Slowwwly but Surely
#21
11-14-2007, 08:13 AM
#22
11-14-2007, 08:58 AM
Calculate the money in fuel you would save w/ a 7 mpg truck vs a 6 mpg truck. How many miles would it take you to pay the additional costs of buying the 7 mph truck? After you paid the difference it would continue to make you more money than the first. However, if you are seriously into doing a retro thing, this wouldn't apply of course.
#24
11-14-2007, 09:25 AM
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Congts...when I was buying I did a lot of pricing in March, and you paid very close to auction prices I saw....just curious tho, wouldnt you say you are close to a rebuild time?....if not whats your oild pressure reading, do you use any oil, and whats an oil analysis tell you if your not going to rebuild it soon?
#25
11-14-2007, 10:03 AM
Originally Posted by pepe4158
Congts...when I was buying I did a lot of pricing in March, and you paid very close to auction prices I saw....just curious tho, wouldnt you say you are close to a rebuild time?....if not whats your oild pressure reading, do you use any oil, and whats an oil analysis tell you if your not going to rebuild it soon?
It was overhauled at 500k,1 million, and 1.3 million. Rods and mains were done last year. Oil analysis was normal. I'll let ya know on the oil pressure, I haven't driven it enough to know it without looking.
#26
11-14-2007, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by RostyC
Originally Posted by pepe4158
Congts...when I was buying I did a lot of pricing in March, and you paid very close to auction prices I saw....just curious tho, wouldnt you say you are close to a rebuild time?....if not whats your oild pressure reading, do you use any oil, and whats an oil analysis tell you if your not going to rebuild it soon?
It was overhauled at 500k,1 million, and 1.3 million. Rods and mains were done last year. Oil analysis was normal. I'll let ya know on the oil pressure, I haven't driven it enough to know it without looking.
#27
11-15-2007, 01:49 PM
Originally Posted by Sonny Pruitt
If you stay local a 24 year old truck will make it
because you can always go home if something breaks but remember that are parts on the truck that no one can see are worn out or already broken 1.2 is a lot of miles and the phrase "in frame" ...............well you get the idea it may be in "great shape" but its an old truck and you have many hand grenades with their pin pulled on an old truck you have to crawl under and look around constantlly ( on one of my trucks I just stopped looking so I would not have to fix anything) and you will be constantly replacing stuff doghouse note well too you find out that all this $$$ put into the truck does not increase the value you have to run it x more miles to "get your money back" which seems like a never ending cycle (no matter what you paid or put into it,what does the insurance co intend to pay you if is totaled?) it goes with the old truck territory I've been through it since 1978 They will know you by your first name at the Peterbilt dealer good luck and stop at the Church and put some Holy Water in the Radiator |
