Bought a V10 today.

[QRTRHRS]

Here is my latest "brain storm". My wife and I have both been married previously. So, I have "stuff". She has "stuff". Our mothers passed away. We got their "stuff".

I decided to buy a box van to start flea marketing to get rid of some of this "stuff", lol! Plus, I can use the truck to haul hay in. No straps, no worrying about rain. Also, we are going to downsize house and propertly wise again but stay in the same area so I won't have to rent a truck.

I picked up an 04' E450 with a 16' foot box. It has 181k but looks and runs better that trucks with half that milage that I looked over. It has E-track and a translucent roof. The roll up door is smooth. New tires, new battery. It has a hitch tube but I need to take it to a certified welder to get some reinforcement. No ramp or lift gate but it has room under the box to come up with a ramp solution.

Since I don't need to use this as a daily driver, the V10 does not bother me over the wimpy 5.4.

About the only thing I see that I need to do is pull the front box corners off to reseal them and the rolled aluminum panel at the front top leaks from flexing. Pretty typical for a box. There is also a spot on the floor in one corner that has water damage. Other than that, good to go.

I have been intrigued by the Izuzu's and I had been bidding on an IH CF500 on Ebay but I don't have the extra 10k more or less so this will do me.

 

[Bob77064]

Good looking truck, real clean.

 

[dusty3030]

I want a dump truck so bad but had to agree to wait till the house is paid.
Nice truck though. Nice thing about a box like that is you don't have to unload it, just lock it and leave it.

 

[timswi]

Looks great..I have a V10 in a '97 E450 MH. Moves the MH well..

 

[two_bit_score]

Here is my latest "brain storm". My wife and I have both been married previously. So, I have "stuff". She has "stuff". Our mothers passed away. We got their "stuff".

I decided to buy a box van to start flea marketing to get rid of some of this "stuff", lol! Plus, I can use the truck to haul hay in. No straps, no worrying about rain. Also, we are going to downsize house and propertly wise again but stay in the same area so I won't have to rent a truck.

I picked up an 04' E450 with a 16' foot box. It has 181k but looks and runs better that trucks with half that milage that I looked over. It has E-track and a translucent roof. The roll up door is smooth. New tires, new battery. It has a hitch tube but I need to take it to a certified welder to get some reinforcement. No ramp or lift gate but it has room under the box to come up with a ramp solution.

Since I don't need to use this as a daily driver, the V10 does not bother me over the wimpy 5.4.

About the only thing I see that I need to do is pull the front box corners off to reseal them and the rolled aluminum panel at the front top leaks from flexing. Pretty typical for a box. There is also a spot on the floor in one corner that has water damage. Other than that, good to go.

I have been intrigued by the Izuzu's and I had been bidding on an IH CF500 on Ebay but I don't have the extra 10k more or less so this will do me.

Nice looking truck. Since you are going to work on the hitch and add ramps or whatever, have you thought about getting a lift gate? Something like a Tommy lift would be amazing on that truck.

 

[94BULLITT]

They are good motors. From what I have heard they do good towing. They sound good with loud pipes too.

 

[aczlan]

Nice truck.

Aaron Z

 

[WD40]

Nice truck, and I see why you would want to do a little work on that hitch.
Doug

 

[rrrkkk]

Be very careful of V10 sparkplugs some were only threaded into the head with several threads and when they are removed they strip the head, not impossible to fix in truck, but takes special tooling too do. Later models did not have this problem

 

[Diamondpilot]

Nice find. I am sure its rear end gearing is deep and it should fo a very nice job for you.

Chris

 

[Stick895]

Find a wrecked POS that has a lift gate/ramp contraption that would work and transplant it to your truck.

 

[aczlan]

Find a wrecked POS that has a lift gate/ramp contraption that would work and transplant it to your truck.

Something like: USED WALTCO LIFT GATE | eBay or Waltco 2000# Liftgate. 11 Months Old | eBay perhaps?

Aaron Z

 

[QRTRHRS]

I think by 04' that the plug problem was solved. Hope so anyway.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Those are some good leads. I need to do some research on what these gates weigh and look for the most capacity with the least weight. I had checked out an 02 with an aluminum gate the other day. The truck was beat but the gate still worked pretty well. That would be sweet.