460 zf5 4x4 availability
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460 zf5 4x4 availability
forst tine posting over here, I normally reside in the bullnose forum. I’m looking to swap out the t-19 4speed trans to a zf5 unit for mpg’s. Problem is, I apparently live in a 5 speed black hole, Craigslist, facebooks marketplace, word of mouth, every junkyard within a couple hundred mile radius and I can’t find a single one. I simply refuse to pay $1700 plus $800 core, and who knows how much freight shipping to buy a remanned unit. Where are all these things hiding at? Are they rare? Am I not looking hard enough? I feel like the longer I look (2+ years) the more I’ll be let down when it doesn’t give me the fuel mileage I think it should...Thanks y’all!
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Rubbing salt in the wounds, hahaha! I’ve seen the f-superduties in 2wd, but yet to see the 4wd one your speaking of, got a picture? I’m assuming it’s a different tailhousing than one off a regular 2wd truck. Besides, all these truck local in my area are 7.3’s.
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From: Mi'kma'ki
If your having a hard time finding one locally,after 2 years you kinda have to call it and have one shipped lol.
Use car-part.com and call around some salvage yards to see who's willing to ship.
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From: Laramie, WY
Might be better off buying a parts truck?
Funny you can't find a bbf zf5, I feel like that's all I see, while I watch for the elusive sbf zf5..
Funny you can't find a bbf zf5, I feel like that's all I see, while I watch for the elusive sbf zf5..
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I’ll trade ya! All I can find is sbf and even more 7.3 diesels. True on the fact that I can’t find one when I need one. Then again I’ll try to be patient. I haven’t even “seen” a parts truck!
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I bought a 97 250 4wd with a 460/5spd in Peublo CO this year. Trans tail housing before the transfer case busted out of it. Paid 800 bucks for it, 71,000 miles Truck's like new. I was going to haul it back to MN with my goose trailer, but my son, living in Denver and a tech for Mercedes picked the truck up, went to a U-pick in Denver, had 3 to choose from at that time, and picked a good one up for $75. We put that in and he drove it back to MN later that summer. The 5 spd that was in it is apart on my bench and I have a new casting from ZF (kind of a bugger to find). I've 2 rust free 97 F250s on the farm along with my trusty rusty 89. That has an excellent running 460 with 5 spd 4wd. BW1356 transfer. That truck I will be parting as the cab is toast. I'm in west central MN if interested. I have no idea how to leave an email address so it's not open to the world as other forums have, to allow communication between readers.
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I am back and forth on swapping out the sloppy shifting and leaking M5OD for a ZF. I have never seen one around my usual junkyards so I would have to make a day trip of it to go get one several hours away. I feel your pain.
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Here in the north east they SELL for 3-500. I see them advertised for 800+ but they do not sell, nor should they. Junk yards don't sell them for that much with a warranty.
As for shipping, it should not cost more than 150 to ship one on a pallet
And like stated earlier, the F-superduty(10 lug trucks )use a 4wd version, they jut bolt a drum parking brake in instead of the transferase
As for shipping, it should not cost more than 150 to ship one on a pallet
And like stated earlier, the F-superduty(10 lug trucks )use a 4wd version, they jut bolt a drum parking brake in instead of the transferase
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From: Gilbert, PA
Make sure the mount is good and also tight. Engine mounts also have to be good as ell or will rely on the trans mount to support the twisting
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Good info, I suspected there was a twisting motion that caused it. A neighbor had one flip the transfer case and shatter it. My trans mount is new but engine mounts are still original. I didn’t know if the problem was made worse by any other issues.
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Sell
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