Does anyone know any free music production software? Particularly ones that are pretty easy to get a grip on? The one that I used to use is a little limited and they put 80% of the free stuff behind their premium plan, which I'm not all that willing to pay.
You're god damn right. 5W-30 every 3,000 miles and use the new 2-valve 5.4 spark plug design and they're unkillable. Just like the 5.4 3-valve: Use the updated oil pump/timing set, 5W-30 instead of manufacture rated every 3,000 miles. Bulletproof then. The 2009-2010 red-headed step child of the group was weird. They paired the uprated 315HP 3-valve 5.4 with the new 6-speed transmission. My dad had one. It was a rocket ship with that new transmission. That's why I'm a truck guy, too. Trucks have big engines. The side effect of a big engine? They're kinda speedy.
I like the F-150's like that. My dad owns an extended cab truck and it rocks. I can't wait to drive one someday.
I’ve seen 6.8s swapped into standard cab/short bed jelly beans, which seems terrifying and yet absolutely blissful: The engines are unkillable, but the truck is just so subjectively ugly that I struggle to see myself owning one. If I had one, maybe I’d like it, but I can’t see myself seeking out one unless it was a 5.4, or a V6 in order to do a 6.8 2V swap, which might damage it’s unkillable reputation. My personal ranking: 1. 1987-1991 2. 1973-1979 3. 1997-2004 4. 1948-1952 5. 2020-? 6. 1961-1966 7. 1953-1956 8. 1992-1997 9. 1980-1986 10. 2015-2020 11. 2009-2014 12. 1967-1972 13. 2004-2008
I love those trucks, and would like to have one someday. I probably would have had one if I didn’t buy my current truck when I did, because a nice one came up for sale about two weeks later. My dad had an 88 F250, it was a great truck. Had over 300,000 miles on it when he replaced it with a 97 F150, which ended up being junk. He kept it for plowing snow for a few more years, but eventually mice chewed some of the wires, and it wasn’t worth fixing on something that was being driven a half a mile maybe ten times a year. My cousin bought it for parts to fix one of his. Now I really wish we never got rid of it.
I like the way the jellybean Fords look tbh. The problem is that they are unreliable. My neighbor's Excursion shot out a spark plug and my family friend's truck had trouble starting and blew a headgasket or had some other serious problem.
My experience with 5.4 Fords has been nothing but success, apart from one cam phaser in a 3-valve. They just don't do well unmaintained. 700,000 mile Econoline van. 2-valve. Its all about the maintenance. Gardening company it was sold to didnt maintain it, so it shot a rod out the block. A shame.
