First Truck!!!!

We drove ten hours total round trip to get my truck today! I'm pretty dam excited!! Its a 2002 F-250 Lariat. It has the 7.3l automatic trans not the 6.0.  I paid 11 grand cash to a military guy who was really cool in san Luis Obispo.  It has air bags on the rear axle and a 3 in lift other than that it is stock for now. It doesn't have the standard size hitch receiver, it looks like a 3 in or something because a standard one is to small. Did these trucks come on 285s or is that slightly bigger than factory? Now I got to find a cool power stroke forum or diesel forum. It has 107,000 thousand miles! I'm sure I'll think of other things also. Anyways I'm tired and extremely happy!!!       

sweet  truck..  if u got questions I know quite a bit about the powerstroke engine...   Oh and wuts wrong with the 6.0?

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[url=][img]          my 05  6.0 Powersmoke.  :-)

Thanks! Nice truck, the reason I didn't buy a 6.0 is because I can't afford to do head studs, head gaskets are anything of that matter if anything goes wrong, plus to find a lower millage one is a little out of my price range. What exhaust and intake do you recommend, that's about all I'm going to do, can't afford to build the trans or put a whole lot of money in her.
Thanks!

congrats Grasshopper, I still remember my first car, it was a 73 F250 4x4 longbed with headers and glass packs, 4" lift w/35's

You just got yourself one hell of a truck!  The trans may need attention one day, but other than that, you should be good for a while.

As far as performance goes, all I know is my friend's 7.3 will run like hell with the banks six gun on it.  I don't even know if they still make that tunner or not, but it is amazing.  Level 2 and 3 gives 19mpg with 35s on it, and level 6 flat out runs like crazy.  Watch the exhaust temps after the mods though.  His will get a little hot if he dogs it for a few miles with it maxed out.

I think they all came with 265/75 16s on them.

Thanks guys. A friend of ours has 4 powerstrokes, two 7.3s and 2 6.0s and he said he knows a place that will rebuild the trans for 1800 bucks when it comes time.

4" turbo back exhaust alone will wake it up, and my pops likes his S&B I bought him.  and as far as a tuner there is a ton out there depending on what you are lookin for as far as performance or towing... you could do intake and exhaust for probly under 500$     my pops has a superchip pretty much just for the trans shifting points and boostsd.kine pressure.

thats a good deal make sure when you do the trans do the all billit and upgraded torque converter. we did my pops and it shifts awesome ....

Ford-trucks.com or powerstroke.org. Both are good. I like the ford-truck.com personally. I have an 03 6.0 liter.

good lookin truck ...congrats

Good lookin ride !!  They either came with 235's , or 265's ...my 02 had the 265's on it new.  I'm runnin a Diablo chip , with the three position switch...think it's like +75 hp on low , and + 115 on high.  I'm happy w/the set-up ....only run it on high , whenever I wanna "smoke-out" sum "yuppie" in a ragtop !!...lol  Black smoke is kool ; but , at $4 a gallon , I don't flip the "smoke-switch"  (that's what my son calls it ) very often.

Yotehunter66 wrote:

Ford-trucks.com or powerstroke.org. Both are good. I like the ford-truck.com personally. I have an 03 6.0 liter.

 
do you have anything performance wise done to your 6.0?

congrats!!!!..looks nice!!

Nice looking truck, can haul a lot of toys with that.

Nice truck, Grasshopper ! And yes the receiver is 3in. so You can use a bigger hitch. They do make an adapter to make it normal size. Wish You was closer, I have an 2 adapters laying right here beside my desk You could have.

Nice ride.

Very nice first ride! Beats the heck out of mine which was a 1963 handed down Chevy station wagon with a six cyclinder!!

Nice truck I work on those everyday,my first truck was a 1972 F-100 with a 302 loved that truck.

congrats, McKay!
be sure to let us know when you get the propane tank hooked up

Nice truck good luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKn0vynOcgE&feature=youtube_gdata_player.    here is a video of my truck its stock