Your towing rigs and trailers

[ultrarunner]

Good looking truck...

We have the opposite problem... bodies like new, vehicles run well, but the darn computer throws a code which can cost a bundle chasing or no tags for you.

I've got a 96 F150 4wd, long bed super cab with like new body AND bed... original paint, runs well... 5 spd with 300 six... darn check engine light comes and goes...

In California we have to pass smog from year model 1976 up... my vehicles are older than all the smog mechanics!

Often wondered if other States go back 40 years on emissions testing?

 

[Diamondpilot]

I have a 2005 Dodge 2500 Cummins with 120000 miles on it. Body totally shot from the winters in Ohio. I started looking for a different truck. Used diesels are priced unreal. I decided to fix mine. It runs great, pulls like a locomotive, and can get 20 mpg on the highway, hand calculated. I took the money I had for a down payment and got a 2009 bed, new rocker panels and cab corners, one front fender, and a rear bumper. Looks almost new, and I have no monthly payment. Just picked it up last Wednesday. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/trailers-transportation/424786-your-towing-rigs-trailers-forumrunner_20150513_165305-png"/> This is how far it was torn down. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/trailers-transportation/424784-your-towing-rigs-trailers-forumrunner_20150513_165114-png"/>

Rust is the enemy.

What did it end up costing total for the repairs with a paint job?

Chris

 

[RollingsFarms]

Thankfully we don't have rust here in the south like the north has it. What we do have a lot of is deer and sooner or later you're going to hit one or ones going to run into you. Insurance companies love to total older trucks like yours, turn around and sell them at some auction and someone puts a few thousand into the repairs the insurance company wouldn't do and they have a nice truck.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Thankfully we don't have rust here in the south like the north has it. What we do have a lot of is deer and sooner or later you're going to hit one or ones going to run into you. Insurance companies love to total older trucks like yours, turn around and sell them at some auction and someone puts a few thousand into the repairs the insurance company wouldn't do and they have a nice truck.

Guess you have never been to Indiana or Ohio? I've lived in both. You can't drive 5 miles without see a dead deer along the highway.

A deer did in my 99 F350 about 5 years ago. I hit one in my 03 Ram 2500 also and did about 5 grand in damages. Same for our 04 Mercury Mountaineer.

It was just as bad when I lived in Iowa.

Chris

 

[aeblank]

The truck prices these days make me *happy* to replace the water pump that's weeping in my 1995 Chevy.
That or get my 1948 Dodge restored. =)

 

[aeblank]

The truck prices these days make me *happy* to replace the water pump that's weeping in my 1995 Chevy.
That or get my 1948 Dodge restored. =)

 

[Lilypup]

I have a 2003 Dodge 2500 with the Hemi. Over 120,000 miles never been tuned up. Still gets the job done. Still has original battery and starts every time. Needs a little body work. Pulls a two horse Featherlite with ease.

 

[aeblank]

never been tuned up.

you should replace the spark plugs. The computer is making it all work, but the electrodes on those plugs must barely even exist. I bet your mileage jumps by a couple mpg.

We have a Charger, also with a Hemi. 16 plugs in that dang thing.........

 

[HHR]

I have a 2003 Dodge 2500 with the Hemi. Over 120,000 miles never been tuned up. Still gets the job done. Still has original battery and starts every time. Needs a little body work. Pulls a two horse Featherlite with ease.

You should be on your 4th set of plugs by now if you went by the factory 30K change interval. I've seen people push it, but 40-45K is about the limit on factory copper plugs in a Hemi.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

You should be on your 4th set of plugs by now if you went by the factory 30K change interval. I've seen people push it, but 40-45K is about the limit on factory copper plugs in a Hemi.

Not only that but not changing plugs makes the coil sticks work harder leading to premature failure.