Let’s see some minty old diesel burners…

Here’s my current one, 1992 W250 6BT 5 speed. Just finished up a Move heritage bumper for it, burned it together with 7018, do not recommend stick welding a bumper if you’re in a time crunch lol






Ben

Classy Ben!


Give me a minute to walk over to my pride and joy...

my '99

Not a show truck like Don's and no brands on this one, she's a slick....lol

The beautiful 2003.

Fancy!

Looks like Huggy Bear would be sellin’ produce out the back!

I’ve been wanting and older square body Chevy, single cab, short bed dually. It’d just be a play toy. Haul a boat, camper and what not.

Nice trucks fellas.

I love older cars and trucks: no monthly payments, cheaper tags, love messing over the dealerships. In most instances they ride as good or better than a new one. Neighbor down the road had a year old Ford F150. Something went wrong with the transmission. It took over 6 months to get the part in to fix. He bought a Toyota and is in the process of selling the Ford.

Don and Sam, that’s one of my favorite Ford body styles. I had a 95 7.3 crew cab I sold to buy the shipping crate, loved that truck but with as much road burning as I’ve been doing the 4.10’s it had absolutely sucked. Really liked fuel..

Cool, never had a Diesel pickup.

Dude....he said "old".

Like this one.

93 F250 Turbo.

WHAT??? No pix of the venerable 5.7L GM diesel in pickups and a couple sedans???

GM nearly killed the entire diesel market with that pos...

What do you think of that Bumper Ben?

Uncle had one of those in a full-size GM station wagon. I don't recall if it was a Chevy, Olds, or Buick though.

Got into diesels with a ‘90 Dodge/Cummins, sold that for a ‘93 7.3 n/a, now pulling w an ‘11 Ford 6.7.

that dodge and that bumper are awesome!!

When it comes to diesels, what's considered old? With the cost of these trucks, if it's a runner, most folks hang onto them

1. Yep on the runners!

2. Old is relative, but pre- and post-common-rail injection is a good place. Heck, pre-and post-DEF is pretty major too.

Had a couple of those for work trucks. A 92 and a 96. That’s my absolute favorite Ford body style. They did a great job on the interior layout in those years too. Sold the 92 to buy my first house and the 96 finally blew the transmission in 2001 after 200k miles so it got traded in for a 01 GMC.

My current oil burner is an 06 Dodge. Probably not too old but it’s paid for. With the DEF, Emissions and cost; I probably won’t buy another diesel.

Had a 80's something oldsmobile with one of those in it. You'd about burn the glow plugs up getting it started if it was cold at all, smoked like a chimney until it warmed up some, and you needed a 3/4 mile run to pass someone going 50 on a 2 lane highway, but it got me to work for a couple years! Lol.

Top shelf Jim! Man oh man the miles I’ve spent in those cabs….

Yea, tha bumper looks like a serious threat to anything in front of it, awesome.

Osky

No such animal unless you build it yourself. I’ve seen a few that people have done. My kid wants to do one with an LS engine.

1966 Oliver with a Perkins 358 six banger. I put it to sleep the end of October and wake it up around the end of April. I keep a battery tender on it just in case we need it before that.

So ours is semi old. Rail system but no DEF.

Same here. It's 2012, I didn't consider it old, but I was able to get permanent plates.

5 minutes ago.

Ain't no hippie gonna be in the way with a bumper like that!

Great picture! A happy young man living the life. 👍👍

Did they put the Detroit Diesel in any pickups?
I've seen them in farm tractors.

Gold cuzzin'!


We had a '92 F250 with a 460 and a regular flatbed. That was when we just started feeding round bales, finding a hill was the easiest way to unroll them. Didn't work very well on the river bottom....lol

That pickup was pretty much toast about 20 years ago and my dad traded it off on our first diesel.

When I drive my car, I'm always getting cut off by dumasses. I drive this thing and folks stay out of my way.

OSHA would have a picnic with Wannabebwana's post.

I consider "old" being anything that does not have a computer on board.

I agree that's old but dang, no computer?

Wasn’t aware. Thought they had 2 different bed lengths.

LS would be fun.
So would a HT502 GM crate motor.

Some of them boys get that head diaper caught in machinery, sometimes it's a big mess.......

Good stuff.

‘95 with the 6.5L

The new diesel trucks are too complicated and finicky compared to the older ones. I'd much rather have one of the older Dodges with the original Cummins they came out with.

That’s a good looking Ferd Jim. I really like the move, I had one on my 7.3 also. They’re a fun easy welding project. Hold up good to deer…grin

I wish I’d have kept the CM bed when I sold it





Ben

Boy that’s a beauty I love Olivers I’ll post a pic of my dad’s tomorrow. I’ve thought a Perkins swapped into a pickup would be really cool for a while now..

