Is anybody REALLY shooting for 500K miles?
06-24-2007, 10:02 AM
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all the work, sweat, blood, and everything else that has gone into it, ill stay with it for a very long time. id rather buy and sell another newer truck and keep this one... its been very good to me..
1/2 a mil? i see it happenin...
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09-09-2007, 08:39 PM
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190 ,500 miles i plan on seeing 500k and further. i have ordered dss, thuren hellbent ,billstiens, hx 40 with down pipe. i still dont have title either . too busy fixing everything falling apart around her. i am putting about 7-800 miles a week on for my business
09-09-2007, 09:11 PM
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My truck was built 7 years ago this month and it has 40,000 miles on it. I drive now @ about 10,000 miles a year so 460,000 more miles @ 10,000/year? I think thats 46 years, I'm 44 so that will make me 90. I don't think I will be able to get my leg up that high to get my a@% in the front seat. 1,000,000 miles I might be setting a record but not for miles but age = 140 years old!!
09-10-2007, 12:36 AM
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At this point I don't really care about how many miles it can go. It's more about how many YEARS it can go. Like stated above, it would take forever for me to get to 500k miles with how much I drive it. But if I can still turn the key and start the engine in 15 years, that's a good deal to me.
09-10-2007, 02:24 AM
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My girlfriends dad has over 600k on his with NO overhauls or serious work... heck the thing still has the stock valve cover gaskets on it. And half of those miles he has been runnin propane
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BTW: the motor has outlasted 3 trucks, 1 dodge, 2 Ferds, and now the current Chebby
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. BTW: the motor has outlasted 3 trucks, 1 dodge, 2 Ferds, and now the current Chebby
Scott
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09-10-2007, 12:37 PM
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Well, mine has 234K on it (220 when I bought it at the beginning of the year). Going strong as ever, and I plan on keeping it a LONG time! I'm 22 now, and I'd love to be still driving it when I'm in my 30s and beyond!
09-10-2007, 07:25 PM
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Hmmm! I just looked at a 98.5 1 ton quad cab,sport ,Auto,Rhino liner, Fith wheel hitch, with leather int, and related options.
Body and under cairage are in good conition for it's age. Asking price $11000. (yep $11000)
Now for the bad.
820000 mi.
I was stuned when he told me.
According to the person selling it there has been no magor engine work done and runs fine.
He said that the owner has a letter from Dodge stateing that they want the motor back at 1000000 mi. (he didnt say if they were giving him a new one) any body ever here of such a thing. I am kinda thiking about buying it, especialy if I know a new(rebuilt?) free motor is in its future. Wada think
Body and under cairage are in good conition for it's age. Asking price $11000. (yep $11000)
Now for the bad.
820000 mi.
I was stuned when he told me.
According to the person selling it there has been no magor engine work done and runs fine.
He said that the owner has a letter from Dodge stateing that they want the motor back at 1000000 mi. (he didnt say if they were giving him a new one) any body ever here of such a thing. I am kinda thiking about buying it, especialy if I know a new(rebuilt?) free motor is in its future. Wada think
Thats funny.
A friend of the family had an OLD first gen. By old I mean run down. It was a ranch truck. It had rust on just about every inch of it. The roof line was so rusty it looked like it was gonna fly off driving down the road. Anyhow, I went to talk to him at his job site and I didnt see his truck in the parking lot. I saw him inside and asked him about it and he said he had sold it and gotten a newer, used, CTD dually.
I then asked him why he got rid of it....engine bad?
He said, "Nah, it only had 529,000 and it didnt even burn oil yet."
I was shocked.
I was then disappointed when he said he sold it for $1500!
That would have been a nice 5-spd for my truck and an extra motor and axels.
Oh well.
09-10-2007, 07:29 PM
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09-11-2007, 05:47 AM
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09-11-2007, 09:12 AM
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I'm about to turn 250.000mi. Other than typical parts that wear out over time and clutch/5th gear. I just got back from a 2600 mile run in 3 days, pulling 17K lbs+++, and just the trailer on the way back. Runs great. 500k.....no problem.
09-11-2007, 10:46 AM
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I will roll 260K this week. She has been great since I bought her at 220K two years ago. Broken a few things but it has put up with alot so I cant complain. Now if the dash would quit falling apart. I really need to look into making a custom metal one before the factory one is laying in my feet!
09-11-2007, 10:55 AM
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I say that with everyone I get. I traded an 02 duramax 99000 miles an 04 cummins at 120000 miles, Now the 6.7 has almost 13000 miles and I plan on keeping this one. I already have more in it in aftermarket than the other two combined. I think once the aftermarket figures out the emissions stuff this will be the hotrod of the future.