Best Truck engine you have ever driven or owned??? - Page 2

I don't care about cost. I paid 40k for my truck. But I will pull any trailer and get 14mpg all day. And it has all the power in the world. I wouldn't pull a snowmobile trailer with a gas truck after driving a diesel.

Originally Posted by happyisthealero

Chevy 4.3L V6 93 1500 pick up. its a power house! I can load 1800lbs in my 1500 and drive 40miles highway to drop my loads off! Sips gas when I'm out scrapping around town.
Chevy 4.3L V6 93 s10 same as above when I had it.
Wouldn't mind getting something newer.

I need to edit that total weight, I recently went to the scrapyard only to find out in the end I had close to 2400lbs I wonder how the tranny felt after that 40mile trek

you are going to see a trend

first one was a ford 351
318
318
225
360
318
12v cummins
24v cummins
350 chevy (towtruck)
12v cummins

got the last 4 still and the last one is recently aqcuired, i personally like the 12v better than the 24v but both 12vs are 5speeds and the 24v is an automatic, if i had a 24v as a manual i might change my mind, also the 225 i believe might be as indesructable as the cummins

Starting with my first truck, an

83 f150, 302 automatic; piece of worn out crap. Traded it to a guy who wanted it for a

67 f250 with a 390, 4-speed in it that ran decent with a tap in the top end. When I decided to re-do it I found: two bent pushrods, over half the lifters were frozen, two lobes were gone from the cam, some of the rocker arms had worn grooves into the rocker shafts, and the stock aluminum timing gear was worn down so sharp that I cut my finger taking it off. All that and only a tap... needless to say, it ran like a whipped dog after I got it all back together... sounded great too! Sold it before I left to be a missionary for two years, when I got back I bought an

87 f250, 460 automatic, I got snookered into this one, it was a POS. Somehow I found a guy who really wanted it, despite the long list of things I told him that were wrong with it, and he traded me an

88 Ranger, 2.9 5-speed that I still use for all my driving around. I also bought a

94 f250 with a 460, 5-speed that I use for my hauling/ occasional towing.