Also, who is a good aftermarket company who sells heavy duty front bumpers, that would hold a winch?
I have the same truck as you except 08. I would change the oil now and I change mine every 3000. I have always used Ford Synthetic Blend 5w-20 from Walmart. Its the cheapest price I have found. I drive at least 150 miles a day usually with 500 lbs +/- in the bed and tow maybe every other mth. The most I have pulled is either a Cat 257 Rubber track loader or a Cat 302.5 execavator. Like you say, it pulled it , but started real slow and milage was still 8-9 mpg, but the tow command works great, even pulling in the snow. I have put on a Flowmaster Exhaust and Air Raid filter with really no improvement in mpg, but my dogs can hear me coming way before I get home. My milage has always been 14.1- 14.9 since I put on Nitto Terra Grapplers, stock size. I was getting 15 + with the origional Goodyears( 54,000 on first set) and checked the brakes at 75,000 and still had 1/2 pad left on origional pads. The only problem I have ever had was the blend door and the hvac system. I sometimes wish I had
