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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 12:43 AM
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For a while I've been debating jumping ship and getting rid of the 6.0l for a 7.3l. I've always wanted a crew cab so I went and picked this up.

Here it is on the way home on top of the Siskiyou Summit




And here it is after about 4 hours of washing today




208k miles with an E40D rebuilt 40k ago. I'm going to start getting the stuff together for a zf5 swap as soon as I can. Glad I could join the OBS 7.3l club. (I had more pictures but photobucket isnt cooperating). What do you all think?
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 12:47 AM
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Great looking truck.how stock is it?you can have the zf...ill keep my auto haha

Welcome though! Sit on down and stay a while.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 02:09 AM
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Nice find. That is a good looking truck. And welcome to the obs side. What kind of mods do you have in mind for it?
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 02:56 AM
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Welcome to the dark side! Youve came to the BEST forum on the web for our rigs. Great bunch of guys here.

Any upgrades on the truck?
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 05:27 AM
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Nice looking truck!
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 07:38 AM
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Very nice! Welcome to the OBS (Older But Sexy) club. Truck looks like the second coming of Chase's old truck "Whitey"...
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 07:43 AM
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Very nice! Welcome to the OBS (Older But Sexy) club. Truck looks like the second coming of Chase's old truck "Whitey"...
That's what I was thinking. Great looking truck OP!!
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 08:41 AM
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Welcome! and nice truck! I love the OBS crew cabs. Well, I love all OBS trucks, but especially crew cabs! The ZF swap isn't bad at all to do. The best way, if possible, is to have a whole donor truck, but I know that's not always possible. Everyone here will help you with anything you need to know though!
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 09:05 AM
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One more welcome for you to this forum. . Congrats, your truck looks awesome.

Enjoy it, you wont regret the change for the 6.0l

 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 10:35 AM
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Im confident I can do the zf swap. None of it looks hard, just a lot to it. Right now she sits mostly stock. I think it's stock height with 285's on it. The exhaust tip is a magnaflow, but the downpipe is stock and the diameter is 3.5" so I think they may have just added the tip. The PO had a trans temp gauge installed when the transmission was rebuilt.

For right now I'm going to keep it simple. Start with 6637, exhaust, and gauges. I'm leery about a chip until I get the stuff together for the zf swap. Someday in the not to distant future I'd like stage 1's
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 10:45 AM
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Damn whitey lives. Lol
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 10:46 AM
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Very nice! Welcome to the OBS (Older But Sexy) club. Truck looks like the second coming of Chase's old truck "Whitey"...
Haha I didnt read all of your post. Lol
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 02:26 PM
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Im confident I can do the zf swap.
If I can do it, then you can do it.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 04:47 PM
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So... 2 questions...

1.) you ever make it further south? (bay area?)

2.) can I have your old automatic?

Richard

EDT: also... what year is it?
 
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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 10:10 PM
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Nice rig! I go through Yreka a few times a year.
 
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