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DMax Guy just bought 97 7.3!

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Old 09-25-2010, 06:43 PM
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Default DMax Guy just bought 97 7.3!

I bought a 97 powerstroke, 5 speed manual in need of a clutch, with 101k on it for $300 bucks it had sat for 6-7 years and got it fired up. Gonna tow it a long ways home in a week. I know i need to change all the fluids and filters and all kinds of stuff, but being a DMax guy just lookin to see what else i should look at on it. Figured u powerstroke dudes could lend a hand. Always loved the old body style strokes!
 
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Old 09-25-2010, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by R.Cassidy
I bought a 97 powerstroke, 5 speed manual in need of a clutch, with 101k on it for $300 bucks it had sat for 6-7 years and got it fired up. Gonna tow it a long ways home in a week. I know i need to change all the fluids and filters and all kinds of stuff, but being a DMax guy just lookin to see what else i should look at on it. Figured u powerstroke dudes could lend a hand. Always loved the old body style strokes!
You got one H E L L of a deal, those old POWERSTROKES don't have alot of HP & TQ compare to your D-MAX, but they are hard to kill
 
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Old 09-26-2010, 10:19 AM
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Yeah thats what i have heard. They sure look and sound bad *** tho! even if its a p o s for 300 bucks, cant go wrong. I bought if for my dad so mine doesnt get used as much. Im gonna intake and exhaust it and just keep her running if it pans out.

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Here she is!
 

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Guess i shoulda put this on the ford section of this forum. Anybody know anything about these 7.3's? Any issues they have that i need to look at or anything like that?
 
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I'm callin the fuzz, you stole that truck
 
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Originally Posted by R.Cassidy
Yeah thats what i have heard. They sure look and sound bad *** tho! even if its a p o s for 300 bucks, cant go wrong. I bought if for my dad so mine doesnt get used as much. Im gonna intake and exhaust it and just keep her running if it pans out.

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Here she is!
Just the tires & toolbox is worth the $300
 
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Old 09-26-2010, 06:05 PM
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i know. The rancher owns the place i was guiding antalope hunters on in douglas wyoming, and i saw it just parked out with other "junk" trucks and asked if it ran. We worked on it for a bit and fired her up. So i told him i would buy it if it was cheap. Gonna pull it home the 3rd after another hunt up there.
 
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Originally Posted by R.Cassidy
i know. The rancher owns the place i was guiding antalope hunters on in douglas wyoming, and i saw it just parked out with other "junk" trucks and asked if it ran. We worked on it for a bit and fired her up. So i told him i would buy it if it was cheap. Gonna pull it home the 3rd after another hunt up there.
Hell just the windshield worth more
 
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good GOD. when i read the first post I fully expected the body to be beat to heck, run down to primer and bare metal.... you see what im gettin at.

be glad I wasnt there with $300 before you
 

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