Posted by oldtanker on January 04, 2017 at 09:04:55 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Tractor hauler posted by Tracto-man on January 03, 2017 at 19:58:52:
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Thing is you fail to mention year model. My SIL, a BIL and 2 nephews have owned or currently own diesels. One nephew paid big money to replace the injectors in his. BIL sold his cheap for the same reason. The other nephew has dumped a lot of money in his. My SIL has almost 300K on his and it's been great. All of them were 2000 or newer. On top of that my SIL's brother has his near new diesel at the dealer yet again for warranty work on the engine, again. That one is a RAM. My SIL has an F350. My BIL's was a Chevy Duramax. Seems like every now and then a good one slips through but the newer ones seem to be the problem. My BIL and one nephew are driving gas trucks now.
For the OP. If you are looking in the late 80's and 90's range don't pass up on a Ford with the 460 V8. Cheap to maintain, lots of power and I know it's hard to believe not too bad of fuel mileage provided it's not geared wrong. The diesels and big block gassers provided the power and torque that allowed better gearing for mileage. Friend of mine when he bought his first new truck in the early 90's ordered it. He wanted a diesel but had never owned one. So he wanted an F250, manual and 4:10 gearing. Then spent years complaining about the mileage. One of my SILs bought a used one set up the same way. The 460 or the diesels set up the same way with gearing in the 3:55 or a bit steeper have plenty of pulling power and get decent mileage. I owned an older carb equipped 460 with a pre lockup non overdrive auto. 3:73 gearing IIRC. It would pull anything and got 13 unloaded at 75. 11 loaded heavy pulling a trailer to boot. A friend has a 96 F250, 460, E4OD tranny, fuel injected. He claims 18 unloaded. Having fuel injection and the OD tranny I can believe that.
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