I went to multiple ford dealers, and locaters, but outside of the STX or fully loaded lariats and above. There was zero that fell into what I wanted (7.3/10r140, and heated seats), plus my friend getting me a gms discount code, the trailboss fell to the price they were selling the stx 6.8 f250’s at…. So it was a “well, this is what’s falls into place”
I’ve loved my 6.2, so it’s still going to be sad to see it go, but I never let it run the DFM, I ran the pulsar lt in it, and when it’s not hooked up, I did the L9 and click off the start/stop, it’s always shifted like it has alllll the line pressure, and at an idle in gear you can feel the motor basically randomly misfiring, I’ve been suspect of the lifters in the truck for a long time. But it never throws a code? I’ve started it more then once and gotten out to watch the motor rocking back and forth as if it’s running on 7 or less cylinders… now I never commented it to my dad who went along to the dealer and his first comment in the 2500 was “wow this runs smoother then your current truck”.
I’ve never had an issue with my rock tamers melting, but they have been modified from previous trucks that I have it flipped around to go under the bed/bumper, and drilled extra bolt holes to secure it to the hitch (it was busted so I took it to work and milled it on a mill and tried something, and it worked, so it has zero chuck in it now)
it’s a moderately loaded truck, compared to my 21, I’m losing the sunroof (good riddance it was a gurgling nightmare with water in it), the leather and a the bose audio package (that’s about the only sad part, but oh well). Here’s the window sticker from it though