Hello to you too and thank you i'm gonna need it hehe

I'm also really glad to be here, the community is amazing i never thought that this thread would have so many replies. All of you are a bunch of cool dudes.

Thank you again, the country really is beautiful, but you live in a wonderful one too. One day i hope to see some of your natural wonders. And hey if you're ever tempted to visit Slovenia i always have a bed, a meal and a beer for good people

Well the shipping process goes like this. I only looked up shipping costs from Oregon and LA. That's ussualy the classic route people take. So from Newport to Rotterdam+ NL 9% import taSlovenia has 22%)+ transport to Slovenia comes to around 2500-3000€. I would happily buy from the EU and save myself some hassle. But the cheapest IDI that i can import tax free is for sale now for 14000€ there is one for 8500€ but it's a 1994 and becouse it's not considered an oldy the import tax is around 5-6000€ and i refuse to pay that crazy amout to the government becouse of some eco friendly bull****.

Oh the last one is great and it looks like the guy really kept up on the maintenance. It's a little rough around the edges but hey you know what they say beggars can't be choosers hehe

 

yup, proper maintenance does wonders. i bought my 88 new with 4 miles on it. it currently has 495,000 miles on it.
still purrs and drives like a kitten. i hope i can get the new cab on this spring. there is no floor left on the driver side.

 

You don't have any old road signs or licence plates to patch it up with?

Half the stuff I've found under carpet has made me laugh

 

nope, i have betterrer. i had a 17,000 mile 87 F-150 cab sitting in a shed at the body shop, it is now on my trailer under a tarp here at the home shop.
whenever we got a hit truck at the body shop we would cut the good half off and put it in storage for future use.
this 87 hit a tree at 10 mph and bent the bumper and hood after blowing a brake line. it was then back into the garage where it sat for 25 years until i got it in 2014.... for $500. i sold the 351 and trans for $500, so the body metal was free for my 88.

 

I hear that
you can't use the road signs you find down here in Texas because they are all full of Bullet holes
now Old License Plates might work fine

 

Up until about a decade or so ago the state boys were allowed to take home all the old bridge signs and they usually didn't have any holes in them.

But I know exactly what you're talking about. Seen my fair share that look like swiss cheese

 

the rat rod builder/crowd now uses road signs (with bullet holes) and old license plates as part of the patina

its funny how folks that were just making do in past turn into something thats popular and $$$

speaking of bullet and sans bullet hole road signs...

i was planning on using some of there on my 31 model a but i couldnt keep up with cost of owning it, sold it last month

registration here in ca for my idi is $400 a year meanwhile a buddy of mine in az pays $140 for 5 years

 

Just across the border from you, I pay $61 a year for the registration on my 86 F-250.
I`ll rub this in, $2.39 Diesel in Carson City.

Charlie

 

I had no idea registration was that high in Cali

Here in Texas I pay $79ish plus 7$ for a state inspection.

Paid 2.25 for diesel today Charlie

 

it's the Damned Bridge fees that kick it to 77+ the 2 or 3 dollar fee for "Convenience"

$2.22 for diesel at Valero little cheaper if ya go on the Base or at the refinery.

This is gonna change Real soon

 

Hahaha i love how you guys think it's expensive to run a truck there. 5$ for a gallon of diesel here and about 600 a year to register and insure the truck. For my beemer i pay 800€ yearly, gas is a bit cheaper lets say 4.9$ a gallon and with an average MPG of 12-13 it aint cheap

 

Back years ago when I was in the UK folks drove cars different than in the USA..... I'm talking over 50 years ago too.... but the British would take their car out and drive hell out of it on the weekend then it spent the rest of the week in the shop getting tuned up for the next weekend Mass transit was good in England didn't need the car and even back then Petrol was expensive.

it was much different in the USA back then our mass transit sucked and Fuel was cheap along with cars ....now days our Lazy kids can't even walk 1 block to a Convenience store...and most the Adults fall in that category too ..........

WE know it's cheap here compared to many other places around the world...well most of us do...not so sure about this new generation of Geniuses

 

I must say this thread has turned quite interesting, all kinds of stuff.
If I was to be advised about things to pay attention to in these old IDI trucks, I would point out the glow plug system. I've had hot pins melt a connector, and hot wires melt insulation on 10 AWG automotive wire I used to jump the socket, fusing to the FSS wire, (causing my truck to not turn off and the glow plug relay to stay on). It seems a fair number of people use 4 or 6 AWG wire direct to the glow plug relay, bypassing the factory wiring. I am in the process of moving my relay to the passenger fender and going with the single 4 AWG wire with a big (250 amp minimum?) fuse.
Other than that, in thirty years, and 90K miles, I'm on my third E04D automatic transmission, so the manual may be the smart thing to do. I'm thinking of swapping to a manual myself, and may look at other threads on this, or statr one
Regarding cavitation, the test strips are used to make sure the anticavitation additive is at the correct concentration in the coolant; I understand too much additive defeats the purpose, and you can get to the point where it is ineffective.
Other than cavitation pinholes in a cylinder, and glow plug wires getting too hot, and blown trannys, in thirty years I've only had to replace the differential U-joints once, and the brake cylinders twice (leakage). Big Red just keeps on running smoothly.
These are great trucks, very simple and strong. No computer to mess up. I've requested to be buried with mine, as it's been a best friend, doing everything I've asked of it with no complaints, whether it be hauling a full load of rocks or towing a 4-ton trailer (not necessarily fast). It's gonna be a big hole in the ground.
I hope Big Red appreciates the Banks Sidewinder Turbo that I'm giving him this month ;-)

 

and no state income tax!!!

fuel is on the way up, i was paying 2.75 last year and its already at 3.19

i am moving to kingman az (grandkids in los angeles) hopefully within the next 5 years

 

my 88 IDI cost $38 for the 4 year antique plate registration.....7 years ago.
as long as i keep the plates current they are free.
before that it was $149 per year for a 10,999 GVW registration.