I'll tell you what the worst truck is I've ever owned. My 1969 Dodge Power Wagon. I still use it and bought it around 1975. By 1979, both front doors starting falling off. I finally welded then on and used to climb through the window (like Dukes of Hazzard). 318 HD low-compression V8 with 4.88 axle ratios. I used to commute 50 miles a day and it got a best of 8 MPG. I have replaced just about every moving part on the truck at least twice. Even cut it in half and replaced the rear frame. Everything on this truck was crude and low-quality. The Dana 44 front axle has brass bearing cones for ball-joints that constantly wore out. The driveshaft U-joints are held in by tiny little straps and 1/4" bolts. This truck had manual steering and as I recall, power was not even an option. Sometime in the late 1980s, a State trooper crashed into me at a very high speed and knocked the entire cab off the truck with me in it. That led me to replace the cab. I put a 1971 GMC cab on it and at least then it looked like a GM. Nothing in that truck worked "well." Even the lock-out hubs in front are FULL manual. I wonder how many here have ever used them? Full manual hubs are not spring loaded. So if you got to lock them - most of the time they will not lock unless you rock the truck back and forth. Oh yeah - one more great item. Wheels were all split-rims. I d*mn near got killed one day hauling 500 gallons of maple sap when a wheel blew apart. I later put Ford one-piece rims on it. Got to watch out for those left-hand thread wheel nuts too!
Then the big insult to me. In the early 90s, I decided to "improve" the old truck. I tore the engine apart. I put in high compression pistons, small chamber heads, crane "RV" cam, dual plane Edelbrock hi-rise intake manifold, a tweaked GM Quadrajet carb, and headers. Got all done and guess what my fuel mileage was? 8 MPG!
I still have it. At some point in time I welded in a GM power steering box. When I turned the steering wheel to the left- the truck wheels went to the right. It only took me a few days to decide I could never get used to that. So I built a reversing box from two John Deere Cessna hydraulic pumps coupled together. I still use it and it still runs. But what a piece of JUNK.
My all-time best work-horse truck is my 1992 Dodge W250 4WD extended cab. Rides like a Sherman tank but gets the job done.
My all-time "nicest" truck is my 1994 Ford F-250 4WD extended cab with an IDI turbo 7.3. Rides like a Cadillac and has been extremely reliable. Gets 2 MPG less then my Dodge when empty and 3-4 MPG less when towing a heavy trailer. Real nice truck though. All I'll ever need.
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