Man's '91 pickup passes the 1M-mile mark
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/...ion_mile_truck

LOL :P

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I don't think I could stand the same vehicle for that long.

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Go GM...

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...yet another gay post... thanks... :P

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Didnt they already do this with a car on letterman a long time ago?

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I wonder how many water pumps, and alternators he replaced in the 1mill miles.

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might have several cars have made it to 1mil miles. even al bundy's dodge dart made it

np, if it was a toyota it would be awesome huh

prob a couple, since they aren't build to last 1 mil miles

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Awsome, that car was a beater.....lol

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yodas don't really do it for me... maybe a nissan would be nice or a honda :1

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heard that ---- on the radio some oil company wants it or gm does.. and are throwing offers i think is what they said

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its probably had a couple transmissions and at least every part replaced on the engine. im guessing only thing the same is block rods pistons and crank.

my accord has over 300k :y

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88LXI accord 456000 on the STOCK MOTOR when I sold it....

I wouldnt bve suprised if that Truck had a new notor put in it....

But, it is believable... If it was a Ford id question it... LOL

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GM makes some pretty solid motors.

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edit for weird double post :1

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I've heard of some of those older Chevy trucks getting 500k on a fairly regular basis. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm sure he put a shitload of replacement parts on it to keep it going. :S
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My work owns a 2000 chevy 15 pass van with 495,000 miles on it. It is an airport shuttle and does like 300 miles a day when its not broke. They also have afew cabs, 2000 dodge stratus's with like 300,000 on them and they are ready to fall apart. I wonder how many ball joints he has had to do and brake lines. They should give him a brand new chevy, that would be cool....

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did you even read the artical?

why would they talk about how many oil changes he did on it if it was a different motor. and also they talked about needing to re thread the oil drain many times from usage

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motor could have been replaced, it's an article about a truck making it 1M miles, not a all original never rebuilt motor making it 1M miles.

it's cool that it got to the 1M mile mark, that's a ---- load of driving.

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Im not a GM guy by any means but i do have some respect for them. Im a honda owner and i used to trash talk GM like almost every other Honda owner until i actually worked with some GM products. I did an internship for Mercury Marine where i primarily worked on supercharged 4 and 6 cylinder outboards but i was also involved with the competitive analysis and testing of many other engines. I tore down and tested dozens of marine and automotive engines including Suzuki's, Honda's(both marine and auto), Yamaha's Tihatsu's Mercury's Audi's / VW's, GM's and many others.

In a marine application the engine is under high load throughout the majority of its use unlike an automotive engine. In a car you may hammer on it to get up to speed but then there is very little load when your cruising. In a boat you hammer on it to get up to speed and then run it wide open for sometimes HOURS. GM engines may be a bitch to work on (i haven't worked on many to know) but i do know from experience that they build a damn tough and reliable engine. These things went through hell and back with no complaints. I'm talking testing 600 hours at WIDE OPEN THROTTLE AND FULL LOAD with only oil changes. Any idea how much fuel that consumes? Well, thats a different story(Its unrelated to this discussion but with the supercharged high output V8's the $100k price tag of the engine was nothing compared to the fuel cost over its life) . For comparison lets say a Chevy 350 gets 20 miles to the gallon in a half ton truck...just an estimate....in a boat it might get 2 miles per gallon. That gives you an idea of the load on the engine. I think most people who trash talk GM are just jumping on the bandwagon although I'm sure a few might have actual bad experiences.

Also when doing tear downs i was always impressed with the newer GM engines. I worked with an LS6 for an extended period of time and i really like that engine. I also did a tear down on a new Chevy Colorado 4 cylinder and was really impressed with the quality of design and construction. I have no idea how fun it was to drive or anything but it was a well thought out piece featuring a lost foam head and block.



Ill say it again....I'm no GM lover but after working with them I've got respect. Im not saying GM is great but i think they get a lot more abuse than they really deserve. Just my opinion which is based purely off of the engine, not the vehicle as a whole.

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Yeah they had it on the news a little bit ago. Said he has done like 300 oil changes, 5 transmissions, and some other crap. Said the motor is original though.

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i work in the delivery/courier business and its not that rare for our trucks to get to 700,000mi+ and then they sell them off to the public. granted they were dodges and the motors had like no compression left, somehow they rode smooth as glass. the key is to make long trips without shutting them off, just like tractor trailers, they may run for months strait between service

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tractor trailers do that all the time.

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confucious say: cold motor < warmed up motor

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i agree. any vehicle that takes long trips instead of inner city driving always seems to last longer. constant stop and go is hard on engines in the long run. my s10 is about to hit 200k. and its been almost all interstate driving. i expect 300,000 out of it.

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yea who cares how old it is its a gm...... ::)
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ricer

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our 85 f350 mason dump at work has 617k on it, 6.9l non turbo diesel

and almost every site truck has over 300k all fords.

we beat the ------- ---- out of them too

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woah hotrex your alive? i thought you were a legend when i joined...

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god damm thats like 80,000 a year :o To bad the trucks probably had 4x's what it cost new in repairs

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Yea but diesel engines fall into there own category. they always last longer. there built better and have different charectoristics. however you spell it.

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Probably the only thing that went 1 million miles is the guage cluster....

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Or the motor if you actually ------- read you ignorant illiterate african american

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http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/...802010394/1980

A little more information than the original post.

I have a hard time seeing the head not needing to be cleaned up in a million miles. A million miles on a timing chain is a lot. This guy seems like he is pretty ---- about taking care of his truck though. I'm not sure what they call a tune-up, but one every 3000 miles probably was $80-100 every week or two. That's pretty costly.

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ya its a miracle the timing chain lasted that long usually they get streched. but if he drives it easy it might to have streched, and it might be a double roller chain which is much better than the old ones.

6 water pumps in a million miles is a miracle too :)

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no ---- some parts had to be replaced. did you expect them to still be original by this time?

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My chevy blazer was up near 650,000.....interior was replaced twice, once due to a fire,the second to choice, many water pumps, stock block beat to hell. thing just wouldn't stop running. this was the 4.6l Chevy blazer..

Then i got sick of the thing and let the shitbox get towed from unpaid parking tickets.

A million miles is long as ------- hell to look at the same old truck

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do you mean 4.3l?

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Yea sorry my fault. it was a 4.3l, thing ran its ass off though. trailriding, driving through rivers, you name it.