Cool thread, Ben.

Hey 7.3, some guys are calling you old at 36, any comment?.......bwaaaaa, bwaaaaaa I still feel like the day I came off the lot.
With 500,000 km, (320,000miles) you are still in great shape, but you drink alot....bwaaaaha wahwah.

I like my 2003 3500 club cab w Cummins. Wife hates it. Only 135K on it- lots of life yet. Body is in good shape too, despite the road salt up here.

She thinks spending $80K for a new or $60K for a 2 year old (and less reliable, IMO) truck (her preference is Ford) is way better than a few thou a year in repairs. I probably don't have much more than 5 years more driving myself, so....

Female thinking....

Well, she might be right...

1950s style and class.

EMD F7 locomotive
Produced: February 1949 – December 1953
Engine type: Two-stroke V16 diesel
Displacement: 9,072 cu in
Power output: 1,500 hp
Loco weight: 247,300 lb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F7



Santa Fe promo film for the Super Chief passenger train set to the music of Count Basie & His Orchestra's song Super Chief.
Featuring the lovely actress Virginia Leith.

Yes.

Copy and paste this phrase into your favorite search engine:

“Did they put the Detroit Diesel in any pickups?”

Same pickup...next day.

Wooo!

567 cubic inches of Detroit 2 Stroke power in each of the 16 jugs!

Jim, I just got in from an afternoon pistol shoot as well, froze my ass a little in that breeze!

Slight sidetrack but this was in the cab of a diesel, more bougie chit...lol



Should note that the beer box was empty and I was gonna use it as a target. Safety first...

The bougie bag is pretty f'n handy, lots of room.

I’ll see your EMD F7 locomotive and raise you….

4 General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines. 😎😁

I do regret selling...

No pictures, my favorite: 2001 ford F-350 club can , 6 speed manual tranny, 8’ box, single rear axle, 7.3 power stroke with 110,000. Barely broken in. It will out live me.

No pics as well, but dad literally drowned an old Mack years ago. Thing was running when it went into the river. After we rebuilt it, if you put the thing in just the right bind, it would choke down and start running backwards.


Put it in reverse and it would go forward, dump the clutch on 2nd gear and she would go backwards.

You would have to kill the engine and restart it and all was good.

Truck was a beast.

‘93 7.3 idi non turbo. Still in service at 186,000

Hand cranks hurt people, electric starters need a problematic battery. Shotgun start is the way to go. But use a blank.

My father designed mobile artillery, but did not get to choose the diesel engine. That contract was awarded based on what state the engine was made in. If you could have chosen, he would take Cummins.

My cousins replace their tug boat engines with giant Caterpillar engines.

Based on the sound they made in dump trucks dumping gravel in my driveway, I liked Detroit Diesel.

When I was a janitor at Kenworth, all diesel engines made a mess at full throttle on the dynamometer.

but the 6.2 version saved their ass 🙄🙄🙄


the 6.5 turbo was their first reasonable one and it was bad at twisting cranks...

My next 'old diesel' pickup will be a fummins

You left out that they sounded like a handful of gravel in a steel can.

Air Starters?

99 F250 7.3 354000 miles

That's a ways back, glad they didn't catch on.

My dad drove a gasoline tanker, day trips, for decades & I'd go with him about once a year. While he was loading I'd walk around the terminal just looking at trucks n stuff. Just as I was walking right in front of a cab over truck the driver hit the air starter. What a quick hideous sound, a sudden burst of an air wrench, volume times 5 followed by a big diesel firing up. Never before or since in my 70 years have I been that startled. I was about 8 yo & it felt like in turned me inside out. Never forgot it.

Thought the driver had done something to scare me & when I told dad he explained what that vile apparatus was.

Air starts don't bother me. Of course I'm used it on aircraft. I'm sure the sound is about the same for a truck. Must say, in 30 years working in the HE field, never seen or heard an air start on a truck. When did they stop using it?

My first exposure to an air starter was about 1976 while working at the Exxon gas station. The transports all had them. It didn't scare me as I was fascinated by anything related to more power. I appreciated them the same as I celebrate a jet fighter in full afterburner.

2004 lb7 duramax. Farm truck and daily driver

First & last time I ever heard it. About 8 yo & 3 feet away. Yep, startled the hell out of me. Hell, must have been about 1960+. They never caught on I guess. Had it been further away or common, no thing.

Top fuel dragsters firing up about as haunting as it gets & represent about 12,000 HP, but beauty. Just as long as you're expecting it.