hello to all those out there in IDI land. Wish I had an update for you on the headgasket change, but it has just been way to cold to get any work done.
I was just wanting to get some opinions on a deal i was offered. My boss has a '85 f-250 dually(conversion i guess), 6.9, c-6, 4x4, lariat. The body is in fair shape, no major dents. The interior isn't too bad. The 6.9 is a very strong runner. I've driven this truck several times as my work truck and have pulled over #8000lbs worth of aluminum concrete forms on a 18' gooseneck trailer.
It has approximately 180,000 miles. The c-6 slips pretty good, don't know what that's about yet. The d-50 ttb is out of whack. It was replaced about a year ago by 2 people that shouldn't have been any where near it, 
and now it eats a set of tires every 6,000 miles. It's got a big weatherguard tool box 
, goose ball, spring loaded rear bumper. It also has a few aftermarket gauges. It has an Isspro tachometer and an Isspro pyro, neither of which work(i did look to see if the thermocoupler was attached and it is not). I'm guessing the one thing that probably makes it all worth something is the gear vendor unit attached to the BW-1345. :Sly I've never used the GV due to the fact that when my boss bought the truck 3 years ago, he didn't know it had a GV 
until I was trying to clean up the spaghetti bowl wiring under the dash and found a little black box that said gear vendor. By this time, the wiring for the control box had been hacked because my boss couldn't figure out why he had 2 high beam floor swithces. 
He told me to make him an offer. 
Tell me what you think. If anything I'll probably get it to part it out. All I really want is to have a spare 6.9. Don't want another truck, much less one sittin around takin up space.
Sorry for the long post.
Rob
I was just wanting to get some opinions on a deal i was offered. My boss has a '85 f-250 dually(conversion i guess), 6.9, c-6, 4x4, lariat. The body is in fair shape, no major dents. The interior isn't too bad. The 6.9 is a very strong runner. I've driven this truck several times as my work truck and have pulled over #8000lbs worth of aluminum concrete forms on a 18' gooseneck trailer.
It has approximately 180,000 miles. The c-6 slips pretty good, don't know what that's about yet. The d-50 ttb is out of whack. It was replaced about a year ago by 2 people that shouldn't have been any where near it, and now it eats a set of tires every 6,000 miles. It's got a big weatherguard tool box , goose ball, spring loaded rear bumper. It also has a few aftermarket gauges. It has an Isspro tachometer and an Isspro pyro, neither of which work(i did look to see if the thermocoupler was attached and it is not). I'm guessing the one thing that probably makes it all worth something is the gear vendor unit attached to the BW-1345. :Sly I've never used the GV due to the fact that when my boss bought the truck 3 years ago, he didn't know it had a GV until I was trying to clean up the spaghetti bowl wiring under the dash and found a little black box that said gear vendor. By this time, the wiring for the control box had been hacked because my boss couldn't figure out why he had 2 high beam floor swithces. He told me to make him an offer. Tell me what you think. If anything I'll probably get it to part it out. All I really want is to have a spare 6.9. Don't want another truck, much less one sittin around takin up space.
Sorry for the long post.
Rob
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If you don't have a strong attachment to your truck (like some of us do 
. This is one of the things I have to plan how I will present it to Viviana, is getting harder and Harder to convince her of all this "necessary" expenses. 
