Craigslist Find: Neat

"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder) 02/25/2018 at 10:59 • Filed to: Ford, Craigslist, Npocp

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A regular cab dually with short wheelbase. Fix up the 6 liter Powerstroke and that’d be a damn fun truck. Only 143k miles too. Seller wants $13.5

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 11:09

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Want to hear something sad? I almost bought a nearly identical truck in 2009 with 30k miles on it. Single cab (shortest wheelbase possible), lightly lifted, bigger tires, 4x4, and 6.0L diesel. Price? $11k

LOREM IPSUM > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 11:26

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That is a nice looking truck.

I worked for a company which had a powerstroke equipped Ford of that era. They ended up putting around 15 grand into the engine over the course of a few “repairs” none of which actually completely fixed whatever was wrong with the engine. They then unloaded it at a huge loss.

Between that experience, and the videos showing the OEM fast and furious esque flames shooting out of the exhaust because quality is job 1, I figure maybe ford diesels aren’t for me.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 11:58

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I’m trying to figure out what the use case would be for a truck configuration like this. The only thing I can think of is it might work as a dedicated truck for towing 5th wheel trailers (though I do have a vague memory of a youtube video with an RC car on a treadmill where shortening the wheelbase of the tow vehicle made it get pushed all over the place by the trailer so I might be wrong on that idea). The tiny bed means you can’t stick a massive amount of stuff in the bed so you can’t use it’s capability that way.

I think the actual problem here is that I am trying to apply logic to diesel pickup truck buyers.

Milky > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 13:33

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Just to be that guy, I don’t think anyone makes regular cab, short bed, duallys.

This is what a custom one looks like.

whoarder is tellurium > Milky 02/25/2018 at 14:56

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Are you sure? Im talking factory “short wheel base”, not chopped.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 02/25/2018 at 16:09

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The saddest part of that is if you had bought it you could probably sell it today for what you paid

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 02/25/2018 at 16:16

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Seriously. Crazy inflation.

Milky > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 16:21

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Miss understood. In my mind nothing with a long bed is short, but I get what you mean now.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > LOREM IPSUM 02/25/2018 at 16:49

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well they had some issues but are easily fixed. EGR delete and upgraded oil cooler will fix most issues. Now if you want to run 200hp tunes then you need to pull heads and replaced injectors

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > whoarder is tellurium 02/25/2018 at 16:49

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if it was a manual then do it