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Old 01-05-2010 | 10:51 PM
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The KBB here for a 96 2500 club cab 4x4 5.9L in excellent condition 120,000 miles is $4040.
 
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Old 01-05-2010 | 11:10 PM
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6500 is overkill.....specially with those miles....
 
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Old 01-12-2010 | 02:19 PM
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i have a 98 with a 5.2 and 3.55 gears and i get 14mpg average empty cant imagine a 5.9 would be better. mine has 125,000 my family has owned it since it was new and the only problems i has were the water pump and fuel pump at about 105,000 miles tranny is still fine... X
 
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Old 01-12-2010 | 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by 95RAM360
i bought my 95 1500 5.9 4x4 with 186K. had 4.10 gears installed, new beefed up tranny, fuel pump, radiator, and wheel bearings

ive put in a port an polished modded intake with hughes plenum, intake/valve cover gaskets, plugs wires, coil, cap/rotor, shackles, all the suspension, exhaust, ball joints, fluid changes for everything, water pump, fan clutch, thermostat, door/rocker body work (rest of the truck has no rust), wiring problem figured out, starter, belt, and now i need to do the front u-joints.

its at 197K runs perfect, 4x4 works perfect (except for bad ujoint) and she gets 13-14 city, and 17-18 highway(if i set CC to 70)

I love the truck, its my DD, i put about 800 miles on her a week, and gas is really not a big factor. i get about 350 miles per tank doing 20% highway 80% city on a 26 gallon tank.

and i like my 4x4ing, so i do off roading a bit

and i got my truck for only 1800....so deals are out there make sure your not paying to much.
this is not actually accurate because he has 4.10 gears in his truck with 31" tires which means hes speedo and odometer read slower than actual...(unless he has a tuner module and had it reprogrammed which I dont believe is true..) When he has his cruize at 70 hes actually going 64mph...according to all the info he provided anyway..
 
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Old 01-12-2010 | 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 243Wags
i have a 98 with a 5.2 and 3.55 gears and i get 14mpg average empty cant imagine a 5.9 would be better. mine has 125,000 my family has owned it since it was new and the only problems i has were the water pump and fuel pump at about 105,000 miles tranny is still fine... X
tire size is also a big factor in mpg unless you are runnning all stock I have 35" mudders and a 5.9 with 4.56 gears and average about 13mpg on the highway on a cold windy day!
 
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Old 01-13-2010 | 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Augiedoggy
tire size is also a big factor in mpg unless you are runnning all stock I have 35" mudders and a 5.9 with 4.56 gears and average about 13mpg on the highway on a cold windy day!
i have 265/75/16's on it at the moment would i get better mpg if the the tires were bigger or smaller?
 




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