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Originally posted by lietuviai
Tom, I didn't know all the details before, you don't need to get a bigger truck. Your dad's 3/4 ton 4X4 truck with the 454 is plenty to do most anything you'll probably ever need to do with a truck. You can easily haul a ton of whatever in the bed and tow 5 times that. At 59K miles its not even broken in. With proper maintenance a 454 will last as long as any F**d or Dodge diesel because it doesn't have to work so hard to do the same job. Its already lasted longer than those 6.2/6.5 diesels.
I'm sure your dad took good care of that truck. You know its history. Don't do something you'll regret. Why are trucks for sale? Because 9 times out of 10 there's something wrong with it.
Keep the truck!
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Yes, I know this truck is a good hauler, I've towed with it, problem is, it's WAY too long. We never drive it because it takes two blocks to turn it around. Extended cab AND longbed make for a truck that's too long to take hunting where we go, too long to take to the store and park ANYWHERE in Boulder. Uses too much gas (though it gets an honest 14.5 on the hiway towing a Mercedes behind it) and is just not a pleasure to drive at all.
Another thing, I want to go to diesel so I can use homebrew biodiesel in it and store fuel at the house in large qty's (as in SVO/WVO/BioD)
Can't do that with this truck. It'll just sit and fall apart or rust away here with 59k on it. Would rather it go to someone working oil fields or a farm where there's plenty of room to turn it around.
Your point isn't lost on me though, I too, have a feeling I'm trading a known-good, solid truck off for someone else's problem truck. If nothing else, I'll sell this to someone who can and will get some use out of it though, just can't see it rotting away in our front yard. It's been driven about 28 miles in the last 6 months. It'll fall apart from de-composition at that rate.