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.
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.