Your cheating.....everyone knows the 7.3 is awesome....your just rubbing it in lol.I got 97 F450 7.3, with 6000# crane, 240000 miles - that engine starts in two seconds without glow plugs at 32F.
The thing is - I got another 96 7.3 on f250 4x4 - that one when it gets below 50F turns into ether addict!Your cheating.....everyone knows the 7.3 is awesome....your just rubbing it in lol.
7.3 nowhere near as loud as 12 valve!All my 7.3 started good once i upgraded the glowplugs...they were loud and drank fuel...but for the year they beat the 6.2 chev and 6.5 for that matter...the cummins was pretty much always good in that generation
Yep never had to wonder if it was running or not.7.3 nowhere near as loud as 12 valve!
That 5.9 is a ear popper!
dporter... Thanks & thanks to everyone as fas as that goes. I understand that all will need work at some point. I by no means am looking for pure trash, it wouldn’t be a everyday work truck just kinda use it around my place piddlin on my own Equipment. I’ll go check it over the best I can & base my decision from there. I hate so many bad things have been said but I’m glad too. At least I know what I may be getting into.
Mount a couple 45 gallon drums on roof....like those beer redneck hats?I heard that if you delete everything unnecessary on that engine it can be really easy on fuel. Around 20gpm empty riding, don’t know if it’s true. IRP bolts could help with heads, but what to do with constant oil leak problems - I still don’t know that secret!
Funny, my main work truck is a '98 Chevy K3500 with a 6.5 too. 220,000 miles now, 1 injector pump at 160,000 miles, 1 PMD (since relocated) Not much else so far. Oh, 5 glow plugs last winter.All joking aside, I know several guys that have them in personal trucks and do okay, minor problems.
The industrial setting is what seems to do them in in my part of the world.
I have run a few of them in F550 shop trucks. I HATED the gear jammers. The 6.0 likes to rev so the automatic made it much nicer, would let it get up into its power band. I did lots of off hiway mountain driving on logging roads.
I bought a 98 Chevy with the 6.5 in it against all of my friends advise, it was 5 years old when I got it.
They are not the best engine either but here it is 2019 and I still have it. I have 3 of the magic black boxes in my glove compartment ready for the next time it decides to crap out on me. We have a real love hate relationship.
It’s all comes down to price! At this point pay more attention to crane and body, I wouldn’t get anything less then 6000# crane! My 6000# only rated 675# fully stretched out, 6000 is fully redacted and lifted high, basically right at trucks side.I’m bout to think maybe if this one has 300,xxx plus miles maybe all the updates have been done & problems fixed to be able to have that many miles. It’s also been a company fleet maintained truck, so maybe the maintenance has been kept up a little better. Ahh no need to worry about it till I ask some more info on it.
Those old Detroits as far ask know not that bed beside controller, but if you relocated -shouldn’t give you much trouble. Is your transmission manual?Funny, my main work truck is a '98 Chevy K3500 with a 6.5 too. 220,000 miles now, 1 injector pump at 160,000 miles, 1 PMD (since relocated) Not much else so far. Oh, 5 glow plugs last winter.
It's not a powerhouse, but it's been reliable. and hits 15 MPG most of the time.