I have the 300/C6 combo in my van Bear, and with about 140K on the clock it doesn't use oil, gets about 15 mpg and most so far in back was 3000#'s...best $600 I ever spent.
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I have the 300/C6 combo in my van Bear, and with about 140K on the clock it doesn't use oil, gets about 15 mpg and most so far in back was 3000#'s...best $600 I ever spent.
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yeah, i just looked, seems they stopped making those in 96, that e350 will have a totally different setup. one thing seems to be an ongoing rule, the newer they are, the more difficult they are to repair. I had an earlier model e300 for about ten years that was a piece of cake to keep up, straight 6 300 w/auto. If you're not cut out for ever working on one and keeping it maintained, i just hope you can afford to keep a new one with plenty of insurance
if you start off with something decent to work with, and keep it up fairly well, it'll last a long time
Last edited by Bear; 04-13-2012 at 06:46 PM.
Funny thing about those E-350 I cut up all the presses that made the sheet iron and bumpers for that van. To the grave they went.
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I bought an Astro van out of a storage unit I was helping to clean out. We drug it out backwards and threw the jumpers on it and after 5 minutes it cranked over twice and fired and ran on 8 year old gas. Just waiting on a brake line to put it in operation. I like the idea of if I do an electronics pickup the stuff is out of the weather until I can get around to breaking down or testing. Tinted windows, people are not gonna know what I got inside, and with the seats out there's about 7 ft. of room to the back of the front seats. If something happens to it I'll double my money at the scrapyard.
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yeah thats another thing about the astro van around here the seats are already out and it has tool boxes. it was a commercial van before idk for what , probebly a contractor
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what motor the astro got? how much payload it carry ? what kinda shape they all in underneath? (leaky seals etc?) any of em smokin?(black sut in tailpipe)
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The Astro sits on a truck chassis, maybe S-10 frame???
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they're not very free with their payload specs on that thing, i did see it's probly got that 4.3 v-6, not a great mileage motor at all
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yeah thats exactly what it is bear
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it's a kick az lil motor but the mileage is awful
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Are you serious ? My dads got 93 3/4 ton Chevy pick up with the 4.3. Got more than enough power and stills gets 18 mpg, which I think is pretty goodOriginally Posted by Bear
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