F650 as 5th wheel tow vehicle.
I'm currently towing my KZ Montego Bay Sportster with a 14K dry weight and close to 20K fully loaded with a 1999 F550 7.3 with 4.88 rear end. I'll start by saying I love this truck. In most all situat...
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Wild Card wrote:
You can find the f650 with Cat and Cummins engines. Your issue is not enoug gears in the transmission.
Any modern diesel with 6spd trans will pull that trailer 3 times better.
No argument there just can't to spend the $75 to $80 grand for the new 6.7. Just retired so don't want to take on a bunch of debt. Not a fan of car payments.
I've been seeing the western Haulers and ford Supercrewzers with asking prices $36 to $39K 2001 to 2006 with cat/Allison combo. 99 to 150K on the clock.
Sell my F550 for $10K and my 76 Bronco with explorer MPI 5.0 for $17K and I'm not coming out of pocket too much for the F650.
