good luck with your chevy dually mine gets only 14 mpg and it sits alot unless needed

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commercial fisherman diesel in my blood in my boats trucks and Dear old Dad has had me drivin them since i got my first license in 1968
1986 300 SDL 427654
1999 Chevy Crew Cab Dually 225423
1986 300 SDL 287000 Dad's
1987 190 Turbo 158000 Mom's (my inheritance)

Lets pass the collection plate and buy it as a group and then just launch it off a cliff in a ball of flames

I'll pitch 5$

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1978 240D Auomatic
Custom Charcoal Gray, Navy MB tex, kenwood/Elemental/Boston/Aura sound,
Shaved antenna and emblems.

1990 Lincoln Town Car, Sleeper/Strip car in progress, 17.75@77mph.

The wiring job will probably cause the "ball of flames" part for us.

$5 here too, but I hate the thought of the engine going over the cliff with the truck. Can we pull it out first?

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1987 300TD 309, xxx 2.8.2014 10,000 mile OCI


Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

Once freed from its cage of wiring, we could sell the engine and maybe recoup a little bit of our $

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1978 240D Auomatic
Custom Charcoal Gray, Navy MB tex, kenwood/Elemental/Boston/Aura sound,
Shaved antenna and emblems.

1990 Lincoln Town Car, Sleeper/Strip car in progress, 17.75@77mph.

"free it from its cage of wiring" now that's funny, I don't care who you are. Seriously though shouldn't the ideal purpose of this forum, full as it is of an immense amount of knowledgeable and creative individuals, serve to support all of us who have 123 related issues and challenges. Even those who have strayed beyond the boundaries of stock applications and who may not have OCD when it comes to orderly wiring etc. etc. Its advisable to learn from each others mistakes, and that can't happen if some of us out here aren't making any. Off my soapbox.

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1985 300D Gretchen (Astral Silver) 220k
1983 240D 4-speed Evelyn (Orient Red) 203k


TANSTAAFL

Thanks bro...

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1983 300SD
1983 300GD

Go to Germany sometime and tell me if you EVER see a pickup truck.

(If you do it's 99.9% it's owned by an American GI)

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

The above is full of very noble thoughts, but our main problem is actually the thought of handing over an actual amount of $$$ for it.......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

With all seriousness. Let's say you live in america and you want a diesel mid sized truck. Please let me know all the options you come up with. You either have an option of buying a passenger car or a huge diesel truck (other than a tiny rabbit truck). For someone who wants a truck with lots of space to carry stuff and loves mercedes and wants to get on average 35 mpg and doesn't mind tinkering than what's the problem. Especially for veggie. This is the ticket.

-jon

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1983 300SD
1983 300GD

The Diesel powered 80's Ford Ranger, Chevrolet S10, Toyota Truck, Isuzu Pup, Datsun/Nissan 720, and Mitsubishi MightyMax come to mind.

being an American I'd just buy an F650.... opt for the Cat.. and put some bigger 10 lugs on it

LOL, if I'm ever tempted to buy a pick-up I'll just go see my doc for some viagra.

Hey now....

nothing wrong with a truck if you have work to do.

I really don't get the whole truckie subculture though with various tricking out with things that inhibit work like

extensive lowering
extensive raising with earth mover tires.
running a truck around off road and into creeks and such

and hey impugning my manhood is well ...(what did truckie say?)..... I have a bread loaf down there, man!

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.