Forced truck upgrade.

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On wednesday I was hit on the free way on my way to work.   Long story short guy came over 2 lanes hit me right where my cab and bed met.   Idaho state troopers witnessed the wreck and cited the guy with 4 violations including reckless driving.   Needless to say my 90 f250 xlt is toast.   I had it just under 5 years and put 218k miles on it.   It was just a good old solid truck.  Not much to look at and definitely  well used( by me lol)   never planed on buying a 30 year old gas truck when I bought it, but when I found a 1 owner truck with 67k miles on it and i only padded 1800 for it.   What can I say, I just counted hundreds.   It was i need a truck right now moment after I had sold my construction  company and all the trucks that went with it.  Well,Thursday I had another I need a truck right now moment and just like the last time I got lucky.



2000 f350 xlt lariat  crew cab 4wd long bed diesel. Ypu can tell some old guy owned it,  it still had the factory combo cassette
cd player. 2 owner truck only the 1st one only owned it for 3 months...   155009  on the clock when I bought it.   Had to drive 300 miles each way( the way back was a blizzard and had the road closed )  I  miss the old 7.3   not a power house like today's trucks, but they are an easy 4-500k+ motor if you take care of them.  Which in all honestly  is what I care about.   I don't need the latest and greatest, I always drove my personal vehicles into the ground.  Besides having delt with all the emissions crap on my work trucks, they completely  destroy the entire purpose for owning a diesel.  They remove durability and fuel mileage.   There is a reason why just about everyone removes all the stuff after the warranty  is out.

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Looks good

I hope you didn’t suffer any injuries and aren’t too sore.

[Big Frank]

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What he said.

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Banged my elbow up a bit.  Didn't realize it until 2 days after when I tried to install some bolts and nuts on a water fitting.   Just simply spinning the nut down by hand cuased a sharp pain.   I am having a mri on monday.

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Can't find many deals like that here in the southeast. Folks think junk is made of gold.

Hope everything goes good on the MRI and the pain heals quickly.
Arnica Gel helps with both pain and bruising.....works fast. I use it on shoulders and hip.

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Can't find many deals like that here in the southeast. Folks think junk is made of gold.

Hope everything goes good on the MRI and the pain heals quickly.
Arnica Gel helps with both pain and bruising.....works fast. I use it on shoulders and hip.

i had to drive 5 hours 1 way to get the deal.   no bs the trucks locally are 5-10k more with 100k more miles locally.

[Big Frank]

That's pretty bad. When I bought my Yukon, I really wanted a Chevy Tahoe. The nearest one I could find was a 45 minute drive away and $1,000 over blue book. So I got the Yukon Denali from a dealer2 1/2 miles straight down the road, and I didn't over pay for it. I'm paying for it in Premium gas and 13 MPG, but I hardly ever go anywhere. Kroger is a mile away, The hospital, Walgreens, and some doctors are a mile away. And my other doctors are 3 miles away, +/- .2 miles. So even when I go somewhere it's only enough to get it warmed up. Living in the city sucks, but having nearly everything within a mile or three is nice. Meijer is 6 miles away and that's usually the farthest I go to the store, unless I drive to Grand Blanc, which still isn't far. If I need to go to the credit union there, I usually stop at one or two stores on the way home.

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I drive ALOT!   in just under 5 years I put 218k on my last truck.   I am trying to retire again.   If that's the case it will be way less.  Like sub 10k a year.   I just have to have a full size truck.   Between the house I am going to build in wy "soon" on 184 arces.   To my hobbies that often  require me to carry very heavy things.   A 3/4 ton or better just makes sense.

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My elbow got worse.  went back to the doc.   it was a real struggle keeping the misses from coming.   (her being an orthopedic surgeon and all)  I know she cares, but every time she comes with me to this type of appointment it always goes to full on dr speak between them and i have no clue whats going on.   Its like I am the damn patient here, tell me what the hell is going on.  Anyways MRI monday morning.


I am now have just under 1000 miles on the truck.   it has a few minor things to fix, like one of the power door locks actuator is bad.  Which is a easy fix, just have to have time to due it.    I already spent 250 on weather tech floor mats, 800 on seat covers, 400 on a new brake controller and 350 on a  B&w hitch,   the stock one was fine, but i would rather have one rated for 16k than 10k    not like i am going to be towing 16, but i would rather have something i know can handle what ever i throw at it, vs not.

I could go bigger if I wanted too, but most of the bigger one either require you too get rid of your spare or take your bumper off to do the install... no thanks.

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Getting rid of the the spare isn't an option for me. If I had a truck with dual wheels and didn't haul a lot of weight most of the time, it might be. Having been rear-ended while stopped a few times, there's no way I would get rid of my bumper. I don't know anything about B&W but I took a look at their adjustable ball mounts and like what I saw. The last ball mount I bought was supposed to be 2" more drop than the one I had before it, but there was only 1" difference, and it wasn't quite enough. That was 2 different brands that measure their mounts differently.