Million mile pickup

• Million mile pickup

High hopes? we will see.

Randy

At the junkyard, an original owner of a 94 jeep cherokee came in rattling and barely running. The odometer said 277,500 miles, and he said he's took great care of the car with 3000 mile oil changes. It's quite obvious that it was taken care of, because the engine bay was kept clean and so was the interior. I know exactly what the problem was, as the oil pressure read zero and 3 or 4 psi at 3k rpm's. The autospy showed that there was a lack of compression.

My of my family's cars never made it over 200,000 miles. A friend's 1991 chevy pickup required an engine overhaul at 155,000.

I'm not saying that this story is a JOKE - rather, I AM saying that a vehicle with THAT many miles takes a considerable amount of work to keep it going - not just 4 radiators and 5 water pumps. We're talking everything.

A 1997 E250 with 5.4 V8 gas. Neither the engine or the transmission has ever been overhauled. He got 500,000 miles out of the serpentine belt.

That's amazing considering all the head gasket issues the ealy 5.4s had.

"His maintenance secrets for getting a million miles from his van would make most automotive engineers and mechanics cringe: He changes his oil every 10,000 miles, but one time drove it 55,000 miles before an oil change. He adds a quart of oil with every other fill-up, however."

"Though automobiles with 1 million miles are rare, they're not unheard of. A 1966 Volvo owned by a New York man has more than 2 million miles on it, but that car doesn't regularly haul 3,000 pounds of auto parts halfway across the United States, as Mr. Schell's van does."

A pickup is another story. This one seems to have spent a lot of time onthe highway that no doubt helped it immensley. There's nothing worse for any engine that stop and go driving and not getting warm. I'd almost bet that this particular one was a 350 gasser too... I don't know of too many of those diesels that didn't snap their cranks off let alone go that distance.

Rod

Glenn

After he got a million on the truck, He went and bought a different one, and it only had 550000 miles on it before the transmission quit, so he was not real happy. A lot of it has to do with the driver. I never saw him gun the engine, and he is never agressive on the road. He tells everybody his blood pressure is lowest while driving the truck. This country could use a lot more drivers like him.

I have pictures of the odometer, and the truck but dont know how to post them.

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PS: You need your pictures on My Documents.

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