Ford 7.3 gas engine!

$70,000, you getting the hand crank windows, no radio, two wheel drive?

 

People are crazy.

 

I like that song haha

 

I know of a guy who swears by the gas engines. He runs a mechanic service truck and while everyone else deals with EPA crap and check engine lights he just keeps going. I don't think I'd ever touch a modern diesel pickup. 12 valve or gasser lol.

 

Oops I didnt even realize that. Ill get back to the real truckers section lol

 

Years ago my dad ran the international 549 cu. inch. gas engines in semis. Like in the 190 model. ( think that is the model?). The last gas 549 he purchased and drove it home from the plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. That engine was in the fleetstar. ( no more butterfly hood). Fleetstar had a tilt hood. Year was probably 1966 or 67. The 549 made like 235 hp or little more. Dont know what torque. Ford made a simular gas engine, think it was 534 cu inch. So ford is no stranger to big gas engines. Might be a way to go.? Also pretty sure both engines were mostly bolted to a 5 speed trans with a 2 speed rearend.

 

I'd give it a year or two to let other people do the shakedown on this new motor before even considering it.

It seems like all new engines these days usually have big design flaws at first & they let the proud owners pay for R&D.

 

If I was only hauling 24000 I would run a 6 liter LS and let it Rip. Can't kill them things.

If you do their a dime a dozen, and a new crate motor is affordable.


Plenty of radiator for cooling and you wont kill it.i don't know if you can get the Allison behind it.

If not a good manual with a splitter .

I used to haul 25 thousand in a single axle dump for the farm when I was a kid .

Truck was a 68 Chevrolet 3500 or something like that. 327 sbc that ran on 7 cylinders and you had to put 3 quarts of oil in it every 100 miles.

A lot of hills in Michigan but having that 2 speed rearend kept you moving

 

Weren't they getting similar numbers out of the 3.5l TT Ecoboost??

More actually for the Lincoln version... 450 horses, 500 torque

Anyways.... the MSRPs on loaded pickups are outta control. Resales, too. Now if you could find some federal agency that dumps duallies often -- the way Forestry, Fire, and K9 regularly dump barebones 4x4 Ford Expeditions to auction for just a few grand -- that'd be a whole nother ballgame

As it stands, if you want a cavernous SUV that tows 9000, that's $3 - 4k. But if you want a dually... sheet, get some lube for your poor checkbook.