bobbywalter
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- Joined
- Aug 9, 2007
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- Location
- woodhaven mi
- Vehicle Year
- 1988
- Make / Model
- FORD mostly
- Engine Type
- V8
- Engine Size
- BIGGER
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- Total Lift
- sawzall?
- Tire Size
- 33-44
- My credo
- it is easier to fix and understand than "her"
For $65-75k the Caddy doesn't do me much good... and they are friggin ugly too.
As I was sitting in a rest area last night with a limping horse (F-150) I was:
Glad I had:
1. My tuner/code scanner
2. A smartphone to look up codes
3. A flashlight to find the injector to unplug so I could limp it home on 7 without melting down the cats (coil pack died)
And wishing I had:
1. My Ranger so it would be four screws and two connectors on the fender skirt and throw in my $20 spare coil for all 8 cylinders I keep behind the seat without burning the &*@! out of my hand on the thermostat.
I just changed the intake gaskets on the thing over the weekend (easier to change head gaskets on the V8 Ranger BTW) and must have upset the natural order of things... so now I have one new $54 coil on the counter and wondering how many more of other 7 are going to get upset too.
Power and all that is nice, but it is nice to have simple too. And my '02 is a dinosaur compared to a newer truck for simplicity.
yes....i can see it. at first all of the other coils will make fun of the new coil.... then secretly realize they are not doing so well themselves....thats when you will really be pissed.. of course only when its cold as fawk and blowing like a banshee out will they fail one lemming at a time.
i really like the mechanical diesels for the same reason you like the 302, although the eec4 302 i would prefer over a 4bbl.....
and like you say the v8 is easier to pop headgaskets on for most....especially the setups i prefer. my truck is cake to work on verse a oem one, especially a cammer.
i like the looks of the cadillacs though...and 60 g seems like a fair price for one of those beasts off the lot and new. 60-80 k for a pickup with no true off road prowess upscale of a powerwagon is not.
but thats all in the eye of the beholder right?
my biggest bitch, like Will stated, is a no nonsense truck offering with a diesel pulling 25 plus mpg and 230 hp and say 430 ft pounds or so that is 30 k and 4x4. well i guess the ram ecodiesel and the new nissan will fill the gap within reason....but to not offer it the last 15 years, then pull the rangers out on top of that is a blatant kick in the nads from ford.
and why the old days always seem to look so good and spark justified rants like this thread to one degree or another.