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If you get in a wreck, the other guys insurance company will use it as leverage against you. And your insurance company may void your policy. If you can live with that I guess that is up to you. And they do make campers for smaller trucks if you have to have a Tundra. Mine was built for...

No, not really. Especially if you factor in the 55mph national speed limit at the time they were built. Mine has double the OEM power but with a rebuilt suspension it rides very well at speed. Noise is very tolerable, with OEM tires and exhaust it would be better yet. For as beat as the stock...

The curb weight on our pending 4dr black diamond is within a couple hundred pounds of my scab 4wd F-150. Cast iron block V8 and all. They are not light. There is a list of stuff Ford won't sell you if you get a squatch over gvw comcerns up to and including paint protection film.

Not everybody should so I won't say everybody should... but I enjoy doing my own work. I don't do alignments or bend exhaust because I don't have the tools. Everything else is fair game. I probably know more about my truck than most techs do, one of the joys of an older rig.

My wife has a new Bronco on order... IMO they are OK at best. Payload/towing/mpg/range are almost laughable and sadly it is hobbled by trying to make a 202x vehicle look like a 1960's car. I say sadly because I love old stuff but in this case it just came out sideways and is hard to see out of...

My old 4G63T Eclipse was supposed to get one every 60k...it was sudden death if it broke. Everything I have uses chains... which I guess I kinda prefer.

Not sure about the V8's manifold cracking but a cracked exhaust manifold is rarely a total shutdown issue with other engines. Annoying but usually they more or less self seal when they get hot. Timing belts have a lifespan and generally have a service interval. Stay well within that and you...

Or in the rural US with mediocre unpaved roads and heavy towing. Most roads in the midwest are not paved. Like many in my area the road that I live on is not paved. Most farm trucks are not pavement pounders that never tow anything. I can picture horrible conditions overseas and we ain't...

500,000km is only like 300,000 miles, not really that special. Might be getting a little crusty around here from road salt that the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with but aside from EPA mandated shenanigans on the newer diesels maintence isn't a big deal.

Totally unscientific but I wonder if dealer support and local knowledge has anything to do with it. If nobody knows how to work on them and parts are a slow boatride away... confidence in a vehicle will tank. Kind of like how for vast expanses of the US a 'cruiser is about as common as a...

Its everything. Sadly even if Webasto wasn't eating erasers in the corner of the room everything is jacked up on multiple levels.

They were unveiled a year ago. Production started this past summer and due to supplier delays/issues not many have been built.

I loved it. I have read that since they are not very well insulated they can struggle to hold heat in the wind (they are basically just a tin box). Obviously in our camper there isn't much wind. Camper stove running flat out got it up to 300 which is close enough to cook tube cinnamon rolls...

My parents 02 Explorer needed them at 150k. 3k mile oil changes and the whole bit. Knocking on wood my wife's 3.5 is running great at 270k. In a truck stetting changing the water pump every so often wouldn't be a big deal. Otherwise I would actively avoid a 4.0 sohc.

On the earlier ones the engine tells you when it is time, not the book. IMO it was a bandaid that shouldn't have happened to an old engine. Shoulda just canned the 4.0 OHV for the 3.5 Duratec and moved on.

That is a third gen. Once you get past the rube Goldberg timing chains the sohc is a good engine. I have never got past them, moms 02 Explorer had the same deal.

No not that way. It seems everybody has to hype up how much bigger the 19+ is compared to the older ones. Even Ford. And the media likes to blather that a 19+ Ranger is a new old F-150 for size. And IMO... it ain't. Maybe it is an attempt to help justify the maverick, I don't know. It...

Time for breakfast! Kinda cold outside and you can't beat the smell of baking cinnamon rolls so I throw my new oven on the stove and whip up a batch. As good as any other tube cinnamon roll I have ever had! All packed up and ready to make the voyage back home (4 miles)

Saturday morning she had to go to work and I had to run errands in town so we cut out early and came back at around 5. Hobos for supper! They went for a walk while I cooked. Then he put himself in time out... Supper was excellent, just hamburger corn, sliced potatoes and butter...