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Dec 7, 2012 | 12:02 AM

darknight

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From: Big Sky Country

farewell 4.9

I just came to lament my selling of my beloved truck. I am hopefully getting it sold next week (to pay for the ext cab I bought). The new truck has a 5.8 and rocks some serious socks in power, but I will miss my 4.9 dearly. It is the way it has to be I guess. Maybe a miracle will happen and my wife will love the new extended cab and I will keep my 88' with the 4.9, and we'll sell the yukon. But I doubt it. So this is where I have come to sit and lament. I will miss the 4.9 sound in the morning, the way the torque flexes the truck as I stop the throttle.. I will miss that simple no BS engine under the hood that literally begs me to drive the cuss out of it for another 300k miles.
I can't drive it because I change my mind, my plan to pay off the new one, and I somehow will find myself in the mountains in low range driving where I shouldn't. So the story goes..
If it is to be that I sell it, I will return to the inline 6 forum one day with another one. Having this truck has founded a love for them that will outlast any V8 engine...
I digress.. Just some 11pm blues for ya'll

Dec 7, 2012 | 10:56 AM

Yaga1973

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From: Moore, OK

There's nothing like a big six! You'll enjoy your 5.8, as I have in the past in a 82 Bronco I had, but something always brings me back to the 300/4.9. It isn't the fastest, but it will always get you there, no matter what you throw at it!