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I love/hate my truck....

Lwrs10

Lwrs10

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I have a 2002 S-10 with the 4.3, automatic, lowered, and supercharged. Its my speaker hauling vehicle.

But dammit I just passed 100k and all type of **** is breaking.


Last week I had to replace the heater core......got it done.....12 hours later. Had to remove the dash...

A couple of months ago I had to replace all of the injectors. Not so much the trucks fault as the damn ethanol they are making us use...



Today I rebuilt the front end. It was not driving right and making lots of noises. It would change lanes by itself. So, 4 ball joints, 2 tie rod ends, an idler arm, and lowering it some more it rides great now.

I know its the nature of the game with these trucks and passing 100k. And with it being lowered is even harder on the suspension.

But dammit it needs to let my pocketbook fill back up before something else goes wrong.....
 
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Celt said:
I traded my '95 S-10 LS off last year. I loved the damn thing, but don't miss it a bit.
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I really like the S series trucks. This is my 5th one. Its a shame they stopped making them. I will drive this one until it quits...then shoehorn a LS1 V8 into it and drive it until it quits again.
 
lwrs10 said:
I know its the nature of the game with these trucks and passing 100k. And with it being lowered is even harder on the suspension.
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That pretty much sums it up !

But dammit it needs to let my pocketbook fill back up before something else goes wrong.....
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any vehicle with that much mileage or more, one needs to be mindfull of expenses, once you put six months of car payments or more into the thing in less that a year, time to say adios !

FWIW, S-10 front ends are pathetic to begin with.
 
twitch54 said:
That pretty much sums it up !



any vehicle with that much mileage or more, one needs to be mindfull of expenses, once you put six months of car payments or more into the thing in less that a year, time to say adios !

FWIW, S-10 front ends are pathetic to begin with.
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I agree....its a 1960's design. But.....its very cheap to fix....
 
bentpencil said:
Maybe the first four were trying to tell you something.......:scratch2:
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The first 4 were sold due to overseas tour, joining the air force, traded one in for my cobra, and the other one was traded for a 5.0 mustang.

Those trucks never did break on me.
 
Tarl Of Gor said:
I have a 2002 F150 that has 109K on it and I just changed the oil and filter. Damn Fords.
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Yeah, I just had to replace the radiator and a rotted brake line on my 1994 Chev. POS...

OTOH, hitting two or three deer over the course of the years probably didn't help the radiator from eventually cracking. It wasn't replaced in any of the deer strikes, despite the A/C condensor being banana shaped.

I think I may have replaced the alternator and the starter too. 'Course, I have about 400 watts of auxiliary lighting on it. Still though, that's a lot of work for 220k miles.
 
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if you buy quality parts and do the work yourself it will last forever and be less then payments. From my vast experience of owning vehicles with over 100k for the last 20 years brakes, rubber, alternator, starter, plugs caps and roter and a radiator and heater core, tranny filter your good for another 100k
 
1989 Tonka Truck

My little toy truck is doing what I want it to do ... Really, who could ask for anything more?

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79k original miles. Sat in a barn for years. I have fun pulling up next to one of them big four door stretch limos with beds and yelling "My truck wants to grow up to be just like yours!"
 
whoaru99 said:
I'm missing the point of that. :scratch2: Care to elaborate?
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I'll try to interpret that. Years ago when you bought a truck you got a cab that seated 3 with an 8 foot bed you could haul full sheets of plywood in. Trucks were trucks and cars were cars.

Now it seems most trucks are 4 passenger supercabs and a little dinky 6 foot box all encased in a large mass of sheet metal. It is like the box is an afterthought. They are like very large cars with a box instead of a trunk.

Regular cab trucks are hard to find. I've got my eye out for one to replace my '78 F150 which is starting to rust pretty bad.

How did I do sKiZo?
 
rswojo said:
I'll try to interpret that. Years ago when you bought a truck you got a cab that seated 3 with an 8 foot bed you could haul full sheets of plywood in. Trucks were trucks and cars were cars.

Now it seems most trucks are 4 passenger supercabs and a little dinky 6 foot box all encased in a large mass of sheet metal. It is like the box is an afterthought. They are like very large cars with a box instead of a trunk.

Regular cab trucks are hard to find. I've got my eye out for one to replace my '78 F150 which is starting to rust pretty bad.

How did I do sKiZo?
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A++

Be interesting to find out how many people actually do truckish things with theirs? Was in the lumber yard a while back and some lady was yelling at the dude loading up a couple bags of gravel mix for scratching the bed. Jeez Louise ... he says he gets that a lot. Maybe save some grief and start bubble wrapping everything first.

** Last real truck I had was a 3/4 ton '68 GMC ... now THAT was a truck!
 
sKiZo said:
A++

Be interesting to find out how many people actually do truckish things with theirs?
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I don't drive my truck unless I'm doing truck-ish things with it. The car gets far better fuel economy for every day running around stuff.
 
I have a 77 Chevy 3/4 ton camper special, 350/4 spd. 4:10 gears that has 552,000 miles on it. It's had one repaint and is on it's third motor but the trans and rear diff are original factory stock. About all it gets used for now is trips to the lumberyard and hauling firewood home from down the mountains around here. It gets 13.5 MPG.s empty or with 2500 lbs in the back, it don't matter. It's got it's fair share of rust and dents but I love the old green monster and I doubt I'd trade it for any new computer controlled POS that's on the market now days. I should be able to get at least another 70,000 miles out of the current motor if the body doesn't rust off the frame first.:D

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I love my S-10!

I've had it for 22 years, since new. Fortunately for me, it only has about 40K miles on it. It gets used only as a truck, but with a bed-liner, it doesn't get scratched up!


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55Redneck said:
I have a 77 Chevy 3/4 ton camper special, 350/4 spd. 4:10 gears that has 552,000 miles on it. It's had one repaint and is on it's third motor but the trans and rear diff are original factory stock. About all it gets used for now is trips to the lumberyard and hauling firewood home from down the mountains around here. It gets 13.5 MPG.s empty or with 2500 lbs in the back, it don't matter. It's got it's fair share of rust and dents but I love the old green monster and I doubt I'd trade it for any new computer controlled POS that's on the market now days. I should be able to get at least another 70,000 miles out of the current motor if the body doesn't rust off the frame first.:D

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Hey, nice picture of the cat. Nice truck too. I feel the same way about my '78 F150. It plows snow, hauls loads and pulls my boat to and from the lake. Gets about 15mpg empty or loaded, makes no difference. It costs almost as much for 6 months of insurance as it costs for the gas to do what it does for me. I can work on it myself although I haven't had many problems lately, knock on wood.

Nice vent windows too.
 
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