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Very cool! I like those Marti reports!

I wonder if those seats are from a conversion, like Centurion.

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Honestly, I appreciate your comment. Thats how a comment should be made, respectfully. Anyway, the POINT of doing this is the torque. Running a diesel at optimum rpm is the most efficient way to run the engine. Yes there are losses, but regenerative braking is included, which helps some. The point isn't to get the best fuel mileage, especially in a pickup. This setup works INCREDIBLY well for large industrial applications, and yes, it is more cost effective. There is a lot fewer moving parts, and that means less maintenance, less down time, and thus everything gets more cost efficient for the operator. Not to mention the reduction in operator stress from a machine that barely makes any noise while operating. The drilling rigs are operating completely off batteries part of the time....imagine being able to hear your rigging creaking and popping, instead of a diesel motor constantly running. For a pickup truck, it might make less sense, but this is AMERICA, where if we want to put 8,800ftlb of torque @ 1rpm in a 3/4 ton truck, we can, and we do, and we will because it's awesome. MURICA! I drive this truck once or twice a week. I engineer from home. So I don't need to drive it daily. About 25% of the time I am towing a trailer. The 7.3 idi in the hilly part of KY I live in is lacking power. Its pathetic actually. The gear vendors helps a lot, and honestly only makes it just bearable on the two very steep hills on both sides of me. Yeah I can turbo charge, but thats lame compared to 4000-8800 lbft torque. I mean, what do you want, a .22LR or a Bradley Tank? Uh...duh. I don't care if it makes sense or not! I don't need it....but I want it. The founders of Edison Motors aren't idiots, they are actually very successful businessmen with a Canadian/American entrepreneurial spirit, lots of experience in the blue collar truck driving world, fabrication etc. In the least, they aren't armchair internet trolls that use forums for an ego validating echo chamber like a lot of so called experts I see online. They've looked at the Tesla truck, and said its ridiculous and over engineered, and made their own electric truck using existing parts, and brought it to market 10X faster than Old Elon has. And it works!! I'd say that's pretty SMART!! DEBOSS GARAGE has officially partnered with them, and all their official installation franchises are SOLD OUT. Anyway...maybe I'll update this thread as I go along, I don't know. I used to think I belonged here, but just about every time I get back on I get a certain someone nay-saying and poo-pooing my opinions so they can get a moment of self satisfaction through bullying. So, I'll probably just disappear again, because I have better things to do than to argue with a troll about anything. I had an 88 7.3 like you, but with the ZF5. And I had turbo envy!

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That's cool Bill! Sorry about your back, hope you get better. I have stenosis in three places (I know, stay outta those three places!). Shots haven't helped, just dealing with it. Standing is the worse for me.

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Doesn't Chad/Beefy have a 460 in a Bronco?

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Looking back I think this is what I said that made you think of a hook. But I wasn't talking about a hook, I was talking about a pintle hitch, also called a pintle hook (see that link for an example). That works as a STRONG recovery point, and also a smooth, solid piece to skid across the rocks. But now seeing how low Big Blue's receiver is with respect his bumper, I don't think the additional protection from a pintle hook would be worth the cost in departure angle. And to Gary's point about the strength of the closed shackle vs an open hook, I'm sure that's true. But my main thought is that a strap (or whatever) can come off a hook if you let the tension off, while the closed shackle is not going to let it go. By the way, the piece of equipment I'm calling a shackle is called shackle, hard shackle, bow shackle or D-ring in the 'wheeling community. The rigging industry (where it actually comes from) calls it a clevis. Another option that I'd like to get into is a soft shackle. They have a lot more flexibility (no pun intended) around where you can connect them. And they're soft and light, so they don't become a projectile if something breaks. But they don't give them away! And since I'm still using a wire rope on my winch the safety aspect of the soft shackle is kind of wasted, so I haven't gone that route yet. OK, yes, a pintle, pictures help. Funny about the clevis nomenclature. When I was Heli-logging we had a front end loader operator who found out I was from the Midwest. He grabs a shackle and comes up to me and tells everybody to listen, then he asks me what it is, I said a shackle, he say see, and then I said or a clevis, because that's what the loggers called them, and everybody chuckled and he says no, he said shackle first. Those guys had been teasing him for a while. Big guy, but man could he move some logs!

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