Crew long bed with 6.2?
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Crew long bed with 6.2?
Was at the dealer today looking for a new truck Maybe? I want a crew cab long bed with 6.2 430 gears straight up manual XL work truck they were trying to explain the GVW and couldn't give me an answer what will the truck be $11,000 or $12,000? I'm ordering it with the bigger 18in Wheels so I have the max payload and GVW also how do you think the 6.2 with 430 is going to push this truck everyone I talk too keeps telling me to buy a diesel...
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How are you using the truck and what do you want? That's how to tell if you should get the diesel or not. IMO most folks will do fine with a gas, but if you need a diesel you need one, and if you want a diesel, sure why not.
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Without knowing what you're doing with it, it's tough to help. That said, I'm getting a low end XLT in CCLB 4x4 6.2, 4.30 and i have no doubts it will be just fine. I don't plan on towing anything over 10K ever.
I was going to do an XL but by the time I added all of the options and then compared it to a XLT, I was only a couple hundred dollars difference and I could get the color I wanted. Food for thought.
If you want the diesel, get it. I've owned a diesel for 20 years and I'm done. I have zero need or use for it and it's $9K I don't need to spend. Resale value means nothing to me when I've already spent the difference in maintenance and repairs during ownership.
I was going to do an XL but by the time I added all of the options and then compared it to a XLT, I was only a couple hundred dollars difference and I could get the color I wanted. Food for thought.
If you want the diesel, get it. I've owned a diesel for 20 years and I'm done. I have zero need or use for it and it's $9K I don't need to spend. Resale value means nothing to me when I've already spent the difference in maintenance and repairs during ownership.
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Daily driver, towing a 16' 8k utility trailer with top soil mulch, construction waste, small backhoe, small track hoe, maybe buying a 10k dump trailer soon, I am buying a 8.5' x 16' enclosed (maybe 10k gvw) that will be my tool/parts trailer (I started my own heating/ac/plumbing/remodeling company a fee months ago) towing my 16' duck boat, would like to buy a 20' cemter consol within the next year and townit back ans forth to the beach on the weekends about an hour away here in new jersey. In approximately six years in moving out west ( Montana, Wyoming, North Texas, similar state) will most defiently be adding 35" tires, wil have a front winch bumper and warn 15 or 16k winch
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I have a 2004 5.4 f350 ext cab short bed with 4.30 gears and 285/75r16 tires that I tow the above mentioned items. Yes she's been problem free from showroom to current 156k but going heavy towing she's slower....she does everything but POWER is what I miss at times. Never owned a diesel but my dad had a 2000 7.3 and I've driven it enough to know I loved the torque and the feeling of going whenever I tipped into the throttle. BUT these new diesels with all this emissions and over care is not me. Plus if something happens I won't be able to fix it myself and then the cost to fix said issue.
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Will say the older I get the more I mature I don't need a 6second f350 diesel. I just want a truck that has torque and can move itself without me having to push the accelerator through the floor. And I don't want a truck that's gonna labor from me towing a trailer, or one that can't pass a 4cylinder car on the highway
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My King Ranch in that configuration CCLB 6.2 w/ 4.30 Gears arrived today. After lots of research, everything you told me, I don't think that config will be a problem...
One thing to keep in mind is a 2000 7.3 is no where near the specs of a 6.7 today:
235 @ 2,700
500 @ 1,600
It actually compares more closely to the 6.2 than the 6.7, so if you are happy with that, I would save the $8000+ entry fee and go with the gas motor...
One thing to keep in mind is a 2000 7.3 is no where near the specs of a 6.7 today:
235 @ 2,700
500 @ 1,600
It actually compares more closely to the 6.2 than the 6.7, so if you are happy with that, I would save the $8000+ entry fee and go with the gas motor...
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Yeah I don't see where the gasser won't be fine for your use. I completely agree with everything you've said about modern diesels and why I've said no thanks. My 7.3 is over 300hp and 600lb-ft with mods but like you, I'm getting older and my ego just doesn't care anymore about going fast, whining turbos, and rolling coal. Out here 55-65 is about all you go other than the interstates and I don't drive those much. I'm guessing I'll get as good of MPG's or better than my 7.3.
And honestly, I love the V8 rumble. I love it when I fire up the GM 6.0L in my aluminum jetboat and head for the fishin hole. Turning RPM's to make power is a non-issue to me. I guess my ego like that tho....
And honestly, I love the V8 rumble. I love it when I fire up the GM 6.0L in my aluminum jetboat and head for the fishin hole. Turning RPM's to make power is a non-issue to me. I guess my ego like that tho....
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