I had a '91....which saw MANY 1/4 miles runs, many off road trips...and
plenty of power shifts...and i got 256,500 miles out of mine. And it was
stick. I replaced nothing major...just the norm.... oh ya..only a V6, but a
potent V6.... Take what you what from it...
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Dakota Dodge
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http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/XgAJPmbQu2jpA/profile.htm
Truck Home Page: http://www.dakota2.4mg.com
>From: "Will Coughlin" <willcoughlin@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: DML: AHHH!,I finally got on my truck a little!
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:49:10 -0600
>
>Well people,My best friend came over today,and he hadn't seen my truck in a
>while.He asked me if he could see it,so I took the cover off of it.He asked
>if he could hear it since I got my exhaust dumped,so I somewhat unwillingly
>cranked it up.He asked if we could go for a ride,so I let it warm up for
>several minutes and we went for a little ride.He has always begged me to
>get
>on my truck at least once,just so he could feel how fast it was(remember he
>had a '92 and a '97 318 truck).So I found a clear side road and I stopped.I
>took of in first and wound it to about 3700,then barked the hell out of a
>secind and wound it to about 3900.At that point, I figured I had done
>enough
>abuse and I took it home and put it back under the cover.Do ya'll think I
>hurt anything by doing this? I hope not! I am now kind of worried about the
>long-term durability of my motor.How many of ya'll have seen 100,000+ out
>of
>a motor that you are hard on,or race?
>
>Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
>'00 reg.cab,2wd,4.7L/hd5-spd/3.92sg(9.25")
>http://www.geocities.com/willcoughlin/index.html
>
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