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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 06:37 PM
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Bought another truck today

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It's an 06 with the 5.9 160k miles.

This was just last week on the way home from work. Keep in mind I work 12 hours a day and all of it is outside.

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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 08:10 PM
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Looks clean Gotts.

I sort of like that one sitting behind it a little, -with the canary yellow paint roller stripe around it. Swore I seen hearts popping all around it at first glance. Shook it off.

Anyway how does it run and why Dodge ?
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 08:33 PM
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^ Haha

Probably the whole Cummins thing. If I needed a diesel, it would be a toss up between a powerstroke and Cummins. As much as I like ford trucks, that cummins is a good engine.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 08:40 PM
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I pretty well stole the truck price wise was #1. I also like that when I open the hood you can actually see and touch things with out taking everything apart lol. My budget was $15k I wanted a 99-03 7.3 then this dodge popped up. Bought it off the original owner, all maintenance records since new. Never chipped. Pyro, trans temp, boost, and fuel pressure gauges already. More or less I bought what I felt would be the best truck in my price range.

When I bought my f150 I was looking for a 97-98 chev lol.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by avfrog
^ Haha

Probably the whole Cummins thing. If I needed a diesel, it would be a toss up between a powerstroke and Cummins. As much as I like ford trucks, that cummins is a good engine.
Same here, exactly.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 09:06 PM
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I pretty well stole the truck price wise was #1. I also like that when I open the hood you can actually see and touch things with out taking everything apart lol. My budget was $15k I wanted a 99-03 7.3 then this dodge popped up. Bought it off the original owner, all maintenance records since new. Never chipped. Pyro, trans temp, boost, and fuel pressure gauges already. More or less I bought what I felt would be the best truck in my price range.

When I bought my f150 I was looking for a 97-98 chev lol.
Very nice. Drove the Dodge 1 ton dually at work for a period of time. Wouldn't mind having one of my own. But yea, toss up between that and the 7.3. I put 116,000 on a 99 7.3 before totaling it on the turn pike. Loved that truck as well.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 09:14 PM
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Great truck and motor... I've very impressed with my Dad's... he has a '04.5, modded with various '11+ parts. She's still a baby under 100k. He bought it used and in the past 3 years has put less than 12-15k on her. Garage Queen year round

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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 10:09 PM
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If I ever got me a Dodge, it would have to be a nice clean one from the '91 - '93 era (the last version of the old square-bodied models) in a standard cab configuration with the Cummins! I wanted one of those so bad when they were still being produced, but was still in college and broke so it was nothing but a pipe-dream for me at the time......

But if I could find one today, that'd be one sweet old truck to cruise around in.......
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ddellwo
If I ever got me a Dodge, it would have to be a nice clean one from the '91 - '93 era (the last version of the old square-bodied models) in a standard cab configuration with the Cummins! I wanted one of those so bad when they were still being produced, but was still in college and broke so it was nothing but a pipe-dream for me at the time......

But if I could find one today, that'd be one sweet old truck to cruise around in.......
my brother in laws grandpa has one. Under 55,000 original miles too. Wont sell it lol
 
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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Gotts2BMe
my brother in laws grandpa has one. Under 55,000 original miles too. Wont sell it lol

Well, he can't live forever.....
 
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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 10:19 PM
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Watch out for the flyin' ball joints.

We gotta new guy in at work from Hawaii, and when I picked him up at the airport yesterday, he asked to crank the heat up in the stroker. It was only 35 out. He'll have fun at our -30 deployments in Russialand.

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Old Feb 7, 2013 | 09:46 AM
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buddy sent me this video, pretty well sums it up lol....

 
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Old Feb 7, 2013 | 10:25 PM
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Looks to be a clean truck, Gotts! I agree that a Cummins would be the only other truck I would own.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Gotts2BMe
buddy sent me this video, pretty well sums it up lol....
Wow, that describes about %75 of Dodge owners when they overhear me mention a Spartan tuned 6.4L.

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