I use it to get back and forth to work, when Ma Nature is throwing a hissy fit, which happens often in Oklahoma. That's all folks. As long as it does this, I do not care. Hell, there was a period of time where the thing wouldn't run without a gallon of 110 Sunoco being added to 93. Pinged really bad on 91 octane. Don't know why. This was back 16 years ago. Suddenly, that stopped with me doing nothing to fix it, and it runs great now on 88 no corn. Two weeks ago, I changed the fuel filter for the first time in probably 10 years. Boy, that woke it up big time.
I've owned this truck since new in 98. I know how well it ran then. I know right now, it is running as well, if not better than it did then. No muffler in the exhaust. Big giant stainless steel mesh cone filter on a full three inch polished intake tube. JET tuning chip on the ECU. Also have a container under the hood I keep full of E85. There are two hose barbs in said container, one at the bottom, one at the top. The bottom one is hooked to the intake tube by the MAF (metered air). The top one is hooked to the old EVAP vacuum port. When the truck runs, the fluid in the bottle bubbles furiously. The vacuum port inhales the vapors of the bubbling fluid. I had to tune down the idle screw on the bigger than stock TB due to this. It raised the idle speed over 200 rpm. Starts on the first turn of the key every single time.
Recently changed the plugs, wires and coils. Plugs looked excellent after ten years in the thing. Looked like they could do another ten years standing on their heads.
As Alfred E. Neuman says, "What, me worry!"
