460, 7.3 n/a IDI,or chevy 6.0L

[fastpakr]

I thought it already had a trans command? Either way, sounds like a good truck.

 

[Ozwynn]

oh yeah it does ...... i was just looking at stuff to buy for it and added that to the list.

 

[Ozwynn]

can't buy it. the accepted my offer over the phone and I show up today to buy it with cash in hand and they were selling it to somebody else.

I quit, I want to take a break from the world. Don't get me started on my insurance company

 

[Sevensecondsuv]

That's why when I see a vehicle I want, I get cash in my hand, call the guy, and keep him on the line until I get there and give him the cash.

Then again you can't really blame the seller. If you've ever tried selling used vehicles you get a lot of offers over the phone and then no one ever shows up to the complete the deal.

Moral of the story is: keep cash available (at home, not in the bank) at all times and buy the thing as soon as you make a decision. Offers over the phone are useless. I wouldn't hold a vehicle for someone until they gave me a cash deposit.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

I don't know about you, but I don't, nor would I ever keep $4K inside my house, lol...

 

[Ozwynn]

I had a deposit on it, we were dickering over price and he accepted it yesterday on the phone. atleast they gave me my deposit back

 

[Rico]

Sue him!!!

I usually don't throw that card out there but that is crazy. That seller is such a loser.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

Well, now it only means you get to go find a better one

 

[Ozwynn]

nope. not going to buy one. gonna go back to the original plan of using a tractor with a roll deck to pull a travel trailer

 

[Sevensecondsuv]

I had a deposit on it, we were dickering over price and he accepted it yesterday on the phone. atleast they gave me my deposit back

He had a deposit and he still sold it? Now that is wrong, and grounds for a lawsuit. I wouldn't let him get away with that crap.

 

[Will]

Buy a schoolbus. Mine goes along at 60mph and gets 12mpg. I've cruised it at 70 before. And it was cheaper than the truck you were looking at. Fill it with bunkbeds, kitchen, bathroom, leather captains seats for the adults and dinettes for the kids and you're still around the price of that F350. And you can still tow something and have your living quarters. And feel safe with your kids in it--unlike the styrofoam RVs.

Edit: An unrelated thing, but I found all of the torque curves for GM engines here. the PL column in the chart is the dyno curves. Wish Ford had something like this on their media site. They give specs but I didn't see the curves. The Colorado 3.7 I-5 and the Envoy 4.2 I-6 are pretty stout engines. The Colorade 2.9 is a dog though.

Here's the good-ol' 4.3, one of my favorites. Beastly.

 

[Ozwynn]

my neighbors would throw a fit with a school bus parked out here...... hhhhmmmmm...... <scratches chin> I'll have to look into it.

 

[Will]

You are planning to have a travel trailer. Takes up the same space and tends to sit and grow weeds because it's an extra step to move it. A bus, you jump in and go. Paint it decently and they won't mind.

Here's the link from a while back. I don't know if you saw it.

I don't have a finished outside picture. The paint is done. It is in Will colors--green lower 2/3s, whit upper third, thick red stripe seperating.

Here's Halloween--shows part of the paint job and all of the utility. We took both families--mine and my brothers, Trick or Treating--everyone properly belted. Bathroom on hand. Dinner prepared on board. No stress. A bus isn't unattractive if you give a subtle paintjob.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

The 2.9L in my base W/T 5sp Colorado hauls it around with plenty of giddyup.

later,
Dustin

 

[Will]

Looking at the curve, I'll bet up to 2800rpm the Ford 2.9 V6 curve looks identical. Then, on the GM 2.9 you can see where the VVT switches from RV cam profile to hotrod cam profile and the torque surges back up and keeps the power curve climbing. Before VVT, with a hotrod cam profile, you could follow that second lump in the torque curve back down at the same slope as the first curve and see that you would have 100ft# at 2,000rpm and nothing worth mentioning at 1,000rpm. You either had a hotrod motor that made lots of power but needed deep gears and a loose converter (with an auto), or a zippy motor that fell on it's face. With VVT and multiple plenum volume intakes, you can have it both ways.