Does anyone know how much a stock rebuild would cost for a 7.3?

 

Hey Zack are you still looking for donor truck? It's not a 4x4 f350, but it has the dash and stuff you might be looking for.

PARTOUT 1996 F250 7.3l Diesel PARTOUT MAKE AN OFFER

 

I'm still looking for one, but since my dad bought a new f250 for work, we don't really have the storage room for my donor truck so that's going to be on hold for now

I have been wrapping up the body work (slowly) just have to decide what color.

 

I was thinking just the dash, and electronics for the engine, and of course the diesel. It is a 2 wd.

 

I'm pretty sure you need to swap the front cross (engine mounts etc) member as well, not sure if a 2WD donor would work.

 

I believe the mounts line up but the cross is to shallow on a gasser.

 

Somewhere in the 7.3 thread there is a guy that went from a 460 to a PSD and I know he had to change the cross member. He also said something along the lines of, "If you're going to do this swap, you MUST have a complete donor truck."

That being said, a PSD Bronco would be bad ***. I've seen them before under the "Super Bronco" badge. Looks like Super Duty but says Bronco instead.

 

Those are shortened excursions. I've seen a couple of those too, that would have been a bad *** truck for Ford to have built.

 

I know a guy who has 1/7 professionally built by Ford engineers. I'm thinking of selling my bronco and getting a PSD instead. Then just find a bronco body instead.


Thoughts?

Btw the bronco has been my baby for 5 years and in the family for 9 years.

 

Use that bronco, much more sentimental value

 

Now I just have to get the free time to patch the floors cause the body shop wants to charge $800+

 

FWIW to rebuild a 7.3 it can be done for around 3-8k depending on what all your having done or if you do the work yourself it can be cheaper, theres a couple options, you could do this
Riffraff Diesel: Ford Overhaul Kit

or check out swamps diesel performance with there assembled engines
Assembled Performance Engines - Swamp's Diesel Performance

 

I'll be doing the rebuild myself and it would just be for new parts because most of the ones I had found were 280k-340k miles on em.

 

I dont see it being more than 3k than, depending on what all your going to be getting new of.

 

It would probably just be a re-ring/seal kit, maybe a few minor upgrades too.

I don't know much about diesels but I'm learning every day (or trying!)