Damon this hole post is just a cover to get mamma talked into this truck............" ain't it " ...and you really don't think that an f100 with a 4b will be any smoother running do you.



yeah we all see what's going on now.



Dar

 

HA!

Well, no, that just came up last night. My wife is just impulsive...and usually I am the one to talk us out of stuff...but when i get impulsive, she usually follows me in...

 

Yes, that old Ferd is the answer! It won't be loud at all. I am sure it will be as reliable as a new Volvo too! The price is right so far though.

 

Well, i think you misunderstand me on the noise. I don't mind the noisy old diesel...it's just that mine sounds wrong. It doesn't sound like it did or should...and after pulling the tranny back out 4 times, I'm getting tired of constantly chasing it.

I get really focused on something like that and can't let it go.

At lunch today I'm going to pull the two shifter boots and see if I can't better stuff the holes...I think that might be a good part of my issue.

Plus I think the ford would get better mileage. A savings of $20 a week would add up, dontchaknow?

 

I love this thread. About 2 years ago, we bought an unfinished log shell on 5 acres. So we needed a plow truck. Got a great deal on a 92 gmc 1/2 ton. Thought I would put a plow on it. My BIL owns a heavy duty truck repair shop about 30 mn s of me so I went to him. His cost on a 8' straight boss was going to be 2x what I payed for the truck. Needed a new plan. His dad my FIL had had the old blue ox, with an 8' straight myers, for about 20 years on his farm and had put about 18,000 miles on it mostly for farm work. He is blind in one eye and can not see out of the other so even though the truck only had 60,000 miles on it it looked like hell. So the family says we can have it for FREE and my FIL will get a newer one. Now my BIL warns me this truck suffers from under use and lack of maintenance and even though he will do the work for the cost of the parts and his guys labor cost's I need to be prepared to sink some money into it. So I think a cummings for FREE! awesome we will plow snow and haul with it and use the GMC as the DD.

Well 2 years and $11,000 later I had to sell the GMC to help pay the repair cost's so now she is my DD. My wife is livid about what I have spent. She almost will not talk to her brother because she is sure he is ripping us off and I do not even suggest we go for a ride in it. She says she hated the truck when she was growing up and she thinks it is getting even with her now.

So I think this was all a huge mistake and want to dump it but know I will never get mu money back right? Are you kidding me ? I love that truck! I will have to be pryed out of it when I die, which might me when DW finds the last repair bill. I guess I am just to stupid to know any better.

 

Sorry guys just realized I never got around to posting a profile here like I have on the other fourms. Me Bad. She is a 1990 4x4 heavy duty 3/4 ton SLE. TCD of course. Now with 90,000 clicks. AND A LOT OF NEW PARTS!

 

Hey no problem, ... look to the upper LHS of your screen for "User CP", ... there you can copy and paste your truck details into your "Signature" so not having to type it into every post. Oh and from your post it sounds like you're on the correct forum!

 

Yeah these trucks are something else. For example, my wife and I had just left the video store and are walking back to the truck when this young 20 something gal comes up and asks if that's my truck. The first though was "oh **** she hit my truck" or something, but it turned out she wanted to buy it, she kept gushing about how awesome the truck was and all that (the truck is missing half its paint at current). Talked to her for a bit and turns out her first gen was totalled by a woman in a VW rabbit. Anyway I told her I wasn't selling and we went our seperate ways, she even left a note for me in the front seat =p So that's my coolest first gen experience. In other news the last 2 feet of my tailpipe broke off on my drive home lastnight and spent some time dangling by the last exhaust hanger.

 

The owner of the motorcycle shop I was at last week wanted to buy mine. He was tired of towing stuff with a half ton. I said, "Sure, if the price is right".

My trucks got about 13 things wrong with it at the moment so I understand where you're coming from Subliminal. I don't drive mine everyday though.

 

ONLY 13?! Count yourself lucky John!

 

obviously a lie, how could a miserable little Rabbit total a 6,000# 1st gen???

 

I'm with this guy. I would take a bath if I tried to trade mine in. Might as well just keep it around, even if I do get something newer someday to replace it.

 

I gave up on new cars and motorcycles. I would rather dump $500 a month into my 89 Ramcharger than give it to the Big 3.

A little math shows me I'm better off, $500x12=6000, x say 3 years= $18,000. $18k in truck renewal is a lot of new. Now the law of averages tells me there is no way I will have to dump $500 every month, so I will have some cash should the crap in life happen. If you have a house it's never ending, if you don't, the wife will want one soon enough.

Plus, you can't beat the room in the truck, no emissions garbage, no college degree in electrical engineering required, insurance is cheaper too. If your worried about a back up, drop $2500 in a Jeep as a second car.

I restored and did the same with my motorcycles, at the end of the day all my toys are paid for in full. (I say this in example, not boast, I have a fully restored 1937 Indian Chief, a 2000 Indian Chief, a 2000 Ford Explorer, 97 Jeep Wrangler, 96 2500 Cummins and 89 Ramcharger Cummins) I owe no one a thing, nothing will stress your life like money, it will keep you up and ruin a marriage. (Married 23 years here...yes, to the same woman.)

It's nice to hold off on the part I "want" till next month so I can take the wife and kid out for a nice dinner if she having a bad week, or buy the kid that fancy calculator she needs for 7th grade algebra class that shes still using in her 3rd year of college. IMHO A man needs to take care of his family first in all things. Wants and needs are two very different things.

Yes it takes a lot on your part to work with it to get what you want, instant gratification is the new American way, but in the long run you and your family will be better off. Add a little more spending here, and a little more there and the next thing you know, you can't breathe, you and the wife never stop fighting and you can't stop sinking. Just look at the mess a lot of folks are in now with credit, good people, just over extended, and most of it could have been avoided. I learned very early in life to pay for what I want, if it's a big ticket item we wait, (living room furniture, bedroom suit, etc.) save and pay cash when we can pay in full. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

Well, at least by reading this thread, I don't feel so bad. Now if I can only keep my wife out of my receipts book, I'll be just fine..... or not.

 

Here is a pic of the FREE ($11,000)truck and the house we built (95%) done by DW and I. This was last winter about this time I think