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Coming back up thru California, stopped at a Truck Stop for fuel and ran into a guy who had an old VW Squareback in Great Shape on a Trailer and then a 1969 Z/28 on it also...so we talked about the two cars he was towing on the flat bed...
They weren't his.. he just tows things for a living... based out of Bend Oregon...
He was running an 02 Ford Diesel F 350 4 WD pickup with the diesel engine in it...
Showed me he had 910,000 miles on the odometer.. and claimed the diesel had never been rebuilt.
Also said, Ford and the Dealer there in Bend, told him when he hits a million miles on it, if he trades it in for a new Diesel.. they'll just give him a new truck....
Don't know if that is true, but I did see an odometer with 910,000 miles on it...
guess an 0-2 would be the old 7.3 International Engine.
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Those 7.3 PowerStrokes are legendary.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Those 7.3 PowerStrokes are legendary. I've had three. Not a one made it past 377K miles. Injectors, blow by/oil consumption, low power. The Cummins is a better motor by a country mile.
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To New Mexico and back... now the 4 Runner has passed the 550,000 mark....
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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01 Toyota Tacoma 257k and still going strong
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97 4-runner: turned 300,000 miles just the other day.
Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is. dogzapper
After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb
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My F250 only have 260,000. Runs great but I want a new truck. Interesting sentiment, dennisinaz. I have 188K miles on my 2003 GMC and I like it more each day. I think a new truck would be nothing but a disappointment for me.
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04 Duramax 2500 4x4 just read 313,313 pulling in the garage tonight.. Been a great truck. Thinking of a new truck, but I'm leery of the new diesels that require DEF.
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Western Star Tri Drive Cat 3406 just over 700 thou 18 speed Eaton Fuller gearbox
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99 Z71 Sierra 5.3 motor with 309k on it.
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The 06 Silverado that I purchased new had 237k on it when I traded it in last year. All with cheap gas, and regular maintenance. 3 front wheel bearings and two new front rotors were the only significant repairs. The 2011 version of the same that I traded it in on hasn’t been as trouble free as the last one, but it’s probably my fault, for being too gentle with it.
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04 Duramax 2500 4x4 just read 313,313 pulling in the garage tonight.. Been a great truck. Thinking of a new truck, but I'm leery of the new diesels that require DEF. I've heard it suggested that Ford & Dodge sell new trucks without engines so diesel owners can just swap in their perfectly good motors. Don't count on it ever happening.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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sold this '98 Taco w/233K on it........still ran like champ ! but like I told my 2nd ex wife......just needed more space........... so I've got a '14 Taco DCSB....has only 71K on it......6 sp manual
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T R U M P W O N !
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There was the one time going from Taos to the ABQ after a handful of 'shrooms washed down with no label mescal when I ran over a 10 foot tall spider with tentacles for legs. Those would probably qualify as my highest miles on a truck.
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I seen a lime green elephant pulling a chainlink gate across the road, on his hind legs, on that same stretch. Musta been to keep that spider from wandering.....
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Badger: I am hoping to someday see 1,000,000 miles on my 1996 Dodge Cummins Diesel - I have 126,000 (6,000 miles per year average) on it now so I have a LONG way to go. Needless to say with the current price of pickup trucks I only bring my diesel VarmintMobile out on "special" occasions anymore! I bought it new and folks often ask if I will sell it (as its the last of the VERY dependable and VERY good mileage 12 valve models) to them. Anyway I would like to have a new truck but would NOT even consider paying the prices that they are asking for them. Some time back I had a friend that drove his Dodge Diesel back and forth everyday from Miles City, Montana to Billings, Montana (and at Christmas season he made the trip twice a day!) packing U.S. mail and he had over 1,000,000 miles on his Dodge Cummins - he told me the only thing he had replaced were the tires! His truck was an automatic and mine is the 5 speed manual transmission. Back when I started buying 4x4 pickup trucks (1968) it was not unusual to have to rebuild a gas engine at 60,000 - 70,000 miles! Times have changed. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Badger: I am hoping to someday see 1,000,000 miles on my 1996 Dodge Cummins Diesel - I have 126,000 (6,000 miles per year average) on it now so I have a LONG way to go. Needless to say with the current price of pickup trucks I only bring my diesel VarmintMobile out on "special" occasions anymore! I bought it new and folks often ask if I will sell it (as its the last of the VERY dependable and VERY good mileage 12 valve models) to them. Anyway I would like to have a new truck but would NOT even consider paying the prices that they are asking for them. Some time back I had a friend that drove his Dodge Diesel back and forth everyday from Miles City, Montana to Billings, Montana (and at Christmas season he made the trip twice a day!) packing U.S. mail and he had over 1,000,000 miles on his Dodge Cummins - he told me the only thing he had replaced were the tires! His truck was an automatic and mine is the 5 speed manual transmission. Back when I started buying 4x4 pickup trucks (1968) it was not unusual to have to rebuild a gas engine at 60,000 - 70,000 miles! Times have changed. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy My ‘14 gets used a little more than that. Clicked over 91k miles yesterday with it. Plan is to do 300k just like the last one and then re-evaluate. Company truck so there are some benefits to replacing it rather than keeping it forever. My ‘03 which I sold to a friend and Campfire member in Houston is still going well at 350k plus miles. I do miss that truck, it was a lot faster than this one is
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To annoy a liberal, tell him the truth.
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Just bought a truck from a friend for my youngest son who is fixing to turn 16. It's a 2001 F150 4x4 with the 5.4. It's got 232,000 on it. In the last year, he had the front end rebuilt and the rear axles and bearings replaced. Had all of the electric window and door lock motors and switches replaced and the heater core and blower. Everything on the truck works perfectly and the engine runs nice and smooth. Tranny feels good. Kept it garaged its whole life. Hopefully it'll last him into (through) college. It's extremely clean inside and out. Interior is spotless and nothing broken or missing. Son doesn't turn 16 till middle of December, so I've been driving it. I kinda want to keep it for myself, ha!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
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In the fall of 1999 I bought a first year production 2000 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4x4. Drove it until September, 2009 and put 320 something thousand miles on it. It ran great when I traded it. I had to replace brakes and shocks twice each but that was all that ever needed replacement and it didn't burn a drop of oil or transmission fluid.
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