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This would be the golden Explorer or did you take up trucking over the holiday?
The exploder. 300,000 miles plus.
Gotta hand it to ya Og, that is amazing. 300k on Detroit iron? Well, color me impressed…
How many years did it take you to get to 300K on the Exploder?
I’ve got an XTerra I drive about 30% of available days, because I’m traveling and in a rental car the rest of the time.
It’s got 81K, in 27 months. I’m hoping it’ll have the grapes to go the distance the Exploder’s done.
Og, my F150 rolled up 307k last week. Still going strong. Uses a little oil, about 1 quart over 1500 miles but other than that no major trouble.
Do you think the new “modular engines” will last as long? They say if you have any trouble with one the only fix is another engine.
I do about 600 miles a week. Often more, rarely less. A mod is just a regular engine made in the regular way, Shooter. THe deal behind the mods is that they are designed in such a way that changing an assembly line to use one or the other is incredibly easy. They still have blocks, cams, cranks, pistons, etc. They are assembled in a very ordinary way and run in an ordinary manner. If you have a v6 in your F150, it’s already a modular engine. if you have the 5.0 dinosaur that mine does, you just don’t get very good gas mileage.
Doubletrouble,
300k on Detroit iron isn’t hard, it’s just unusual.
In fact, 300k on damn near anything is unusual.
Too many people see an expensive repair as an excuse to throw it away and go get something new.
Og’s done the work to fix it, and fix it again, and, as the generation who lived through the Great Depression said, “Use it up, wear it out, make it work, or do without”.
Over time, repairs are usually cheaper than payments – especially if, like Og, you can do them yourself. They’re just not as “easy”.
Congrats on the milestone, Og! Glad it wasn’t a kidneystone :)
My truck’s still a baby, at 112K.
Very Cool! I’m impressed, but not surprised – especially after the blow-by-blow account of The Timing Sensor Incident. You demonstrated the knowledge and skill that it takes to keep a machine running. I want to see your Explorer top 500,000 without rebuilding the engine and I’m going to stay right here until it happens.