# If you had to buy a used diesel truck today..

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [November 19, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-you-had-to-buy-a-used-diesel-truck-today/261396 "2011-11-19T11:47:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-you-had-to-buy-a-used-diesel-truck-today/261396/50 "2011-11-20T18:15:04Z")

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> [@Which would you pick?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-would-you-pick/46724/6):
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> [http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/2645809530.html](http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/2645809530.html) There’s that, but the rockers “showing their age” doesn’t really get me excited about it. Everything else about it is cool though, the tool box, plow, brake controller, etc.
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> [http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/2678878009.html](http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/2678878009.html) This is cool as well but I feel like it’s probably been beaten on.
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> [http://albany.craigslist.org/ctd/2686424742.html](http://albany.craigslist.org/ctd/2686424742.html) If that was cheaper I’d be interested in it… but it’s dinged up and it seems like he’s asking the kind of price he should be getting without all of the defects.
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> I’m not hesitant about the cummins. I’m hesitant about literally every other piece of the truck.
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> I love the allison tranny. I also like the ~750 lbs/ft of torque that 6.6 duramax puts out. It gets decent milage and probably would be better even with a tuner. I don’t know very much about the ford trucks. I’ve always preferred ford cars though.
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> **Something tells me that 7.3 sucks on fuel.**

7.3 is hands down the best motor ever put in a ford. My 350 supercab dually is getting 16mpg avg with 19 straight highway.

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