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Dude, I had a 89 with the 6.9l. The 7.3 is a beast. Thoses navistar motors are tough. The automatics are guttless, but the manuals do just fine. I had an 83 6.9 with a four speed split. It was a great driver and was well over 360k on original motor and tranny when I gave it to our shop's mechanic's kid. I see that kid mobbing that beast all of the time.

Oh yeah, I'm already in love with this truck. Thing is fun as hell to drive around. Room for a bunch of us and all out junk to haul up to the sand.

Don't turbo it. You with have nothing but problems. To do it right, you will spend more the banks kit and parts than the truck is worth. My buddy did his and it always had issues.

If you want, I can whip up some plastic guns, and you can strap them on your truck....oh, wait, that has been done....my bad.... :lol:

You want to experience gutless.... Get in my mazda b2300 with 225/75/15 tires and put the air conditioner on.... You cannot even make peoples heads jerk around by popping the clutch.

Well.. It might be an awesome truck, but it has a retarded owner. I ran out of fuel today.... now, it wasn't 100% my fault, but still pretty annoying.

Over 150k on an aspirated diesel + trurbo= bad shit.

Yeah, as soon as it ran out of fuel I knew it was going to be a major pain in the butt. I know enough about diesels to know they don't like air in the fuel lines. I just couldn't get it bled on the side of the road and it wasn't worth the time/effort to mess with it after the batteries started to die. Just easier to deal with at home.

Yea old ford fuel sending units are famous for nonsense like that. It will work some times and other times not at all. I used to go by milage instead of the rear tank....the sending unit was always off.

Last night at work I took a shortcut through automotive and noticed a freshly rebuilt non turbo 7.3 IDI sitting next to a brown truck getting ready to go in it. Thought that was pretty badass. All the diesel UPS trucks I've ever driven were cummins.