I was talking to Cederq earlier, he is looking hard at getting a Ford truck. His old Chevy is getting close to 300,000 miles on it but it still runs and drives good.
This old boy has set the bar pretty high though.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
I have a buddy that has a machine shop. His 2002 F-250 7.3 rolled over 1.4 million miles this summer. It makes almost daily runs from south Atlanta to Jacksonville FL and back. He has gone through a couple of transmissions, injectors, injector pumps, and has had to put some new gaskets on the oil pan. He swapped the oil pump when he did the oil pan gasket/rear seal. Almost all are highway miles and it rarely tows a trailer. The bed is loaded coming and going and he gets 20+mpg.
Wow.
What year is Sam’s truck?
Looks to be a 1999 to 2001 Silverado
The old guy and me have the same problem, my front grill emblem fell out too, but I still have the emblem. Haven’t applied adhesive, which I have, lazy I guess… My biggest problem is getting into the Ford, it sits higher than my Chevy and believe me I have to heist a butt cheek a bit higher to get in. I get the truck, running boards are in my immediate future…
With those little stubby legs you’re limping around on you should get a Mini Cooper and call it good.
Used to have a customer that owned half a dozen Ford diesels for his hot shot business. His most active truck averaged a bit under 100k miles a year (5.5 year old truck with 500k on the clock). He did most of his own maintenance but he came to us for the oil changes. He didn’t want to deal with disposing that volume of waste oil.
Try that up here.
The salt would have eaten that thing to pieces before now. Most all the vehicles here die from cancer long before the drivetrains fail.
I’ve talked to him. Sounds like a decent rig.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Well, my stable has a few miles on each, the Jeep is at 230K, the SHO is at 390K, and my Beaver Motor Coach is at 35K (which is extremely low for a 1985 model!).
I do NOT trade in my vehicles, I keep ’em running myself. Far, far cheaper to not have to pay interest on something that is of lesser quality than what I have now.
I only have about 300,000 on my body, and I’m beat to fuck.