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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CC379" data-source="post: 3649805" data-attributes="member: 25394">look on youtube some guys are buying nice late model ford diesel trucks real cheap then putting pre-electronic Cummins in them. if you ever want to go above stock hp on a ford diesel you need really deep pockets, my brother had a 7.3 ford non turbo welding truck, think he put about 300,000 miles on it with very few problems, even pulled a gooseneck some with a welder on it, was slow going but it got the job done.my dad got a dodge 1ton the first year they came out with the Cummins, it supposedly only had 160hp but I swear it was more like 400hp it could take off in third gear and smoke the tires, it pulled gooseneck trailers like nothing was back there, then he got I think a 91 year model supposedly had more hp & torque but it was a dog had to dang near floorboard it and slip the clutch to take off with a trailer, kind of like the old 7.3 fords dad wouldn't ever let anyone boost the power on it which would have cost next to nothing, I got a 2001 dodge Cummins that I will never sell, it has the bad vp44 fuel pump, has been replaced twice in 170,000 miles, had a smarty & edge chip and a few other fuel mods supposedly about 150hp over stock, it would melt tires but the automatic transmission is a POS DTT job, billet shafts and all guaranteed for life, DTT pulled a perfectly good transmission out of my truck and put a real pos in it, DTT rebuilt it about 6times in 2 months, then after it was too late to cancel the credit card payment, DTT told me to go pound sand, had the trans rebuilt in Stillwater tried to make it last as long as possible still burned up, had Blumenthal's in OKC rebuild it but it still slips if I get on it, unhooked the smarty & edge chip several years ago, transmissions and tires cost too much. The last truck I bought is a 2014 ram 2500 4x4 gutless hemi it has less than 2,000 miles on it, just prefer driving the old Cummins</blockquote>

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