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As everyone else, there's a story about how its this way or that way or its trash or its golden. Well, here's a golden story. 2002 F-350 regular cab with a 7.3 and auto trans. This truck was purchased in 2006 by my uncle for his farm for gravity wagon duty(gross weight is 30k + when loaded). I used it last weekend to move a tractor. The bumper pull trailer I used was 4k lbs by itself and the tractor was around 5k. So 9k lbs. I don't accelerate hard ever, let the truck and transmission do what it's used to. Would shift 2k-2100 rpm. TQ locked up around 1400 and it went on its merry way up to 60 on the state road, it took a minute but it got there. Yes, it can be sluggish with weight but that is the way the transmission was designed. Let the truck do its thing and love it. I know when he decides to exchange it for a different truck I will be there with cash in hand to buy that truck from him.
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