The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Cap’n Smudge said:
Nathan, I’ve been looking around for other work vehicles because my stock 2006 Ford 6.0l diesel scares me without a few thousand dollars invested to bulletproof it. In my searching I recently came across a 1993 Ford 7.3l diesel. It’s single owner with only about 65K miles on it. My 6.0l has just shy of 100k. Should I go for the 7.3?
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Or go in the other direction and get the new 6.7. they're supposed to be a relatively long life engine although you have all the particle filter and diesel exhaust fluid and other crap. But it makes plenty of horsepower and is supposed to be pretty reliable.

I hear that just about anything is "very reliable" compared to the 6.0

I've been considering the new 7.3 Godzilla gasoline engine for my next truck. Diesels are getting where it's not tenable. The fuel is expensive and there's all this crap bolted to them that makes them break down now and the EPA is cracking down on people that want to bypass that stuff. You have to run them hard and get them hot or they goop up. They're not very good for just around town anymore.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Or go in the other direction and get the new 6.7. they're supposed to be a relatively long life engine although you have all the particle filter and diesel exhaust fluid and other crap. But it makes plenty of horsepower and is supposed to be pretty reliable.

I hear that just about anything is "very reliable" compared to the 6.0

I've been considering the new 7.3 Godzilla gasoline engine for my next truck. Diesels are getting where it's not tenable. The fuel is expensive and there's all this crap bolted to them that makes them break down now and the EPA is cracking down on people that want to bypass that stuff. You have to run them hard and get them hot or they goop up. They're not very good for just around town anymore.
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Hmmmm wonder if I could get a discount on that engine
 
steelcitysixteen said:
Thanks for the motivation! You pushed me over the edge! 🤣
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Mark4444 said:
"BTW, we have a website that we post some old inventory on sometimes if anybody is interested. https://carothersknives.com/shop/"

You think the website will have knife inventory anytime soon?

....You could always throw all those returned blades and canceled pre orders you get on there.
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We're doing a reorganization of the entire facility and trying to make a headway on these k20s. It has limited our output here recently. We were actually going to put these SDFK up on the website but I don't have DEK to sell here yet because we haven't sorted out our MC heat treat at Peters and I don't want to start selling them on Friday sales until we have more of the pre-orders shipped
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We're doing a reorganization of the entire facility and trying to make a headway on these k20s. It has limited our output here recently. We were actually going to put these SDFK up on the website but I don't have DEK to sell here yet because we haven't sorted out our MC heat treat at Peters and I don't want to start selling them on Friday sales until we have more of the pre-orders shipped
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Good luck on the facility, and getting those customer's some DEK.
 
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