Your 99 has the 7.3 and doesn't have all the emission controls, so it doesn't need to be pushed anywhere near as hard as the new ones to keep it running well. The only problem is keeping it together on ultra low sulfur fuel, additives help a lot.

 

I moved up to my F250 after having my F150 for 2 years. All i have to say is I love my truck. Everytime I saw an F250 when I was driving my other truck I wanted one so bad!!!
Bottomline if you think you want it then go for it!

 

Yup!

 

If you are going to buy one buy it now because the prices are depressed because of the cost of fuel right now.

 

Now would be a great time to buy a diesel truck with diesel prices anywhere from $4.00 to $4.50 a gallon!

 

So say I were to buy a diesel. I would drive it daily probably 100 km a day if not more. For my work I haul probably 300-500lb's of stuff at a time maybe twice a week. Is that enough to keep soot levels down and not worry about it? Should I maybe "sandbag" the truck every once and awhile?

 

7.3's we really dont worry about idling and soot, but they are 'dinosuars'...

I dont ever pull anything, just the quad, rarely go mudding, only when my neighbor gets stuck(H1). I just daily drive it. I have a 6 posi chip with custom tunes from Beans. One is Daily driver hat really wakes the truck up yet gets great milege....

I will NEVER own a gas vehicle ever again

 

What if they phase out the diesels. Lots of rumors going around but personally I think they are all bs. I hope I can get a turbo diesel in a few years.

 

Should I be worried? My primary truck at the fire dept. is a 2006 F-550 with a 6.0L. 18,XXX miles and ~800 hours on it. ~500# under gross weight (quad cab, SCBA gear in 3 seats, 250 gallons of water, diesel pump in the bed, JAWS of life, etc in side compartments). That truck sits and sits and when we get in it, we run the **** out of it to the scene where it idles, idles, and idles. Casual drive back to the station, just to sit some more. Poor truck!

 

Nope, it's not yours!

Personally I wouldn't own a diesel unless I absolutely needed one. If you can afford the extra cost of it though, go ahead. Run it like Nascar and it'll be happy.

 

Good point, but if we don't have it, we're walking!

 

I remember there was the biggest argument back in thedieselstop.com haydays on a firedepartment buying a 6.0L or 6.8L rig. People got banned for gettin so angry with threats.

Either way, you gotta run the wee out of it, or do an EGR delete.

Adrianspeeder

 

Yupp, run em hard and hot to burn the soot out of them. I will put my foot into mine about 3 times a week and get the EGT's up there to blow everything out from all the in town driving.

 

You can go into most any auto website like Kelly Blue Book, Edmunds, etc and get the scoop on operational costs. Using an F150 XLT Suprecrew 5.0 versus an F250 Supercrew with the 6.7 diesel. Considerations are 15,000 miles per year over a 5 year period. Includes expected insurance, repairs, fuel, urea, etc in my state of Texas. Yours will be different but reasonably close.
F150= $54,720.00 over the 5 year period.
F150 Diesel= $67,636.00 over the 5 year period.

So is the diesel engine worth the extra $13,000.00 to you? Only you know the answer. For most folks that drive them down here, it's nothing more than a status symbol. All you have to do is walk thru any parking lot and look in the bed. Most are pristine and have never hauled anything. Few even know what a trailer is. Yeah, the diesel has loads of power and the newer ones are driver friendly but is it worth the cost? For most folks the answer is no. At one time the long life of a diesel was a major consideration especially for someone like me that puts several hundred miles a day on a truck. But the Triton gas engines will easily go the same mileage with far fewer and costly repairs. But they can't do the work of the Diesel....if you need it.

 

Myself I would really like to have one but can't see myself doing it. I just don't pull a trailer that much and normally its not that much weight. I don't even own my own house or land. Maybe if I did I would be wanting to actually get a diesel. An f150 just fits what I need better. Its a grocery getter and hauls some of my tools and pulls trailers occasionally(once a year or so). Other than that its a glorified DD really but it does everything I need it too and I enjoy driving it.