Forced truck upgrade.

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1st tank of fuel 16.2 mpg.  2nd tank 14.1, but for about 150 miles i towed 11k#

Trying to find a bodyshop to fix the clear.   super common prob for the vintage.  still debating on a gear vender over drive.   It is really only useful at 70+ as you need to maintain about 1400rpms to keep the 4r100 happy.   an extra 22% od at 80 would be nice.   still at 4k+ you have to have your drive shafts modified. you never actually break even when it comes to $.  still having what amounts to 8 gears can be very useful.


I cant tell you how much i miss having a diesel. just being able to let the turbo spool up for more power is very nice.

  my last truck was the 1st non diesel and 2wd i have owned in almost 20 years. 

you know what they say about temporary fixes.  they are permeant until they break again.

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New vehicles are too expensive nowadays.  The 2006 diesel F250 we have has the 6.0 engine which had to be bullet proofed to make it what it should be.  I just put a new fuel pump in it and it's needing a couple of new batteries.  Something like a quarter of a million miles on it now and it should be good for another 100-150k miles.

The F150 I have has 190k miles on it and sports a lifter issue.  Since the F150 is gas I'll be putting a Ford crate engine in it sometime by mid-summer. 

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Tell me about it.  The last service truck was just under 180k.