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Re: Does your truck fight you every step of the way?
Ah, You guys just said all that to make me feel better.
sometimes I wonder why I keep convincing myself that driving a 38 year old truck is better than driving something a lot newer.
The good parts are that It is all the Truck truck that I need. It wall haul or tow anything I want to. I have less tied up in in it than the repair bills that some of my coworkers pay on their late model trucks for somewhat simple repairs. The only work on the truck I can't do myself is due to not having the proper equipment to do the job.
The bad part, The front end needs a complete rebuild.
The front half of the driveshaft needs to be replaced. It has 54 holes drilled in the body that I don't need and need to weld up. Most of those are in the tops of the bed rails. For a while it was crapping out and quitting me on a regular basis but lately it seems to want to get the job done. It does get driven 50 miles a day minimum five days a week and has done a number of out of town three and four hundred mile trips in the past six months.
We do tend to forget the age of these trucks and the fact that if we use them they will need repairs and maintenance and if we don't use them regularly they will probably need more repairs and maintenance.
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