Quote Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper View Post
No matter what you get if you get a 7.3 get a 5 speed not an automatic. Unless you have $4g's to buy a ATS tranny with 500k warranty to put in it. The 7.3 eats them up if you do any towing. Dont know about the 6.4 since I have a 7.3 If your looking for an older 7.3 also make sure the injectors are good or have been redone. Thats another $4g's if you have to do all 8. Diesel trucks are not cheap to repair no matter what brand you buy but a gasser will never tow 7 tons of scrap to the yard at highway speeds At least not in one trip.
Any truck hauling heavy loads should have a manual trans IMO. I like telling the truck what gear to be in, not it telling me. I wanns be in full control goin down the highway. My 99 dodge diesel auto trans was THEE worst. Would always shift whenever it felt it wanted to. Never again. Lol