Posted on 10/12/2017 1:04:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ahh... okay. I think I see a picture emerging but it isn’t one you want to see if I’m reading this right.
What a shame, for those.... for those who want to see the Ford King Ranch line progress, from where I sit.
Would you care to shine more light on this or just leave it at that?
Honestly, I have no idea where the other guy intended to go with it, other than perhaps he is a rancher in competition with King Ranch or something. If so, can’t blame him for not wanting to drive around in a truck advertising his competition.
Otherwise, it doesn’t matter to most people, I don’t think. Of course, if you don’t want to do that there’s the Platinum trim level trucks that are almost as nice.
A clutch is $400.00. I am driving a Camry with the original clutch and it has 145K/miles on the odo.
Right and you aren’t getting the advertised mileage.
I hauled so many bricks one time in the back of my `83 Chevy C-10 `Custom Deluxe’ that the front tires almost came off the ground.
305 engine, short bed, AM/FM. I put a nice CD in a while back.
I’ve hauled tons of stuff countless times over the years. When it was new I thought I really had something because it had an auto. transmission. Still running strong.
I have a pretty good idea how real bikers must feel when they see CPA bean counters and legal eagle weekend warriors riding by on their Harleys, wearing their poser leather and Sons of Anarchy helmets.
And the Oakley shades, of course.
Real ranchers I know get a base model trim, 4x4, no carpet, flat bed and run the tar out of em.
Sorry, it was $860 complete.
Re: my comment a few back - I really haven't heard any bids under $750 recently and much more on a 4WD. The $400 would be only about $150 more than the parts.
Clutch life depends heavily on usage, of course. Shop that replaced my clutch said they had a job recently that was returned with slippage after a week. The owner went for a ride with the teenage driver and turned out she was half-slipping the clutch the entire time she was driving. My clutch lasted 31 years in mostly stop and go driving with very heavy trailer loads over the Cascade mountain passes back in the 90s. If you never pull loads and drive on the highway all the time the clutch can last practically forever.
I look on E-Bay now for "Frame Off Restorations", when I want another vehicle, and anything made after 1984 isn;t even considered.
My last computer mistake was a 1999 SHO, and it IS my LAST drivable computer mistake !
About three weeks ago, actually. Remember - I work for companies who run oil field trucks. I had to move an F-450 with a trailer full of pipe between job sites because nobody else had the requisite license and the regular driver had gone home sick.
The 99 SHO’s problem wasn’t the computer. The problem was the engine they didn’t design the cam drive system properly on. And the wiring tended to catch on fire due to ‘more earth friendly’ insulation. :P
Also - most non-computer trucks that don’t require a special license *can’t* legally tow 20K anyway.
I don’t blame you; I remember watching a girl vomit when we were on a camping trip because she was in the back seat of a stick in a traffic jam...
I wish I learned how to drive one (just for the experience), but I would never buy one living in the NYC metro area.
We’re Irish; nobody was going to fight the guys with crosses on their tanks and planes that were fighting the Soviet Union. They did fight the Japs, though.
The wife’s 06 mustang has an aluminum hood. No accident damage but needed to be Repainted 2 times.
Not interested
Aluminum hoods on Mustangs and other pony cars started in the 80s and before.
The repainting thing is more and more common on steel and plastic/fiberglas hoods as well - it’s due to the ‘eco-friendly’ paints makers are forced to make, not the substructure the paint is put on.
Supposedly they bead blast the hood, using steel beads, is supposed to be coated with a primer that prevents steel rust from the trace steel left behind. They failed at that quite a bit I have been told. The body shop who fixed it was supposed to use a similar priming agent. It didn’t work. Now it’s only a few months since the last painting. Let’s see what happens after 2-3 years.
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