kchamb1206

I thank you all. I now have a wealth of arguments for my Ford friend who feels he has been cheated.

A related story: Once as a youth I was riding with an uncle in a truck carrying 21,000 pounds of lime. Problem was the truck was rated for 14,000 pounds, we had to go up a steep mountain called Dixmont mountain (in Maine) and the truck was not a smooth shifter. Out of torque in second gear near the top of the mountain, my uncle went for first gear and missed. He could not get it in gear and the truck began rolling backwards. Brakes would not hold it because he was messing with the shifter and it got rolling on him. He steered the truck into the high side bank, the lime shifted, and the truck tipped over in the road. Good news is we didn't take a ride down the side of the mountain. An automatic tranny might have done better in this situation.

MaineMan