Been lurking around the site for a bit now and figured I'd post an intro and slip back into the shadows.
Picked up a bone stock, old man driven, decently clean 08 F250 with the 5.4/5R110 in Aug 2018. It didn't stay stock for long and has been getting more and more progressively in-depth upgrades.
Quickly came to hate the 8-9 mpg and a year almost to the date I picked up a core 06 5.9 to rebuild. 2 years after that and I'm only, hopefully, a few weeks away from pulling the truck off the road and dropping the Cummins in.
This will be my first diesel so it's been a bit of a learning curve. I'm an automotive machinist by trade so the engine rebuild was a piece of cake. Converting a gas truck to a diesel on top of swapping a Cummins in a Ford has been very interesting learning experience.
Picture of the truck the day I got it and how it sits now. Also pictures of the 5.9
Picked up a bone stock, old man driven, decently clean 08 F250 with the 5.4/5R110 in Aug 2018. It didn't stay stock for long and has been getting more and more progressively in-depth upgrades.
Quickly came to hate the 8-9 mpg and a year almost to the date I picked up a core 06 5.9 to rebuild. 2 years after that and I'm only, hopefully, a few weeks away from pulling the truck off the road and dropping the Cummins in.
This will be my first diesel so it's been a bit of a learning curve. I'm an automotive machinist by trade so the engine rebuild was a piece of cake. Converting a gas truck to a diesel on top of swapping a Cummins in a Ford has been very interesting learning experience.
Picture of the truck the day I got it and how it sits now. Also pictures of the 5.9
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