Vans are great and all, but we wanted more power, more space, and four-wheel-drive. We're turning this truck into the ultimate racing hauler.
Now that our 2001 Ford F-250 has found a new home, let's reflect on what worked–and what didn't.
We're putting our Ford F-250 up for sale.
We have the experts at Auto Clinic of Ormond Beach and Precision Transmission Center tear into our transmission to see what went wrong.
Which limited-slip differential is right for our F-250?
We upgrade the suspension of our F-250 to mitigate the side effects of the underdamped stock setup.
To avoid having to pay for power at the track, we decided to add a reliable way to charge the camper's battery.
Before we could tow with our Ford F-250, we needed to secure our slide-in camper as well as work out a solution that will allow us to safely tow a …
Before we could enjoy our slide-in camper, we had to restore it.
Learning from our mistakes from our previous Super Van, we knew it was time to upgrade the brakes on our Ford F-250 tow vehicle.
Now that our Ford F-250 is up to par, we can start improving it: We’re adding an electric winch.
Put simply, our F-250 needed more power. No, not more horsepower--its V10 makes plenty of horsepower--but more electricity. A new battery is all it took to fix it.
We sold the mud tires that came with our 2001 Ford F-250, and put the stock wheels and tires back on the truck. The only problem? They were old--dry rotting …
In our last update, we spent a week and $1000 fixing all of the little issues that kept our F-250 from being a usable truck. There was one (big) issue …
Before we could start towing with the F-250–never mind improving it enough to earn its future name as the Super Truck–we needed to start fixing its problems.
We're breaking from a lifetime of vans and switching to a pickup truck.
