Greater than 0 yes, but still small enough that auxiliary braking add-ons are still a common upgrade or factory equipment on diesel trucks.

Gas engines engine brake because they have a throttle plate that closes and restricts flow of air coming into the engine.  Every gas engine vehicle I’ve ever driven, manual or auto, engine brake better than my 7.3L Diesel did.  I’m not saying a diesel has 0 braking, but it’s such an insignificant amount that exhaust…

Except it doesn’t work that way on Diesels. There’s little to no restriction of gas in or out of the engine (except on the newest EGR diesels). There’s a reason jake brakes, telmas (electromagnetic induction brake), and exhuast brake add-ons exist for Diesels.

Twenty years of inflation is a thing.

Glow plugs aren’t required to make the truck run. Just the lack of functioning glow plugs makes starting below 50F a bitch. I also did all eight glow plugs myself without removing the cab.  The relay was the weak link in that system.  I had to replace it annually.

Diesels have no engine braking without a "Jake" or exhaust brake system.  A stock 7.3 has neither of those.

All super duty trucks have manual locking hubs.  With ESOF 4x4 the hubs are a manual backup for a vacuum actuated automatic lock.  With the diesels the vacuum system was particularly bothersome because of the pathetic electric vacuum pump.

As long as it’s tagged as a farm truck and used for farm purposes you can drive it without a CDL or air brake endorsement.  My uncle’s truck was a tandem twin screw beet truck.  If the piler was any further away, that truck should have had an extra lifting tag axle.

Grid heaters heat the air in the intake tract.  Glow plugs heat the charge in the combustion chamber.

There is a principal of lesser yields to greater. Dirt yields to gravel, gravel yields to pavement, 2 lanes yields to 4. But yeah, there’s a heck of a lot of paved intersections in IA, MN, and MO in the middle of corn country with no controls.

Sure, fat-ass, I’d probably whallop you.

Farm trucks are exempt from requiring a CDL in Texas.  I used to run beets to the piler in my uncle’s old GMC truck with an Eaton Fuller 18 speed.  Keeping up with the digger in the field was more difficult than managing it on the 2 miles of pavement to the piler.

Every corpo-fuck employer has policies that only designated individuals should talk to the press.  I’m a lowly field engineer at a radio company.  Even I’m forbidden from speaking to the press.  Not only that I am subject to an NDA.

Funny you mention that.  The expedition uses the same dial shifter that the other SUVs use instead of the F150 console shifter.

This is patently ridiculous. This is little different than an oem like FoMoCo or GM getting a YouTuber demonetized for featuring one of their cars. Or the basement Lamborghini guy getting his car seized by VAG. Or Even Ford seizing a car from a YouTuber building a 67 fastback replica from a year one body

The manual wasn't exactly an option on the SRT-10.  You could only get it in the regular cab version which had a towing rating of 0.  The automatics are all quad cabs.

New pickups are taller

The problem isn’t that I don’t fly often enough (unless weekly isn’t often enough).  The bigger problem is my company is a cheapskate.  Non-refundable Main cabin only.  Our business is primarily in the Lower 48, and I live in Dallas.  DFW’s proximity to everything means I rarely connect anywhere and the flights aren’t…

I’ve noticed that a small portion of people just don’t get motion sickness.. and even though I usually don’t get motion sickness I sometimes get it when trying to read something on my cell phone after dark in the back seat of a taxi.  I’ve learned to just catch a few winks if I can or take in the sights when I’m not…

There are transparent composites that won’t turn into jagged shards when broken y’know.  Just like tempered glass is a thing.