If you want to discuss further PM me.Where in Texas? It’s a big state.
If you want to discuss further PM me.Where in Texas? It’s a big state.
Where in Texas? It’s a big state.
Based on posting history, Victoria.
Diesel threads always end up just like Yeti threads and Glock threads.I had a last gen 7.3L and a 6.0.
After owing my 2012 Cummins I wouldn’t own a 7.3 or 6.0 if you gave it to me.
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Diesel threads always end up just like Yeti threads and Glock threads.
MacZC7,
Fwiw, MY personal favorite is the "old-school" 6.9 IH V8 (usually in 1980s F250/350 Ford trucks) or the Cummins 4BT (industrial engine) installed (swapped-into) in a PU or the almost as "old school" Cummins 6BT/5.9L.
ADDENDA: The 7.3 IDI is also FINE, IF one assures by a THROUGH/CAREFUL PPI that there is NO internal erosion of cylinders/water jackets. - The last of the 7.3 IDI engines were installed in the early Spring of 1994.
Everyone is WELCOME to buy any other sort but the OLD, SIMPLE, MECHANICAL, NORMALLY ASPIRATED diesels are what I like/want in a "pulling"/work truck, especially with a ZF 5-speed behind it.
(Those diesels are about as near BULLETPROOF as diesel engines come. = In over 3 decades, I've NOT seen any of the 3 engines "worn-out in service".)
yours, satx
That's all fine and dandy if you're okay topping out at 60 mph on flat roads.
Engines that don't produce much power tend to live long lives.
Don't fool yourself into believing they are somehow superior to anything new on the road today. If they had anything to offer they'd still be an option.
That's all fine and dandy if you're okay topping out at 60 mph on flat roads.
Engines that don't produce much power tend to live long lives.
Don't fool yourself into believing they are somehow superior to anything new on the road today. If they had anything to offer they'd still be an option.
That's all fine and dandy if you're okay topping out at 60 mph on flat roads.
Engines that don't produce much power tend to live long lives.
Don't fool yourself into believing they are somehow superior to anything new on the road today. If they had anything to offer they'd still be an option.
Dawico,
PITY that you OBVIOUSLY haven't driven a 6.9 with a 5-speed ZF out on the (often steep/hilly) roads of Texas. = My niece (Tara) got a ticket from the THP outside of Greenville in 2015, while pulling a ski-boat on a trailer, for 88 MPH in a 65 MPH area . = I ended up paying the about 100.oo fine/court costs, as the truck was in the farm's name.
FYI, the 7.3 IDI in a F-350 will easily break the 100MPH barrier.
The MAIN reason that the IDI engine is no longer in Ford trucks is that it was cheaper to build their own 7.3 diesel than pay royalties for the International Harvester engine.
yours, satx
What’s next...organizing a diesel truck rally in an Academy parking lot showing off fender well color changing LEDs, mud tires that only see pavement and light bars to blind oncoming traffic?
It is superior. Jk.It has turn knobs and big giant icons for the radio. Just wish the truck had manual windows too! LolThat's all fine and dandy if you're okay topping out at 60 mph on flat roads.
Engines that don't produce much power tend to live long lives.
Don't fool yourself into believing they are somehow superior to anything new on the road today. If they had anything to offer they'd still be an option.