[Jess 1996 F-350 7.3L CCLB]

😂 yep mine ain’t pretty either literally everything including the interior is covered in this greasy soot-like substance. Whoever owned it before me never did any kind of maintenance or anything, obviously it leaks oil more than a straw hut when it rains but that same oily substance from it leaking and the engine throwing it everywhere plus dirt is not only all over the entire engine bay it’s also behind the door panels and in the hinges I’m honestly surprised the truck doesn’t have more problems than it does😂

 

[1970something]

hey now, my baby is a pavement princess that loves to get dirty!!!
the "rattletrap" sittin tall and purrty:

 

[Jess 1996 F-350 7.3L CCLB]

that ain’t a pavement princess I mean the ones with massive rims and no tires and the squatted ones. Basically all the useless trucks people make😂😂

 

[1970something]

that truck has been places i would be afraid to take a bulldozer. as long as the transfer case in in 4X4 with hubs locked it is unstoppable.
but forget to pull it in 4 wheel, and it will get stuck on wet grass.
i built it for my heavy equipment escort service, and running into swamps to get to pipelines when i was not doing escorts and running heavy machinery. easier to drive the truck a mile into the swamp than to bring the dozer or excavator out every night and than back in in the morning.
it has been in 4 foot of salt water at least a dozen times doing recovery of dead vehicles out in the bay, picking people off the roof of their cars after driving around the baracades and into flooded depressions on the highway, and evacuating old timers from their housed when the low areas flooded in hurricanes.
our town did not have anything to go into water with back in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's. so when a rescue was needed i was called. one of the advantages, and also downfalls of being on and related to 3/4's of the police force and fire department..
it currently has a little over 496,000 miles on it.

 

[tcurry48]

I live in FL so not to concerned about any cold weather prohibiting it from starting but I haven’t been able to start my 7.3 for over a month now and I’ve replaced both batteries and all battery cables, still don’t wanna start. It holds 12.51v on both batteries and cranks up but won’t fire. It did almost fire once with the new batteries but haven’t been able to get that much luck since lol. I’m thinking next thing I do it both the starter and starter solenoid. Thoughts?

HPOP? Glow plugs/relay?

 

[Jess 1996 F-350 7.3L CCLB]

got it started, replaced the duralast cps with a motorcraft one and it cranked right up. So I returned that shitty duralast one😂

 

[Hendy]

I'm glad you got it figured out