 80HP chip) it went through two crankshaft position sensors in 44K miles, it had (they all do) this turbo surge/stall problem anytime you tried to run more than 15lbs of boost pulling a load and handled about like a canoe full of water (think happy thoughts, Todd).
Anyway, last month we traded that fine representation of a polished turd (I'm holding back, trust me!) for a new 05 Dodge Magnum (yeah, its got a Hemi). I literally asked them to not park it next to my new car; I didn’t want the smell to get on the Magnum. I gotta say, “we love it”.
That left me with two family cars and no truck (sold the 96 Impala SS two weeks ago). Well, last Friday I flew to Texas and drove back another 01 quad cab. I purposely bought this truck in a 2wd, 5spd so I can take it and go play. I plan to get a little ignorant in the HP department on this truck. I left off with 367hp/1080tq on the last truck and plan for the 500hp mark on this one. I have a new VP44 in the mail. Once that’s on, IT’S on!
Don’t bother welcoming me back; I wasn’t really gone in spirit. Having owned four Dodge/Cummins trucks I knew the Cummins was the best engine, just didn’t realize I couldn’t live without it until it was too late. I spent a fortune just trying to get away from that ford and back into a real truck.
you will have to pry my cold dead hands off this truck cause it aint going nowhere! :-laf
Anyway, last month we traded that fine representation of a polished turd (I'm holding back, trust me!) for a new 05 Dodge Magnum (yeah, its got a Hemi). I literally asked them to not park it next to my new car; I didn’t want the smell to get on the Magnum. I gotta say, “we love it”.
That left me with two family cars and no truck (sold the 96 Impala SS two weeks ago). Well, last Friday I flew to Texas and drove back another 01 quad cab. I purposely bought this truck in a 2wd, 5spd so I can take it and go play. I plan to get a little ignorant in the HP department on this truck. I left off with 367hp/1080tq on the last truck and plan for the 500hp mark on this one. I have a new VP44 in the mail. Once that’s on, IT’S on!
Don’t bother welcoming me back; I wasn’t really gone in spirit. Having owned four Dodge/Cummins trucks I knew the Cummins was the best engine, just didn’t realize I couldn’t live without it until it was too late. I spent a fortune just trying to get away from that ford and back into a real truck.
you will have to pry my cold dead hands off this truck cause it aint going nowhere! :-laf
Oh well, you know what they say about a fool and his money. Or at least my wife sez it. :-laf At least they were CTDs 
Atleast Cam sensors are cheaper than VP44's !
Me break something? :-laf ),, the motor took it's worn bearings, bent rods, and exited stage left. 
