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what turbo
i have been looking at tubos for my truck it is a 86 f-250 4x4 4 speed witn 4.10 gears and 285/75r16 tires. i was hauling gravel the other day and decicided that i need a little more power. i hit the scales and was surprised at what i weighed i normally don't tow this much weight. it was 23,500 it was slow but still ran at 50mph. after that it was scary. so i looked at hypermax, banks, ats, are there other options and wich would be the most pleasing. thanks ahead of time
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ATS is my preffered turbo.
How many miles?
I assume you had the gravel on a trailer?
I have crossed the scales at just under 18,000 with just the truck, I have a load of mods to the brakes to get it stopped.
23,500 GCVW is not that bad if you have good trailer brakes.
I thought I was the only one that pushed my truck that hard.
There may be two of us.
How many miles?
I assume you had the gravel on a trailer?
I have crossed the scales at just under 18,000 with just the truck, I have a load of mods to the brakes to get it stopped.
23,500 GCVW is not that bad if you have good trailer brakes.
I thought I was the only one that pushed my truck that hard.
There may be two of us.
Last edited by Dave Sponaugle; Mar 18, 2007 at 09:47 PM.
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I don't do it too often, but, I do run into the 20K GCWR range with mine now and then(10,000 working weight bobcat, on a 4500 lb tag.) Good brakes on both units are an absolute must, the gears will only do so much with loads in that range.
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yes i had a dump bed trailer with hyd. brakes on the trailer. i push anything i own to the limits. the truck has 96,000 miles on it. i bought it from the original owner and haven't had to do much work to it besides regular maintenance. i was looking at ats website but they didn't have any prices on there.
a couple of people told me i was crazy and that i should just paid somebody to come and dump the gravel but that gets expensive.
a couple of people told me i was crazy and that i should just paid somebody to come and dump the gravel but that gets expensive.
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9200 pounds on the bed, 17,600 gross
300,000 plus miles and has done this all it's life.
Just built a 6.9 turbo for it last summer.
4500 dollar engine job in an 86 truck
The ATS turbo is about 2000 dollars, you also need to get the 3" downpipe which is about 80 dollars more.
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Go ats. dave can probly back me on this one. the ats will spank a banks any day of the week.atleast thats been my experience.banks really don't inpress me much every wear you go in the diesel world you see banks in big bold letters.I have always used ats.ats will stand behind every thing they build.I know lots of guys with banks stuff and all they do is biatch and moan couse something broke and the woranty wont cover it.every body I hook up with ats are all very happy.a good freind of my dads is a rep for ats.
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