anyone know this guy?
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KA-T_240;265135 wrote:
IMO 16.5k is way to high for that truck. The low miles may not be a good thing. Unless he only used the truck to drive back and forth between here and AZ or something like that.i think its a pretty damn gooddeal, the only reason that i wouldnt buy it is because its a auto and i am in phoenix, so i wouldnt be able to actually drive it until i come home. but if i do buy it im going to try and get him to throw in the smarty and the quadzillia, or maybe just the smarty and then buy a tst.
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If your wanting to play with it, I would buy an auto. I also doubt a bank will give you a loan for that much for that vehicle. Being that you are in AZ, why not look for one down there that has never seen winter?
I am just thinking with that low of miles, the owner could have been using it as start, drive 3 miles to work, and then turn off thing. If so, that kind of use dramatically shortens the lifespan of a diesel.
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yes yes very true,i guess i never really thought about the miles deal from that prospective. i wouldnt be taking a loan out on it, and i like the manual for durability reasons, all i really need to do is but in a twin disc clutch and a billet input shaft and its pretty much bullet proof. i would love to find that deal down here, but there are alot of 2wds down here, and i have to have a 4wd. it would be nice to find one close to home in sd, that way i could just go and have my dad go and look at it, check for excess amounts of rust and all that bs, and put it in the shop at our farm until i come home, which might be memorial day weekend.
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KA-T_240;265135 wrote:
IMO 16.5k is way to high for that PICKUP.fixed
agree should be able to find one for around 10-12k
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unless you are pulling 24/7 wtf would you want a manual??
manuals suck for any fun in a cummins period......by the time you are into good boost you need to shift, and even worse with a larger than stock turbo
unless you only like 5th/6th gear rolls....
good converter + good auto >>> manual............ in a cummins
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zbrown;265387 wrote:
unless you are pulling 24/7 wtf would you want a manual??manuals suck for any fun in a cummins period......by the time you are into good boost you need to shift, and even worse with a larger than stock turbo
unless you only like 5th/6th gear rolls....
good converter + good auto >>> manual............ in a cummins
What he said!!!!!
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i donno, my buddie down here has a 01 with a manual and its a blast driving it, he has a monster pump, quadzillia with the pulse, intake, 4in straight piped, and a ceramic clutch (switching to twin disc). hes running 14.3 in the 1/4.
i am thinking about putting a sun coast kit in an auto if i do go that route at school in my tranny class. but i sort of want to get into sled pulling down the road a little bit so the manual will be better for that.
and if you think you can find a nicer one for cheaper, then show me, most cummins of that year have 200k miles on them, yeah the motor will last forever, but the rest of the truck wont, i dont want to have to replace the suspension right away, i dont want to have to replace or build the tranny right away, even though it will happen sooner or later.
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beachbum_jon;265481 wrote:
i donno, my buddie down here has a 01 with a manual and its a blast driving it, he has a monster pump, quadzillia with the pulse, intake, 4in straight piped, and a ceramic clutch (switching to twin disc). hes running 14.3 in the 1/4.so it would be in the easy 13's on a auto your saying?? I have ridden in decently fueled stick and auto trucks...........no comparison
holding full boost and fuel through the shifts and being able to build however much boost from a stop is huge
granted stock converters suck huge donkey dick because they are so loose that the truck doesn't go anywhere and the lockup clutch wont hold much abuse
You would not even think it is the same truck just going from a stock converter to a good aftermarket, tight, multi-disk converter......and being able to do WOT shifts all the while the converter can hold locked, and the truck actually goes somewhere during just unlocked fluid coupling too
there are some really good aftermarket converter/tranny stuff out there for the dodge/cummins stuff........like my converter is a Goerend, billet 3 disk...... guaranteed to hold 2000ft/lbs locked and an unlimited lifetime warranty ( i could break an input shaft and shred the convereter and it would be repaired for shipping costs only)..........
edit, and should add not much more $$ than a really good clutch
sorry for the rant, i just think you should get an auto
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thanks for the info, yeah i am really considering an auto, and actually i did find a truck in vegas that i might be going to pick up this weekend. its got about the same miles, short box, some supporting mods like a fass and gauges and some small stuff for about the same money. this truck is auto so i if i get it i will put in a lockout switch in it until i get parts from suncoast so i can build it in auto trannys class.
brown-what tranny you got, stock with goerend converter? i was thinking about doing a goerend tranny kit but they are sure expensive.
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beachbum_jon;265522 wrote:
some supporting mods like a fass a.good, should be the first mod on every 24 valve
IMO doesn't matter who you go with........ ATS, BD, Suncoast, and Goerend all have good stuff.... I just went with Goerend because from what i have read he stands behind his stuff 100% and his warrantys are usually better...... I can vouche he is awesome for customer service, which is hard to come by these days if you ask me
Yeah and I dont know the story on my tranny and I dont care if it never shits, haha
I bought the truck with 135k.... now has 206k............ beat the piss out of it with decent fuel and it holds like a champ still. ( i even dumped ALL the fluid out hauling ass to a fire when I blew a cooler line and it is still 100% somehow)...... So i am guessing it is not the original tranny becasue you know as well as me about these stock trannys, but maybe it is...... But yeah i have expected it to die for along time and never does, will stick with goerend when it is time though
A good auto setup WILL be more $$ than a strong enough g56 manual, but i feel well worth it considering the ton of good hard parts for these auto trannys anymore, and the big benifits it gives you on the cummins
good luck
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finally admitting that it has a suncoast?????
zbrown;265565 wrote:
Yeah and I dont know the story on my tranny and I dont care if it never shits, hahaI bought the truck with 135k.... now has 206k............ beat the piss out of it with decent fuel and it holds like a champ still. ( i even dumped ALL the fluid out hauling ass to a fire when I blew a cooler line and it is still 100% somehow)...... So i am guessing it is not the original tranny becasue you know as well as me about these stock trannys, but maybe it is...... But yeah i have expected it to die for along time and never does, will stick with goerend when it is time though
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