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1999 V-10 Ford - Any good?

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Looking at a used 1999 4x4 Ford 3/4 or 1 ton with a V-10 in it 140K on the clock. Auto trans. Intended use would be pulling a 24' trailer on a hilly route every day. Curious how it does MPG wise and if they are troublesome. (Yes, I am in the 7.2-8.5 MPG range with a diesel now but the engine just let go on me.)

Friend owns the truck and this is the only reason I am looking at it.
 
I'd stay away from it. Not because its a Ford but rather the V10 motor. They are powerful, no doubt about it. But where you may be able to pull that trailer at 1800rpm going up hill at 65mph, that V10 is going to have to be screaming at around 4 to 5K to do the same. And even then the torque wont be as great.

Mileage wise... Well I used to complain my dads old hummer(H2) couldn't do any better than 10mpg with no load. That was with the vortec V8. I've heard alot of the V10 guys getting around 8mpg at best on the highway and about 2 to 3mpg on the highway towing. Unfortunately I'm not BS'ing you there

Plus with 140K on the clock your going to have to beat the piss out of that motor to get it to work like your used to (diesel that is). That could lead to a bit of a short life span. But if your truck just let go and your friend is willing to help you out then perhaps. Just weight out the pro's...(if there are any :rofl:) with the con's.

Good luck :thumbsup:
 
I wouldn't buy one because they like to spit spark plugs. But, the Old man before he bought a pusher had coachman with a V10 and he got 9 mpg with it lugging around 33' of class A motorhome pulling an overloaded 20' car trailer........ the Old man never BS's about being overloaded or mileage (same guy drags a 36' 14,000 lb 5er and same 20 car trailer behind an 03 6sd 2500 ram). The ones you here of getting crap for towing are going to either be lifted 4wd ...... abused ....... in desperate need of a tune up..... pulling a really heavy trailer ........ or towing the trailer down the hwy at 80 mph or any combination. My uncle gets 10 mpg with his 99 V10 F250 but I have had to helicoil the heads twice now because if it is not ice cold when you twist the spark plugs in the whole 3 threads then the engine will spit them back out..... The one time I used it to pull my 25' 5er it got 9 mpg all the way to Arizona..... 1 mpg better than the 460 in the Crew Cab dually I wish I still had.
 
Thanks.
10-4 on high RPM. The 395 HP Trail Blazer SS I used Friday would rev to 5500 RPM, redline 6500 RPM, pulling the hills. But it was getting 8.5 MPG. It isn’t big enough to be stable towing this heavy trailer even with the WD hitch bars on.
 
Anubis said it, they shoot spark plugs out all the time. I'm guessing you'd get 6mpg at the best. I know a couple guys in the V-10 club and they can't pass a gas station.
 
Ive got an 08 F350 with a V-10 at work and I pull about a 10,000 lb tractor and drill with it, it does ok on the flats but you start pulling hills and look out! I had it floored pulling a minor hill and 20 was my top speed, I was starting to get worried it was going to make it up. The milage is 11-12 empty highway and pulling is 8. Im not impressed with it at all.
 
Dad has a friend that had one. It was a CCLB F250 V10 auto 2wd. It got over 15 when it was on long highway only empty trips driven conservatively, and returned about 10 on mixed trips. He finally sold it, didnt like working on it or fueling it.
 
OK, Ok! I don't want to do worse that what I have now! Round trip is 6.X MPG now on the SS.
 
As stated in previous posts the 99-04 2-valve v-10's do spit plugs and as for the engine screaming under load on hills they have that nailed as well. My 2005 V-10 is of the 3-Valve design and even though these do not spit plugs (Now they just don't come out) they still are screamers when under load. I have had 15K on the back of mine but still got 9.4 MPG in mixed driving. I usually get 11.6 around town empty and just took a trip to Lebanon WA and got 12.8 on freeway towing empty car trailer and 10.2 backhauling with an old Scout strapped to it. I would stay away from the 2-Valve V-10's and if you tow a bunch you need to hang with a diesel. Your gas card will like it better.....IMHO.
 
When the aftermarket tool companies make a special kit designed just for the V-10 for heli-coiling the park plugs without head removal, you know there is a MAJOR design problem with em. A friend of mine runs a small shop, and he does probably one a week as he does alot of commercial work trucks. He was howing me some of the tools he bought just for tehse engines, and I couldn't believe some of em. I know it's a decent engine, but the possibility of a spark plug coming out is just not right.
 
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