my first powerstroke!!

Yesterday the wife & I came across a 02 f250 and I've always Ben in love with them so we stopped and done a test drive & to sum it up I fell in love! It had alot of miles on it(270,000) but that didn't scare me as long as I got it cheap enough so after talking with the salesman we talked him down to $8000 its a 2002 ext cab 4door 4x4 the interior is in excellent condition. Condition. So you guys think I got a good deal or what? Will post pics of interior later

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6.0 or 7.3?

7.3l auto sorry I forgot to put that in 1st post

nice looking truck :****:

when i decided to buy a diesel i had 2 choices, ford 7.3 or dodge cummins....i ended up with the cummins but both are the best of the older diesels out there imo

Yea I was trying to find a 5.9 L but they were all 2 expensive for me

Sharp truck! I would rather have the 7.3 than a 6.0 any day of the week but what do I know I prefer the Duramax.

kmcminn said:

Sharp truck! I would rather have the 7.3 than a 6.0 any day of the week but what do I know I prefer the Duramax.

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and you're also GAY

You will love the 7.3L. Buy an extra CPS, and hi pressure oil pump o-ring and keep them in the tool box.. Those 2 things are the only real issues the 7.3 has. The 4R100 trans is a POS. I went through 3 of them in the span of 30k miles( under warranty). Put a built suncoast trans in, and never had anymore issues. I still regret to this day getting rid of mine.. If it had been a manual trans's truck, I probably would have never gotten rid of it( It had 280K on it when I got rid of it).

How do I know what trans is in it? & jus found out it will not go no faster than 95 it falls on its face had to rush my wife to the e.r so figured that was a good time to open it up..and what is a cps?

If it has an auto, it has a 4R100 in it...Everytime mine failed, it was the torque converter that failed and set off a chain reaction.. CPS = Crank position sensor

And it falls on its face at 95 b/c it has a top speed limiter.. A programmer will do away with that though

Ok appreciate that lol I feel dumb now lol & with 270k on it I don't think I need 2 push it that fast anymore but would like a chip,cold air intake & Exhaust on it tho

That should be a good truck. I also just purchased an 02 F-250. The good thing about the 02 models is that they have a D60 front and not and D50.
My truck has 250K on it. It is a cc4wd. I have a 6.0L aftercooler,cold air, 4" exhaust and a Tony Wildman 6 position chip. It gets about 17.5 mpg around town and got 16.0 or so mpg towing the my 5k lb Jeep, heavy trailer and a bed full of camping junk to Morris Mt. this past weekend. I can not complain one bit about the power with stock injectors.

I am very concerned about my trans. though. I installed bigger coolers and also run a deep derale pan with them fancy tubes through it to help cool. I ran about 170* max while towing this weekend. Looking to upgrade the converter soon!

I work on diesel engine for a living and like the 7.3 and 5.9 engines. I currently would not want a newer diesel offered by the big 3 due to restrictions on the engine to meet emissions.

you may think about unhooking the batteries for a bit to reset the tranny computer, mine is an early 03 with the 7.3 and I hated the way it shifted when I first got it and a guy suggested i reset the tranny and drive the piss out of it. Shifts great and very happy with it now. Just my .02