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should i stay or should i go now?
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03ranger30
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yeah that is what I meant haha thanks for clarifying
You have an F250 with an 8,600# GVWR that weighs 8,000# empty? Time to powerwash the depleted uranium dust out of the frame rails.
I wouldn't get a 5.8 truck. Sucks fuel, bad for towing. We did 2 tests a number of years ago. First, an F250 vs a 6.2 diesel with a Banks turbo--identical trailers and loads and trucks set up the same--Ford with 3.55s and auto and Chevy with 3.42s and auto--3/4-ton 4x2, single cabs. The 5.8 burned more than twice the fuel on a 400 mile one-way trip and could not keep up on the hills--at all. It was probably 3x the fuel. It was bad.
Next, same trailer and load, was 4.3 Jimmy vs the same F250 in a drag race. I was driving the F250 that time, confident that I would punish the Jimmy. That's not what happened. The Jimmy drove away and left me. We were pulling about 5,500# each and started off going up a hill. I was slapping the dash like a porn star but could not get that bich to go.
I really don't know anything good to say about that F250. On the curves it felt like it was going to steer itself off of the road and my ass was biting chunks out of the seat. That TIB with some tongue weight didn't feel stable compared to what I'm used to.
I'd get the straight-axle truck and swap your motor into it. Put the 5.lame into the white truck and sell it.
I wouldn't get a 5.8 truck. Sucks fuel, bad for towing. We did 2 tests a number of years ago. First, an F250 vs a 6.2 diesel with a Banks turbo--identical trailers and loads and trucks set up the same--Ford with 3.55s and auto and Chevy with 3.42s and auto--3/4-ton 4x2, single cabs. The 5.8 burned more than twice the fuel on a 400 mile one-way trip and could not keep up on the hills--at all. It was probably 3x the fuel. It was bad.
Next, same trailer and load, was 4.3 Jimmy vs the same F250 in a drag race. I was driving the F250 that time, confident that I would punish the Jimmy. That's not what happened. The Jimmy drove away and left me. We were pulling about 5,500# each and started off going up a hill. I was slapping the dash like a porn star but could not get that bich to go.
I really don't know anything good to say about that F250. On the curves it felt like it was going to steer itself off of the road and my ass was biting chunks out of the seat. That TIB with some tongue weight didn't feel stable compared to what I'm used to.
I'd get the straight-axle truck and swap your motor into it. Put the 5.lame into the white truck and sell it.
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Two of fords best motors, but I wouldnt sell a diesel for a gasser.
BUT if you were to buy the gasser they do make conversion kits to swap a cummins to a sbf bolt pattern
BUT if you were to buy the gasser they do make conversion kits to swap a cummins to a sbf bolt pattern
Well the 351 is far from one of fords best motors, i'm not even sure its on the top 10. That aside i'd keep the 351 before i put a cumins in a ford...
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Then just find a nice 7.3 to build up and swap in and make a badass tow rig
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I have been lobbying to no avail for dad to put his 5.9 Perkins in his F-350... they are a really neat engine.
Pretty cheap if you know where to work, we got ours for its scrap value out of a burned up combine (just needs a fuel filter housing) Still has the paint on the rest of it.
IIRC there was quite a difference in gearing between those two rigs as well... been a lot of water under the bridge since then so I may be wrong.
Ford pretty much kept it hobbled IMO with heads that would have been much happier on a 302 (or even the same heads that were available for the 302)
351w was a wicked motor! Solid, reliable, decent power...
The 460 is an even better motor though... 89 f-250 super cab lb, 460, 4x4 twin sticks, the thing had so much torque it wasn't even funny! I got 12mpg uphill, 12mpg downhill, 12mpg city, 12mpg highway, 11mpg with 2500lbs of wet fill in the box around the city
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The 460 is an even better motor though... 89 f-250 super cab lb, 460, 4x4 twin sticks, the thing had so much torque it wasn't even funny! I got 12mpg uphill, 12mpg downhill, 12mpg city, 12mpg highway, 11mpg with 2500lbs of wet fill in the box around the city
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I voted to walk...only because I can't remember how many discussions I've heard about what is best and what is worst....
Why not just rebuild? The truck looks like it's in very good shape for a 95 (although the picks look more like a later model because my neighbor just bought a 6 cyl 95 that looks more boxy than yours)...
you'd probably be farther ahead in the long run...with that many miles I would say the engine and tranny have a pretty good reliability factor...
Why not just rebuild? The truck looks like it's in very good shape for a 95 (although the picks look more like a later model because my neighbor just bought a 6 cyl 95 that looks more boxy than yours)...
you'd probably be farther ahead in the long run...with that many miles I would say the engine and tranny have a pretty good reliability factor...
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if your neighbor's looks more "boxy (I'm guessing by that poor description that the headlights are more rectangular)," than it's older than a 1995, its the previous generation f150. I'm 100% sure.
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^^ We have a winner.
The body style of the two trucks that Chicken pictured was used from 92 to 96. The previous body style, the "big screen TV trucks" as they were called, were used from 87 to 91.
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Ooops, sorry...you're both correct...I checked the pics again and realized what was different...CHKNFKR's truck is lifted...has those side steps/guards and my neighbour's truck has different bumpers...and not chrome...although I dislike chrome personally...
And if I'm not mistaken (since I moved away a few months ago I've only seen his truck around town a few times) the box is shorter...making it appear more "boxy"...
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87-96/7 Ford trucks are all pretty much a brick... hard to get more boxy than a brick.
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