EXCUSE me, read the title of this thread, it sez, "600 TO 800.

 

little bit of difference from the F600 - F800

 

I REPETE, READ THE TITLE OF THE THREAD.

 

True, OP asks about F600-800.

Note 331 not related to 401/477/534.......

IMO OP would be better off putting a hair dryer on his 7.3. Old trucks (his is old enough) can have lots of issues, and issues are downtime, and downtime is no income, only expense. So some old hulking C850 with a 401 or 534 might haul the freight, it may also need a pin and bush job, a steering box, brakes, and may have the Flintstone floor option...

 

There is not one word in my posts that sayes a 331 is the same as the large engines. I only pointed out some of the truck gas engines not on the list posted early in this thread.
And by the way, I do know the difference between a 330-331-332, as well as the larger engines. I grew up with these beasts back in the '60s. The big hulking 850 was state of the art equipment as were these "old" engines at the time.
Now I will stop this bs before someone else reads something into my posts that I DID NOT SAY.

 

That is going to mean a lot heavier of a truck and air brakes which will put him into CDL territory. If you try to stay under 26klbs you won't be able to put much at all in it for payload.

 

He is better off getting a larger truck than a 3/4 ton pickup. 2 cords of wood is not exactly light and will overload that pickup.

 

OP has an F450 with the 7.3 in it, see post 5:

"the f250 is my daily driver the truck with the 5 speed manual and 7.3l diesel is my worktruck the truck is an f450 superduty..."

 

If you want to go fast, loaded, uphill, forget about the older gas big trucks.

Trucks like my 63 F600 work fine in a rural enviroment, occasional use, where you can drive the backroads when heavy. It does a good job but is slow when loaded.

I just had a rear wheel cyl start leaking on my old f600, now I have to go through the brakes in the spring..... The old ones are fine for a hobby rig in a rural setting, where you don't have to get out in modern day traffic loaded.

The Price of fuel these days is also an issue on daily driven work rigs.

I had a 06 GMC Top kick 4500 with a Duramax and Allisson, 14 foot bed, 24k,GVW for a company rig. It was great, 60-65 mph up mountain passes at max load,.never got below 10.5 MPG running hard uphill. Great truck.

The dump truck, with pup trailer, I drive for work now, 06 Pete gets down to 35-40 at max load 105,500 uphill.....

Just saying, big trucks are big trucks and slow down on hills loaded.

Unless you can buy a later model, 4500-5500 sized truck, with a Duramax or Cummins,to get you into the good payload, no CDL niche you want to be in.... IMO you would be punching youself in the nuts to buy an older big truck if you want to go fast uphill loaded.
Greg

 

Air brakes don't matter as far as needing a CDL.

 

The full quote:

That is going to mean a lot heavier of a truck and air brakes which will put him into CDL territory. If you try to stay under 26klbs you won't be able to put much at all in it for payload.

Crete, I know you like to lecture about the airbrake thing (and you are correct), but wtf, you on a crusade or something? Hey, how about you list all the trucks on the market in the last 15 years that have air brakes, but a GVWR of 26000 and under?

Hey, what about a '90 7.3 F450 and put a turbo on it? Huh? Would that work???. Oh, right, let's not talk about that, it might work.

This thread isn't going anywhere that is going to haul firewood for the OP.

 

Hey, why don't you do a simple search on a site like truckpaper dot com if you want to see all the trucks you can get under CDL with air brakes?

Putting hair dryers on old trucks is a bad idea.

 

Quote my entire post or don't quote it at all. I never said that just the air brakes would put him into CDL territory.

 

So why mention it?

 

Mention what? The fact that the heavier trucks typically have air brakes?