This is our 97 Ford F250 Powerstroke Diesel.

The engine is a 444 cubic inch V8 turbo diesel made by International.

It is a 4 door and we use this for our family vehicle and vacations.

The truck has over 166,000 miles on it and with the help of Biodiesel, should go another 200,000!

Diesel engines last forever!

UPDATE 1/2008

Getting closer to the 200k mark!  Now have 192,000 miles on the truck and its doing great!  Still going strong on homemade Biodeisel.

This is the 97 again.  We outfitted it with a 110 gallon auxiliary tank. Getting that big of a tank in there was no easy task. The truck is a short bed and no one made a tank that large for a 6' bed. We had to cut "pockets" into the front of the fender wells but the effort was worth it! The tank is plumbed through a heated filter and then into the stock fuel system just ahead of the stock selector switch.  The truck also has two factory tanks on it.  Our total fuel capacity is about 145 gallons.  Which equates to about 2,000 miles of driving between fill ups!

This is the fill for the auxiliary tank. The parts were obtained from a salvage yard.  The pipe inside the shell had to be custom made.  Sure makes filling that big tank a breeze!