Should have stayed away from the 6.4 vs 7.3 thread...

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Bringing this back up. CCSB dually is proving to be a leprechaun. Lol! But still looking.

Quick question what are y'all's experience with the 350 vs 450. Ride quality, towing, cost of maintenance, braking, insurance, ect.
 
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I was looking for a truck and ended up buying this! Thanks to the forum I found me a shortbed dually. Bought it yesterday with 90k on the clock for $22,600. Just couldn't pass it up.

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I was looking for a truck and ended up buying this! Thanks to the forum I found me a shortbed dually. Bought it yesterday with 90k on the clock for $22,600. Just couldn't pass it up.

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Nice! I need to get my old Dinos sold. Are those fenders standard size fenders, or are they shorter? I've been thinking about going with a 450 and shortening it. Since the trucks themselves are rare I imagine finding a clean bed would be hard as well. Could probably pick up a SRW short bed and put the fenders on.
 
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The drivers side fender is unique to the short bed. It has the fuel door in the dually fender. You could get a short bed and put dually fenders on it. You would just have to find a short bed drivers side dually fender, which I would say you will probably not find one except for new.

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Drivers side fender extension is different between long and short beds because of the fuel filler neck. Tadd converted the '11 he has back to srw, so that bed might be for sale if anybody is interested. It was originally off an '04.
 

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Anything in particular to look for on these trucks, besides the normal? i.e.;smoke, noise, slack, rattles, degas...

What about build dates, or model years. Kinda like going from early 99, to 99.5 & up, to when they swapped to forged rods.
 

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Job 1 is plenty good (my truck's build date is 01/07) but there are a few benefits to the later versions, but nothing like early vs late 99's. External vs internal filter on the trans, and some of the radiators had problems. Most of those got fixed under warranty though. Just make sure the previous owner didn't abuse it too bad.
 

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