Is This A Good Buy 96 F-350 For $3350

SWMO F-350 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 10:50 AM

1996 LETS TRY AGAIN F350 POWERSTROKE SUPER DUTY W/ TURBO

Owner says its real clean and will pull anything.Has 220,000 miles and the motor and tranny have never had any major work.Has a slight miss between 40-50 mph so may need new injectors?

I'm ready to get rid of my underpowered 1991 F-350 IDI that gets 7 mpg at 45-50 mph pulling a 25 foot gooseneck.

14psd · #2 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 11:19 AM

ok I did a kbb on it and here is the link.
1996 Ford F350 - Private Party Pricing Report - Kelley Blue Book
For what it's worth (kbb that is). Now from personal experience as you can see I have just over 200K on my truck. I just dropped $3200 on my trans. I have it built! You can expect to have to do something soon if plan on doin alot of heavy haulin'. The price seems good in my opinion. See if he has the maintenance records that will tell you ALOT about the truck. Find out as much as possible from the seller as you can. If you go to drive it see if you can try and start it on a cool day below 45* to check gps and gpr thats any easy kicker for price for you. Well thats my 0.02 . Good luck.

Brown Falcon · #3 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 11:42 AM

Good price. If it's an auto it will probably need a transmission soon if it's still the stock one. I'd check maintenance records like 14PSD said.

That miss could be a lot of things. Low fuel pressure, something electronic... probably not injectors.

foxracing0934 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 01:47 PM

I don't know how willing you are to travel to get the truck but someone else just posted a real clean truck, same as that one just white and it's a standard so you won't have to worry about the tranny. And it's got like 147,000 on it or something close to that. It was in SC I think and it was like 4,800

SWMO F-350 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 01:20 AM

Thanks everyone.I decided to pass on this one due to the high mileage.

kawa · #6 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 03:14 AM

For what it's worth....220K is not high mileage for a PSD. That's not even half way to the recommended overhaul mileage.

Rog

Iallwork · #7 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 04:48 AM

manual trans: I've heard of somepeople pulling their fuse on manual trans. stops the OD. Doesn't work on auto. Beware! never did it myself. auto

Iallwork · #8 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 04:54 AM

Get a good torque converter! And a good tranny guy. you'll be OK with a shift kit on a slitely modified truck with a shift kit. It should shift hard.

drivembig · #9 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 05:32 AM

If the truck is clean, have it checked out by a good mechanic. It may cost you 100 bucks or so, but for that price if it checks out ok it would be worth it. It says "heavy duty torque converter shift kit". If it's had a new torque converter and a shift kit installed early in it's life, chances are that the tranny should be in better condition than one that is stock.