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Man, I’m dying to hear about the 7.3 buddy. I’ve been thinking it might be a lot easier than any of the new diesels. My 3500 has been in the shop now for 2 months waiting on recall parts. I’m slowly getting tired of new diesels and the BS wrapped around them.

Did you order anything special with yours? 4.30 gears?

Okay, thank you. 10k is a pretty normal load.

I have a 40ft toyhauler that’s 15-18k loaded and a 26ft Gooseneck I use to pull my tractor and implements around that is probably 10-15k depending on what I’ve got on it.

It’d be nice if you could hook up a trailer that weighed 10k at a dealer just to get an idea of what it does!

I’ve had 3 Cummins powered trucks and they’ve been pretty easy pulling but from the sounds of it, the 7.3 has a good amount of grunt as well.

Which gears do you have in your truck?

Mine has 3.73's

If not in a hurry, they seem to offer a very strong pricing structure. Got my engine break in done I think. That big sucker is getting 15 plus mpg driving around town. Kind of hard to believe. So far so good. Need to kill a deer and get some blood on the thing.

I got an email from Ford today about the updated 2023 super duties. It looks like they dropped the 6.2 and replaced it with a 6.8, but still have the 7.3. There were no hp or torque specs listed. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but what the hell do I know.

I see Chevy/GMC are coming out with the Allison 10sp in the gas HD trucks. That will be a nice feature.

I am at 7600 ft+. I go to Denver about every other month. 5600ft and my trip to Grand Canyon varied but they were 23 mpg.
My elk hunting where I am at 17,000 pounds is going over two 10,000 ft passes the rest of it varies from 5000 ft to 8000 feet. 300 miles each way That varies somewhat between 13 and 14 depending on how heavy my foot is. These are not one time trips. [/b]This is what truck computer is telling me.[b]

Before I had this Chevy, I had a 98 Dodge diesel, 5 sp Std, Stock rear end . It got 12mpg pulling the same load, same trips and about 18 on open hwy.

Here where I live its up and down and I don't get quite the open hwy mileage.

Different gearing makes a big difference.

If not in a hurry, they seem to offer a very strong pricing structure. Got my engine break in done I think. That big sucker is getting 15 plus mpg driving around town. Kind of hard to believe. So far so good. Need to kill a deer and get some blood on the thing.

I got an email from Ford today about the updated 2023 super duties. It looks like they dropped the 6.2 and replaced it with a 6.8, but still have the 7.3. There were no hp or torque specs listed. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but what the hell do I know.

How are you getting that at altitude? I'm at 1600' and traffic here is similar to Denver. I was there 3 years ago for a week. I an getting a combined 13. I can get 15.5 if I can get an open stretch of 10-2 miles of uninterrupted traffic.

In the roll out video for SD's they mentioned a new intake manifold and tuning for a power boost but no numbers.
Figures, I would finally pull the trigger on a 22 and it gets a power upgrade in 23. If the 6.8 numbers match the current 7.3 power numbers and is the standard motor then that would seem to be a good deal.
There are a lot of creature comfort upgrades and the electronics seem to be getting better or more complicated. I keep my trucks for a long time so this is a concern in the back of my mind.

I got an email from Ford today about the updated 2023 super duties. It looks like they dropped the 6.2 and replaced it with a 6.8, but still have the 7.3. There were no hp or torque specs listed. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but what the hell do I know.