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DIESEL WORLD MAGAZINE
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JACOB WHITE
PROJECT MY2K: PART 6 BUYING USED AND GETTING BACK TO BASICS ver the course of it’s nine year run of production, International produced almost 2-million 7.3L Power Stroke engines for Ford. Yeah, 2-million engines for the 1994-2003 Ford trucks, most of which we’d dare bet are still out there chugging along. That big cubic inch diesel engine was a workhorse in it’s day and was of
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the big reasons the Ford Super Duty introduced in 1999 was so successful. We picked up this 2000 F350 this past year from the original owner with the intentions of building a solid daily driver, capable of doing just about anything we asked of it and so far, it’s headed right down that path. With what is not considered ‘low-mileage’ for a 7.3L truck, at only 165,000 miles
she runs great but still needs some work in places. Most recently, we finished up the installation of new rotors and pads, upgraded the high pressure oil system and have even done the basic power adding package with an intake, exhaust and tuning from Edge Products. But even more recently than that, that
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