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• Jun 29, 2016

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Hi!
I'm Travis and I just picked up my first diesel, it's a 1987 4WD F-350 Crew Cab Long Bed, 6.9 IDI.

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I'm learning to work on it, luckily it already runs fairly well, just needs some suspension work (sounds like a wheel bearing wouldn't hurt much either). But eventually I'd like to do a full rebuild on it. I can't wait to learn from all the years of experience on here. Hopefully someday I can contribute as well!

 

• Jun 29, 2016

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rebuild it? looks like a hell of a nice truck.
if ya wanna work on it, make it Custom!

heres my 87 F350 4wd

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Thank you! Once I fix the suspension I'm gonna be using her for logging.
Yours looks vicious as hell! I like the third row of doors!
I just wanna do a rebuild under the hood eventually. Maybe put a gear vendor and maybe a turbo on it.

 

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Too Purdy to use for logging. You need a beater. Lol
That's a obs front end on it.

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Thank you! But I figure she looks that good at 29 years old, she's had enough rest, time for work!

What's obs mean? And how can you tell?

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• Jun 30, 2016

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OBS= Old Body Style.
referred to from the early style powerstroke.
1983-1986 = Bull nose
1987-1991 = Brick nose
1992-1997 = OBS
IDI diesels
1983-1987 = 6.9 IDI
1988-1992.5 = 7.3 IDI N/A
1992.5/1993-1994.5 = 7.3 IDI some were turbo
we know its an OBS because of the side markers. look at my side markers, completely different.

take a picture of your dash...

 

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94.5-97 = early PSD
99-2003 SD powerstroke

 

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^ what he said.

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if youre planning on working this truck.
the very first thing you should do is to get some real steps and throw those aluminum things in the scrap pile.

 

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Welcome to Oilburners. Nice looking truck!

 

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WElcome to the forum. Can you tell us what trans you have and what the mileage is on the truck. May not need a rebuild yyet but maybe just a fuel system upgrade. Adding a turbo really wakes up these engines.
Very nice looking rig for it to become a "working logging truck"...

 

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It's at _68K, the carfax has some differing information on the mileage, one says it should be 268K, then a later entry says it's only at 168K. It has a manual 4 Speed, I'm not sure which specific transmission that would be. And thanks again, but I traded my old working truck in for it. Used to have an '08 F150. I wanted a long bed and a manual transmission on an older diesel, I found this one by mistake actually, I was looking for an early-mid 90's 7.3, but I'm plenty happy with this find. I fully plan on keeping her running like the beast she is, for years to come.

 

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IDIoit said:

OBS= Old Body Style.
referred to from the early style powerstroke.
1983-1986 = Bull nose
1987-1991 = Brick nose
1992-1997 = OBS
IDI diesels
1983-1987 = 6.9 IDI
1988-1992.5 = 7.3 IDI N/A
1992.5/1993-1994.5 = 7.3 IDI some were turbo
we know its an OBS because of the side markers. look at my side markers, completely different.

take a picture of your dash...

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What would the dash tell ya?

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the dash tell us that its a brick nose with a OBS front end swap

 

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yeah,someone fixed the ugly. welcome to OBN!


in my best Crocodile Dundee voice: that's not a logging truck.........this is a logging truck.

for when your feeling reeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllyyyyyy bored (lol! no.there's some cool stuff in here.) the log truck show!

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enjoy the site.good folks around these parts.you come to the right place.

 

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