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
It’s a bit like Triggers broom (from a British comedy show “Only Fools and Horses” ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM
Still, the same broom, though …
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.
What do you know one hit wonder?
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
I’ve picked up a couple broke-frame Chebbies of that era, around 150K or so in the salt without regular a regular douche and the frame rots out at the rear of the fuel tank just in front of the boxing plate.
By that time the round crossmember the tank slides up into is gone as well as the bottom of the frame along the tank, so you can get a decent drivetrain for like $500.
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.
I think that’s Cederq’s problem, the wimmens rode him hard and put him away wet. He’d better get himself a low-rider conversion like one of those LA rigs that the Messican gangbangers drive. He’d just kill a Mini Cooper, first model or the S, they’re roller skates, true, but are collector’s items.
Well, he always chased PK’s. That’s what happens.
mr sam is one cool dude, check out his cleaning stuff: https://www.samscarcare.com/
Yeah, he’s gotta be putting 30,000 miles a year on that thing. Me? I only put about 10,000 miles a year or so on the truck, another 2 or 3,000 on the bike. It’d take me 75 years to rack up that mileage.
I remember a story about some woman with a 60’s model car, some basic model econo-car like a Plymouth Valiant or similar, who hit the 1 million mark some time back. It can be done, but the more basic the vehicle the better the chances.
Only 750,00 to go to hit a million on the toyoedy
Same here on my ’86 1 ton tomata,I mean toyota.
If everything else is OK, I’d put a new crate motor and trans in Cederq’s truck, I’m an open minded Ford truck guy.. I have a ’93 4×4 GMC suburban with a throttle body 350, acceleration is mild. We just picked up q ’95 Buick, Roadmaster land yacht, with a factory 350, port injection Lt-1, with 90k miles. Wow, it is SURPRISINGLY fast (0 to 90, PRONTO!) and it gets 20 mpg on the freeway with cruise control. It’s in near perfect shape, must have been a garaged, grand folks car.
Hey Cederq, you’ve made Leigh a happy bloke. You know that he’s going to sleep soundly tonight now that it appears you’re batting for his team, snug in his sheets with the blue oval pattern.
Personally I consider it possible that you’re playing some sort of psychological trickery here. What’re you planning, going to stick a Ford badge where the Chubby Chebby badge used to sit?
I hope that Phil is ready to provide a necessary breakdown service for you two from his trusty Dodge!