500,000 mile club?

[GECCO]

Just curious who has reached the 1/2 million mile mark with their Dodge/Cummins. What year is your truck, your mileage to date, type of use and have you had to do any major repairs?



Thanks!

 

[dtboyer]

My '03 2500 (aka "The Duke") has only 37,000 miles. However, I also own a '94 Mazda B3000 ("Little Mikey") which has 552,679 miles as of today. (It will go over 552,000 tomorrow. ) Mikey still runs fine. He has only two problems which I'm content to live with for now. First, there is a small amount of engine oil leaking into the cooling system and, second, there is small leak where the left exhaust manifold mounts to the head. I know this sounds like cyberspace BS, but I assure you its true-- and I can prove it. The most amazing fact to me is that the heads have never been off! When "Mikey" achieved 500,000 miles last year, I wrote a three page letter to Mazda describing my experience with the vehicle-- they really didn't care. I'm amazed, but I guess Mazda thinks all of their products produce this kind of result.

 

[COBRAJET]

Your Mazda is a rebadged Ford with an old school OHV V6. My brother had the exact same year truck with a 5 speed that went well over 200K before he traded it off. It was always around 23-24mpg and reliable.



We had a 2WD 91 Cummins with a 5 speed in the family up to about 440K miles. It did okay... lots of front end work and parked over a pan since it leaked oil from every seal. The fuel plate was "adjusted" at one time for a little more power. The truck could get 25mpg pretty easy with light footed Dad tooling around in it. Solid but archaic at best.

 

[dtboyer]

You are correct sir. My Mazda was built in the (former) Ford plant in Linden, NJ. (It's been demolished- the Ford plant that is. ) Mine is also 2WD with a 5 speed. I use it to earn "retirement" $. So far I've been able to purchase the "Duke" ( my '03 2500 CTD 5 speed) a JD 4400 with loader and backhoe, a JD X595 SE, and a Fairmont MT 14 L2 speeder car. If you aren't familiar with speeder cars, Google NARCOA on the web.

 

[fozzy]

I do not own it but my dad has a 1989 CTD that he bought new in 89 that had less than 200 HP I think. He had the first Cummins in town and our whole family was made fun of for driving a Dodge. He has keep it in the construction fleet and it has over 600,000 miles on it. Still runs, body is barely their. It has had several overheads, two or three fuel pumps and two turbos that I know of. He put bigger injectors in it at about 300,000 because the old ones where shot. Nothing inside the motor to date. Still starts first mili-second you turn the key, nothing like the new ones that take two or three cranks to fire. He has changed the oil every 5,000 miles with Delo 400.



He also has a 2003 that has 300,000 on it with out anything but the Delo oil changes (not counting the electric fuel pump that goes out all the time. )