Deal! They got a smoker at the Cummins plant? Errr, I mean one we can cook on?
HH - Dang! How many farms do you have!? You must put on a poop load of mileage in a year!
Uhhhh, I'm not sure some days... . mileage is not too bad. I usually only put about 20-25k on the '97... ... and the '03... ... . and about 3-5k on the '93... ... ... and 5-15k on the KW... ..... and another 5-15k on various other projects I've half-way got legal to run around on the road in..... mileage all depends on where I'm at, what's closest, what's broke on it, and how many flats are on it. :-laf Sometimes I drive whatever I come to that will start first... ... .
Truth be told, I've sold more this year than I ever have... . I've got so much farmland, now, I can't keep up with all of it. My hired hands are part-times, and since Peterbilt started hiring, I haven't seen much of them!!
I sold the '91, '95 5/8's ton gasser, 2 '92s, a '90, '95 gasser 4x4, '97 Super clean 3500 2x4, '04 3500 4x4 Quadcab, my trusty '96, and a '93. Most were just project trucks I bought super cheap to fix up and either play in or resale.
I bought the '91 3/4 Intercooled 4x4 for $3500, did a little work, fixed several oil leaks, some newer tires/wheels, and sold it for $4500+some lumber, pipe, and a programmer for an '03.
The '95 1/2 ton 4x4gasser's transmission was toast, so I found one in a wrecked truck for $200, put a lift on it, and started bashing on it for less then $2500, not counting tires. I ended up with a blown up truck, trashed cab, and I robbed the axles to go under the 1/2 ton, put a bigger lift, some 38's and lockers in it, and just sold it for $5000 + a '95 Gasser 3/4 4x4 cancered out, which I sold for $1500, + a '79 Chevy SB 4x4 with a BUILT 350, lift, 35s, and lots of cancer!! :-laf It has no brakes, which I found out as I unloaded it!! Cost me a battery charger!!
One '92 was a D350 ext-cab, clean, just needed a fuel and power steering leak fixed. Gave $2500, sold for $3500. Other '92 was a drunk's truck, I guess. Mashed pass door, driver door welded up several times and broke again, but had a new transmission. Gave $1200 for drivetrain, ended up w/whole truck when the pump quit, but had to drag it on a trailer with a winch. I drove it off, put a steel flatbed on it, and sold it for $3500.
The '90 was just a clean truck, D250 3pd auto, a friend needed money for, $2500. I'd helped him fix a few things on it, but it was pretty solid like it was. He was second owner, and it got great mileage!! Lots of miles, but I could tell he hated to sell it, and I told him if he wanted it back, I'd keep it for 90 days. I called him a few weeks later when I got it sold for $3800 and split the profit w/ him. He bought me a case of beer, too!! That's a good friend!!
The '97 was a friend's I had bought a few back. It was super-clean, 2x4 3500, 113k miles. He'd just had the A/C fixed at the dealer!! Only nick in it was the busted lower portion of the Pass fender, where he ran over a shovel!! And I've never been stuck so many times in my life!!!! That truck would get stuck on concrete if it rained!! I once got stuck in front of my apartment early in the morning, and woke all the neighbors up trying to get it out of the stinkin' grass!!! AUUUUGGGH!! I kept it a few months, and was gonna sell it when I found the '97 I have, but Dad wanted it, so I told him he could drive it all he wanted, but he was responsible for it. He jerked the duals and found a matching 3/4 bed and made a nice cruiser. We only put 20k on it in 9yrs!! Seems Dad got stuck a lot, too!?!?! I sold it to a friend who wanted a nice clean truck for $7k, along with the cancered '95 for a work truck.
The '93 I didn't want to sell. I gave $1300, as the alternator didn't work, and when I got it home, I never shut it off, I just got a good used regulator I had and when I plugged it in, the alternator pulled the engine down and started whining a little!!! It needed a rear main and U-joint, I thought, but then I found the clinking noise was the nut off the back of the transmission yoke!! Couldn't fall out of the yoke, and was running 'round loose in there!! New seal, some loctite, and it was fixed. The Driver door was about to fall off, so I cut a reinforcement bracket for that and pulled the panel, greased the window motor, and the more I drove the truck, the more I wanted to keep it for myself, especially when I calculated the first tank at 22mpg!!!
Then, as always, someone offered me some good money for it, and it was theirs.....
My '96 I've had since '99, w/89k miles. It was the only truck I had for a year or more. For a while, I hauled some RVs with it, all over the place, delivering. Then, I drove it back and forth, and had a beater on the ranches I drove off road..... it ended up being harder to keep those running than just one GOOD 4x4. And they never were up to the task. I'd be somewhere, and need my other truck. What a pain. But I just kept the '96 to drive when I went long trips or needed mileage..... and power.
The local boys knew when I'd been out in it, as they'd get complaints about a smokin' white truck, flyin' through traffic..... I never dyno'd her, but she'd build 55+lbs boost. Never had a Chevy or Ford even stay close. I sold it to one of my partners on some of the farming ops, and took all my crap off, like the HX40hybrid, marine injectors, BD intercooler and boots, custom aneroid valve, etc. We put a steel bed on it, and I took the '92 Drunk's truck back on trade, as I need the parts to finish my '85 CTD Crew SB.
The last one was an '04 4x4 3500 Quadcab I'd bought for $6k. I'd been servicing the truck the last 100+k, so it was pretty well taken care of, but it was missing on one for 25k. He ran it for a long time with a bad injector, and it washed the piston in #6. He couldn't afford $400, and it cost him. I was gonna fix it myself for a ranch truck, but one of my hands talked me out of it for $9k, and I didn't have to touch it. He piece-mealed it together and traded it in. He got $19,500 trade in on it, so he came out pretty good. He ended up with a lower mileage '08 6. 7 2500 4x4 Mega for less then $16k. Not bad.....
Uhh, wow! ^^^ Didn't realize I typed that much..... guess I like my trucks!!! :-laf I'll quit for now..... sorry...
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