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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Trucks are like politics <g>  We all have favorites and we all have severe 
dislikes!

We've owned Dodges, used Fords and owned General Motors.  Oh and an 
International.  My little truck, which we generally just use on the land to 
haul stuff around like wood, etc., is a Chevy 1/2 ton with 300,000 some 
miles on it.  Still going strong and probably will for another 300,000.  It 
has a gas engine.  It pulls pulls the boat with no problem even though the 
boat is longer than it is.  And will do so fully loaded (it and the boat 
both) up a hill in 3rd gear.

DH has a GMC Jimmy 4x4 which we usually use to pull the boat when we head 
out to the coast to fish or over to the lakes to fish.  It's got well over 
200,000 miles on it.  No problems.  It's a left over from his "boys and 
their toys" days and spends most of its time parked.

However, the Suburban is a diesel and it is what we regularly use when we 
need something to drive.  A diesel is hardly broke in at 100,000 miles and 
there really isn't an equivalency when you say "high mileage" if you are 
thinking of what you'd say when you talk about a gas engine.  It has about 
300,000 miles on it.  It just keeps plugging along.  Up hill, down hill, 
summer, winter, hot, cold.  Doesn't make any difference.

If you can find an older "high mileage" diesel that's been well maintained, 
don't sweat the "high mileage" as far as the engine is concerned.  Just have 
the trany, drive train, etc. checked out.  The engine will outlast the 
truck! AND, an older vehicle won't have as much electronic junk on it that 
can cost you a blooming fortune to have repaired!

Lynda
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> If you were going to go out and buy a used truck, what would you buy?
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> Originally, we were going to use my sister's truck and trailer to move
> the horses and sheep, but her truck is sick. It's terminal, really,
> she's been neglecting it for years.  "Oil?" she says, quizically.
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> Anyway, I went out and bought a really nice little used bumper pull
> stock trailer, because I need to be able to move the animals around on
> my own up there.  My soccer mom wagon isn't going to hack it. Roy has
> cut me loose to truck hunt.
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> I am leaning towards a Dodge 2500 or Ford F250, diesel, so we can run
> biodiesel through it. 4WD.  I'd like to avoid high mileage. I'd like
> to spend under $8,500. Suggestions (other than praying to the Truck
> Gods?)
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