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mr.mindless

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High miles, deleted, lots of fresh parts. The business that owned it changed direction and sold it when the rear end blew. A friend picked it up cheap a few months ago and had a shop rebuild the rearend. It was broken in properly, rechecked, and filled with synthetic goodness.352k 2007 4x2 6sp C&C with 9.5' CM flatbed. 30k on delete, head gasket, turbo, injectors (it was loosing coolant, turned out it was the EGR and that's when/why). 9/10 on paint and body.Smarty Jr, no blowby, 3.42 gears, fresh brakes, front beam axle and steering were gone through, tranny is tight and doesn't grind, South Bend twin disc & hydraulics.cruise non-op, ABS light is on, needs tires, needs E-brake refreshed, driver seat has the typical wear.post-10730-138698199037_thumb.jpgI'm real close to sending him a deposit, and I haven't even pulled the valve cover off my pile yet.

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MPG will likely be less than your current truck

:lmao: lifetime (242k-301k) mpg on my '97 is 11.8. 12.7 mpg average since the 13sp transmission, removing all the figures were I had broken injector lines. I have a small pile of receipts from the last year to input, these numbers only go through May 2012 and just over 300,000. I think my figures in the last 18,000 miles have been very similar.
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:lmao: lifetime (242k-301k) mpg on my '97 is 11.8. 12.7 mpg average since the 13sp transmission, removing all the figures were I had broken injector lines. I have a small pile of receipts from the last year to input, these numbers only go through May 2012 and just over 300,000. I think my figures in the last 18,000 miles have been very similar.

I'm same as mindless.. my 3500 averages 11.5-12.5mpg.. The 3gen looks sweet, mike.

But there is a difference... Mindless tows for a living and Rogan typical is empty. (or are you?) :whistle:
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Thats a pretty sweet looking truck. Though I love me some cruise control. What is the trucks purpose of use? Hot shot service on pavement all the time?The lack of 4x4 would bother me, but considering that you are towing with it, you honestly can likely get anywhere you should be taking a trailer with a full set of chains. All it needs is a big auxiliary fuel tank, gauges, and a tool box.

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[ATTACH]5188[/ATTACH]17.3mpg over the first 120 miles according to the overhead. The 2500 is a shell, its 5.9CR was fed some gasoline by a dealer salesman and was unhappy about it. Buddy of mine bought it, sold motor trans and case out of it, it's getting a 12v swap to run veggie like the rest of his fleet.

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6.7 vgt exhaust brake spanks the hell out of my Banks Brake.

Quieter, way more power, rides better, and 14mpg calculated with around 4500# behind me. I didn't check how accurate the odometer is though, so +/- a lil bit of fudge.

Tow bars SUCK in the snow. Almost had to wait for a thaw to get out of the harbor creek PA TA where I waited out a whiteout.

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I can't have anything nice!!

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30 miles after I droppod the 2500. I sat at a light and didn't put it in gear soon enough and kinda romped on it. Heard a bang, didn't feel totally funny and I momentarily convinced myself it was something in the toolbox shifting.

it felt really awful going around a building to go through a Tim Horton's drive through on my way to show off the new truck to my girlfriend... Didn't really want to go after that and I knew something was broken as opposed to just wrong. My buddy Smike came over to my house after Kim and I enjoyed some St. Paddy's dinner, and we finished mounting up a new winch on my lowboy and went on a retrieval mission. It backed out of its spot with some convincing, but no way it was going to drive up on the trailer so I'm glad we sorted out the winch mounting.

I was initially thinking I stripped teeth in the diff gears (the gears were done ~3000 miles ago, original 3.73s let go at 350k - a diff shop did them and they were inspected for backlash after 500 mile breakin, so they were done right), but then it was acting more like a cross pin or axle shaft. I was real happy to pull a broken axle shaft out when we got back to my place.

I'm also real NOT happy to have broken an axle shaft on the damn street! This axle is rated for nearly a ton more axle weight than the Dana 80 under the '97, that I've abused the hell out of and never harmed. WTF!

For the moment I'm going to go with "when the gears went out, it stressed the hell out of the axle shaft and now it let go" :pray:

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Had to pull the diff case to get the splines out.

Cleaned up the bore and saw cracks. :banghead:

These 11.5" limited slips are rare as hens' teeth used, and new they cost a mint!

The air compressor and tank are coming out of my '97 and an ARB will be here for the '07 Friday or Monday. :spend:

Maybe I'll even get NY plates on it someday :ashamed:

I like smilies :tease: They're all I've got left to keep me sane! :mad:

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Ahhh, the new truck blues :sick:. Sorry about the misfortune. If it makes ya feel any better, I just socked a pile of $$$ into the front end of my truck, and its got a hell of a lot less than 350k miles on it!! My stuff was a little different it wasnt wore out it was plain ol dried out :broke:

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Man, that sucks. I've done that too though. Last round was with my 02. Bought it, shelled the trans, and went with ATS. The owner did lie his butt off on what was in the original trans though. Well, you like putting semi tractor parts on your Rams... why not use this as an opportunity to put a Kenworth axle with air locker under the 4500 and switching to 22.5s? :ashamed: (I kid!)

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