Tristan
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I have always had a pickup in my life due to my dirt bike habit. Had a 78 Toyota, a 93 Ranger, and a Dodge W-150 4x4 with a 360 previously. Then we had my first daughter in 2002 and the need for a bit bigger cab and better MPG became valuable. I wanted a diesel and after looking at the price of the Cummins Powered Dodges I found the 87 brown and tan extended cab F-250 6.9, C6, NA, 4x4 in my area for $3,400. I checked it out and although I wasn’t a fan of the color combo the rest of the truck won me over. It had been used as a travel trailer hauler in Texas and only had about 67k miles on it. I joined the previous forum hangout (TDS) and started learning. Soon I found a used Banks turbo kit and put that on it along with a new set of injectors. It was my daily driver, motorcycle hauler and camper rig for many years. I stopped daily driving it about 2014 after about 120,000 miles that I personally put on it. It needed some serious attention, but my attention was focused elsewhere. My sister and brother in law had picked up a 1987 F-350 4x4 crew cab with the 6.9 in blue and silver. After a bit they came to the realization that the head gaskets were blown. They wanted nothing to do with it at that point and gave it to me. Well it was a garage queen for a long time while I slowly poked away at the repairs. It has now been on the road for about a year and is the main truck with the Banks kit pulled from the brown truck and running strong. It is in need of an injection pump and injectors and a ZF-5 swap, but isn’t my daily so I am saving up. The brown truck is sitting in my driveway waiting for me to pull the motor as a spare and the body will be scrapped when I am done unless I can find someone interested in making it whole again.
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I have always had a pickup in my life due to my dirt bike habit. Had a 78 Toyota, a 93 Ranger, and a Dodge W-150 4x4 with a 360 previously. Then we had my first daughter in 2002 and the need for a bit bigger cab and better MPG became valuable. I wanted a diesel and after looking at the price of the Cummins Powered Dodges I found the 87 brown and tan extended cab F-250 6.9, C6, NA, 4x4 in my area for $3,400. I checked it out and although I wasn’t a fan of the color combo the rest of the truck won me over. It had been used as a travel trailer hauler in Texas and only had about 67k miles on it. I joined the previous forum hangout (TDS) and started learning. Soon I found a used Banks turbo kit and put that on it along with a new set of injectors. It was my daily driver, motorcycle hauler and camper rig for many years. I stopped daily driving it about 2014 after about 120,000 miles that I personally put on it. It needed some serious attention, but my attention was focused elsewhere. My sister and brother in law had picked up a 1987 F-350 4x4 crew cab with the 6.9 in blue and silver. After a bit they came to the realization that the head gaskets were blown. They wanted nothing to do with it at that point and gave it to me. Well it was a garage queen for a long time while I slowly poked away at the repairs. It has now been on the road for about a year and is the main truck with the Banks kit pulled from the brown truck and running strong. It is in need of an injection pump and injectors and a ZF-5 swap, but isn’t my daily so I am saving up. The brown truck is sitting in my driveway waiting for me to pull the motor as a spare and the body will be scrapped when I am done unless I can find someone interested in making it whole again.
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