trader007
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- May 22, 2010
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- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Transmission
- Automatic
1999
4.0 pushrod
XLT
281,000 miles
Black with rust. Holes in body big enough to reach your arm through.
Motor still runs good. The biggest work I did to the engine was the lower head gaskets. That was around 160k. Other than that, I have done a couple transmissions, all the ball joints, both front wheel hubs twice (doing them my third time this weekend), every single sensor on the god damn thing (around 200k i just got sick of weird issues), u joints, brakes all around like 4 times, like 6 sets of tires, fuel pump (only once! ) on and on... I do all my own work, so over the entire life of the truck I actually have spent only about $1000 a year on it (excluding gas and insurance of course)
Anyway after i do all 4 tie rod ends (2nd time) this weekend, what im most worried about is the rear end. I have new springs on it, and shackles, and the differential gear itself isnt too loose. But the clutch packs are gone, the wheels move sideways like 1/2 an inch, and i have never done the rear bearings either, but they do feel fine.
Does it make sense to work on the rear end? Should I rebuild my clutch packs? I don't care about posi traction, I think the truck drives better with a free wheeling diff... And I don't know at what point it is dangerous to ignore the rear end any longer because all i have ever done to it is the brakes (like 4 times) and changed the fluid once. It doesn't leak, and besides the loose clutch packs it works just fine.
I want to get this past 300k, and maybe another year after that. My goal is to wait until i can get like a 2012 f150 with 100k on it for $10k. I think thats a year probably 2 years from now.
And what I absolutely don't want is a breakdown. Only once in the 12 years I have owned this truck has it left me stranded, and im still pissed about that. i know the engine could go... theres no telling if the timing chain or the valves are on their last legs... but it still has compression and it runs literally perfect. have one bad o2 sensor that im going to replace... other than that, no engine codes.
4.0 pushrod
XLT
281,000 miles
Black with rust. Holes in body big enough to reach your arm through.
Motor still runs good. The biggest work I did to the engine was the lower head gaskets. That was around 160k. Other than that, I have done a couple transmissions, all the ball joints, both front wheel hubs twice (doing them my third time this weekend), every single sensor on the god damn thing (around 200k i just got sick of weird issues), u joints, brakes all around like 4 times, like 6 sets of tires, fuel pump (only once! ) on and on... I do all my own work, so over the entire life of the truck I actually have spent only about $1000 a year on it (excluding gas and insurance of course)
Anyway after i do all 4 tie rod ends (2nd time) this weekend, what im most worried about is the rear end. I have new springs on it, and shackles, and the differential gear itself isnt too loose. But the clutch packs are gone, the wheels move sideways like 1/2 an inch, and i have never done the rear bearings either, but they do feel fine.
Does it make sense to work on the rear end? Should I rebuild my clutch packs? I don't care about posi traction, I think the truck drives better with a free wheeling diff... And I don't know at what point it is dangerous to ignore the rear end any longer because all i have ever done to it is the brakes (like 4 times) and changed the fluid once. It doesn't leak, and besides the loose clutch packs it works just fine.
I want to get this past 300k, and maybe another year after that. My goal is to wait until i can get like a 2012 f150 with 100k on it for $10k. I think thats a year probably 2 years from now.
And what I absolutely don't want is a breakdown. Only once in the 12 years I have owned this truck has it left me stranded, and im still pissed about that. i know the engine could go... theres no telling if the timing chain or the valves are on their last legs... but it still has compression and it runs literally perfect. have one bad o2 sensor that im going to replace... other than that, no engine codes.