Need Your Advice on Truck Purchase

If you can swing a deal on this truck you can buy a kit.
Get one with a Detroit, make sure it was built with only genuine Detroit parts, except turbo, get a BW turbo and never look back.
That w9 will eat you alive.you start putting team miles on that truck and you will lose your ***.

 

I wouldn't rule out a good deal on a truck with DEF entirely, considering there are plenty of trucks equipped with it that are running fine.

If you're already over the road, you can try to check for trucks along your route. We flew out to check out the truck we bought. We figured if the truck was good, we'd take 2 days and drive it back. If it wasn't, we'd run around and check more dealers or just relax and fly back later.

 

Wasn't this asked before in another thread?

To the OP, this is too much money for a truck this old - PERIOD.

It is only worth $15k tops.

 

Yes you can take a pre emissions truck into cali only if you don't get caught. It has to be a 2008 or newer to be legal.