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That's all Folks!!!
Well, I hate to say it, but I'm selling my truck. After all the damn work I've done to it over the last year or so, I finally thought I was done working on it. The last thing I did to it was installing a new clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder last Thursday. Well, Saturday Hoss left Debbie and myself on the side of the road in the rain waiting for a tow home. Something in the fuel system went to poo but I don't give a rat's rear end! 
This is the last straw!! I estimate that in the last 7 months, Debbie and I have sunk $1600 just keeping the truck running and Saturday just plain broke my spirit. You can only fight something for so long before you cry "uncle". So, I went to the dark-side and bought an 88 GMC Suburban with 108,000 miles for $1900. It's a better rig for us anyway since we're having a baby in November and we need people-hauling capabilities more than cargo carrying capabilities.
I'm selling Hoss for $1200 as-is and I hope somebody will buy it so I don't have to look at that thing anymore. It has only itself to blame for this. I'll still be hanging around here, I just won't be driving a Ford anymore.
This is the last straw!! I estimate that in the last 7 months, Debbie and I have sunk $1600 just keeping the truck running and Saturday just plain broke my spirit. You can only fight something for so long before you cry "uncle". So, I went to the dark-side and bought an 88 GMC Suburban with 108,000 miles for $1900. It's a better rig for us anyway since we're having a baby in November and we need people-hauling capabilities more than cargo carrying capabilities.
I'm selling Hoss for $1200 as-is and I hope somebody will buy it so I don't have to look at that thing anymore. It has only itself to blame for this. I'll still be hanging around here, I just won't be driving a Ford anymore.
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It gets almost double what my truck gets! I get 14 mpg's in the Suburban and I only get 8 in the truck. Besides, I don't have to drive it everyday, I won't let it get below 1/2 tank, and these gas prices won't be around forever.
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Well I must say at least you didn't buy anything with one of those POS Vortecs. I had a 95 GMC Jimmy with a Vortec motor and that thing was the deepest money pit I have ever seen. I was very happy to see it go, it was expensive to work on and a pain to do anything more than change the oil. I actually kinda like those old TBI GM 4.3 V6s and 350 V8s, sure they might not have had the performance that the newer Vortecs have... but they don't have half the problems. And they run for a long time, the only down fall of the late 80s GM trucks is the TH700R4 trannies... damn sloppy, slushy, slippery things. They wouldn't stand up to much abuse in a heavier vehicle. Don't dog him too hard guys, he's still a Ford man... he can still come back.
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OK, so cooler heads have prevailed. Even though I love my Suburban, (I hit a deer last night going 45 mph and it only put a hole in the grill the size of my fist), I have decided that with gas prices being what they are, I'm never going to sell it for what it's really worth and, secondly, sometimes you just really need a truck.
So, I'm going to go ahead and sell the 460 in it for $1000 complete and swap in the tried and true 300-6 and get exactly the drivetrain I want in a work truck. I figure even if I don't drive it everyday, I can still use it to tow the occasional trailer or haul the odd load of trash now and then. I can even drive it hunting or in the winter if the wife needs to use the 4x4 Suburban and I need 4x4 too.
Besides, I just can't see myself waiving goodbye to something I've worked so hard on. I guess I'm spoiled.
So, I'm going to go ahead and sell the 460 in it for $1000 complete and swap in the tried and true 300-6 and get exactly the drivetrain I want in a work truck. I figure even if I don't drive it everyday, I can still use it to tow the occasional trailer or haul the odd load of trash now and then. I can even drive it hunting or in the winter if the wife needs to use the 4x4 Suburban and I need 4x4 too.
Besides, I just can't see myself waiving goodbye to something I've worked so hard on. I guess I'm spoiled.
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Yup your a Ford guy. 2143 posts on FTE I think that qualifies. Sorry to here about your trucks problems.
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"and these gas prices won't be around forever".....
That was one month ago, when gas was cheaper.
That was one month ago, when gas was cheaper.
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And after I re-read my last post, I want to make it clear that I'm not selling the Suburban, I'm just keeping the truck to compliment it, (they're both red/white).
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"When prices were high and reserves low during the late 70's, everybody thought it would last forever but it didn't."
....That was when the Chinese and Indians rode bicycles. Not no more. GM sells more Buicks in China than in the US.
....That was when the Chinese and Indians rode bicycles. Not no more. GM sells more Buicks in China than in the US.
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Hoss is a 1986 F-250 HD 4x4 with a rebuilt 460, (22,000 miles on rebuild), t-19 4 speed, 4.10 gears. I have pics in my gallery.