VinylHanger
08-23-2005, 12:58 AM
Well, as I wrote in a earlier post, I have been unsuccessfully trying to revive my good buddy with 278,000 on it, and 90,000 on the motor. Well, after spending 1,500 bucks to pay it off and it going tits up, I decided to put another 500 or so into it to get it going again. This truck has been a runner, beat and bruised but always going.
Well, this weekend I finally realized it was time to put it out to pasture. I spent 10 hours on it saturday, between turning a wrench and hitting the net for help, I came to the realization it would be another 400 bucks for ignition and control parts to get it to run reliably. Of course I then would have a truck with 270,000 miles that had 400 bucks worth of new parts at a minimum that is. I am gratefull I've got my money out of it, and I am going to keep it. I've told my wife it will become a planter to keep on bugging the local complaining busy-body old lady. I'm going to put a handful of big-assed trees in buckets in the back till I decide to get it going again.
Anyway, the upshot is that I had to spend Sunday looking for a new rig. As I said before, it ain't easy running a construction company out of a Cherokee.
So Sunday I started to look. Did you know it is impossible to find a decent rig for under 5 grand. I was able to find a sweet 95 F250 4x4 Supercab Longbed with the mighty 460 big block, oh, yeah baby. :banana: :banana:
Downside is I now have the payments I was trying to avoid. Oh, well, guess that is why I work :cry:
Anyway, I just thought I'd let ya'll know what was happening. I figure this way I will get lots of "You dumbass, shoulda gotta Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, Nissan, smaller motor, bigger motor........... Oh, yeah, they don't make a bigger motor :D
Oh, there really wasn't much point to this post, just up late and felt like typing. If tomorrow goes well, I'll post pics. Of course I'll need to take out another loan to fill the tank to get it home. But it does get a whole 10 mpg. <------ this is my way of telling the eco freaks to pound sand, if I wanna use a lot of gas, I will. :yes:
Well, this weekend I finally realized it was time to put it out to pasture. I spent 10 hours on it saturday, between turning a wrench and hitting the net for help, I came to the realization it would be another 400 bucks for ignition and control parts to get it to run reliably. Of course I then would have a truck with 270,000 miles that had 400 bucks worth of new parts at a minimum that is. I am gratefull I've got my money out of it, and I am going to keep it. I've told my wife it will become a planter to keep on bugging the local complaining busy-body old lady. I'm going to put a handful of big-assed trees in buckets in the back till I decide to get it going again.
Anyway, the upshot is that I had to spend Sunday looking for a new rig. As I said before, it ain't easy running a construction company out of a Cherokee.
So Sunday I started to look. Did you know it is impossible to find a decent rig for under 5 grand. I was able to find a sweet 95 F250 4x4 Supercab Longbed with the mighty 460 big block, oh, yeah baby. :banana: :banana:
Downside is I now have the payments I was trying to avoid. Oh, well, guess that is why I work :cry:
Anyway, I just thought I'd let ya'll know what was happening. I figure this way I will get lots of "You dumbass, shoulda gotta Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, Nissan, smaller motor, bigger motor........... Oh, yeah, they don't make a bigger motor :D
Oh, there really wasn't much point to this post, just up late and felt like typing. If tomorrow goes well, I'll post pics. Of course I'll need to take out another loan to fill the tank to get it home. But it does get a whole 10 mpg. <------ this is my way of telling the eco freaks to pound sand, if I wanna use a lot of gas, I will. :yes: