8.1, Solves all problems, including money saved over buying a dieselI am always amazed how much more diesels are to comprable trucks. Paid 11.700 for my 04 crew cab dually with an 8.1. Diesel would be 5K more.
8.1, Solves all problems, including money saved over buying a diesel
Btw, I jones for the murdered out excusion on 20's you see around town.
what does that thing get on the highway? 11? 12?Originally Posted by Jackasic
8.1, Solves all problems, including money saved over buying a diesel
After reading that entire dually thread it made me wonder
1. How did it run with 200k before the upgrades?
2. What's the most cost efficient way to get safe power?
3. Is a powerstroke a good choice for a dd? It seems like you had to dump a bunch of money into things like clutches etc.
4. How expensive are parts compared to my bronco.
Last edited by TdmayfieldIV; 12-29-2009 at 02:07 PM.
I bought my F-250 with 100k on it, I sold it with 265k. I daily drove it for like 4 years. I never installed a single "performance part" on it. The heaviest thing I towed was a 4k goose neck with a 6k load (10k), It would do 95+ mph with this 10k load.
At 150k, the throw out bearing on the clutch went out. I put a new clutch and flywheel in it. Travis put some super spank off clutch in his and it f' up. I put the LUK stock like clutch and never had an issue.
Parts, it does not matter if it is Ford, Dodge, or Chevy, if it is a 3/4 or 1 ton parts cost more. Example, my '96 Bronco, I could do a complete clutch job for under $500, my F-250 the parts are closer to $800. The unit bearings on the front axle are like $500 a set.
-Karl
2006 Chevy K3500 4X4 - No J.B. Weld on it yet!
1982 thru 94 F-Series "The Klogger" AKA Transport on the road, on the trail, or on the trailer!
1965 Chevelle
1975 Corvette
Having a hard time understanding why you want a 3/4 or 1-ton diesel truck to take over daily driving duties from your trail rig. Is your trail rig street legal? Relatively reliable? What does your daily drive entail? Hauling heavy machinery? Car payments suck. Driving a beat-ass 4x4 to school kicks ass. Buying a big ass truck so you can be more comfortable driving from bryan to campus every day with the occasional trip to Houston (or wherever your parents live) is retarded. Snip a couple branches off that money tree and fix whatever's wrong with your wheeling rig and you will be much better off in the end.
That being said about F-250's, mine always had a little oil leak.
Clarke has one too, and has similar oil leak issues.
-Karl
2006 Chevy K3500 4X4 - No J.B. Weld on it yet!
1982 thru 94 F-Series "The Klogger" AKA Transport on the road, on the trail, or on the trailer!
1965 Chevelle
1975 Corvette
Like karl said, he had a '99 and put that truck through every kind of hell there is, and it kept coming back for more. Even all bashed up and wore the fork out at 200k+ miles, it still would push you back in the seat if you let it wind up.
I dont prefer the interiors on those trucks or the dodges of that era either for that matter. I could live with the crew cab but the ext cab on karl's 99 was a step away from a jump seat.
I would pimp a powerstroke, i think you'll have trouble finding one with low enough miles below $10k.
As long as you dont try to rice it out, it will be reliable. Karl's was bone stock and pulled one rig just fine and im quite sure it could pull more weight fine.
Travis riced the fork out of his, i bet that's most of his problems (im not going to back to read his whole thread)
Parts for diesels arent cheap like 78 bronco parts will be.
Yeah, my parents will be moving to germany this summer and they want me to have a car that I won't have to work on every weekend. My bronco is in no way reliabe, in fact I will be pulling the motor out as soon as I get back from colorado.
Double post
Last edited by TdmayfieldIV; 12-29-2009 at 03:12 PM.
They run fine with 200K, unless they're worn out. My dad's got one with 230 that's good, my little brother had one with 140 that had enough blow by to blow out the dipstick. Take the oil fill cap off with the engine running, if there's a shocking amount of blow-by coming out, don't buy it.
Just put a 60-80hp tune on it. Seems much more and the clutch will slip.
Gonna be just as good DD as anything else of similar age.
Anything to do with the engine or drivetrain will be much more expensive. Figure 4x for engine, 2x for drivetrain.
Last edited by eight; 12-29-2009 at 03:18 PM.
Before I replaced the 2nd motor in my bronco it was spraying oil out of the dipstick and it had so much crank pressure it crushed ny valley pan
is your bronco a trailer queen?
Nope I drive it every day
Keep logic out of this decision
92 YJ
04 F-150 4x4
11 F-250 4x4
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