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Oh give me a break. :rolleyes: :thumbdwn: OK, the wife is gone now... FRICKING AWESOME!!!!!!! remember, extra filters in the in-cabin air filters to prevent blood mist. Also, might want to reinforce the glass, them zombie heads are tough! Other than that...

Wow, the tranny lasted 200K??? Pretty good for any auto. how many miles does the beast have???

^^^^^^^ True that. How long has your noise been there? Mine has been rattling for about 10K (here come the flames...).

160K on my SOHC. New tranny and transfercase at 135K and 145K respectively. Been a good engine, but it sounds like a diesel right now. I have heard of people driving with THE noise for a ton of miles and others who's bombed shortly after it started. I figure I'll just let it run until it...

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Beautiful truck! Congrats!

We bought my wife a 2001 Volvo S40 with the 1.9L turbo. mileage has been incredible with city:26 and highway:38 (hit 40 on a long trip). Really classy car and it has been incredibly reliable. It has 110K miles and the only thing it has had replaced was the timing belt and headlights. We got it...

^^^^^True that. What pisses me off most is that I baby my rig, do routine oil changes with Amsoil every 3500 miles (I know...wasteful...) and rarely accelerate to the point the tach goes above 2500. I got a VERY early 97 model year, so I will scratch this one up to failures of a newly designed...

True. Realistically, $3500 for a replacement engine is pretty reasonable and it is ludicrous to assume an engine will last forever without some maintenance costs. I am just bitter because my tranny crapped on me the day before my wedding (Oh god was that a scramble...), had the transfercase...

$200 in parts and 1000 in labor, it's not a cheap fix. Also, if my problem was simply the front tensioner, it wouldn't be a big deal, but my problem is the rear chain. As we both know, doing that is a hefty job requiring either the removal of the engine or the trans (I'd just remove the...

LOL, I think the same thing when I start mine up. Does it sound OK in park but horrible in gear? Mine sounds pretty good in park, but the minute I put into D or R, man, sensitive ears beware! Absolutely ridiculous. Mine started making the noise around 138K but it was just a small ticking and...

Keep the OHV. I had a 92 (RedEB- hence the name) and it ran perfectly until I sold it at 160K). My SOHC is rattling like a marble in a tin can at just 150K even though I had the recall done at 115K. Don't get the SOHC, it's a money-pit. I love my truck but I am definitely a little bitter after...

:eek: wow. It always surprises me how abused our emergency medical system/911 system. It's amazing that some hoodlum who wants a note to get out of work (I'm surprised they work at all) was willing to wait hours in an ER. What a moron. Being an EMT is a tough job, keep up the good work. :thumbsup:

Oh weah, weah, weah. A little rain never hurts! ;) Unless the corresponding winds blow the truck away, then that's a different matter, Kinda off topic, but what' the story about your sig???

LOL, even then it may not be enough. Oil analysis, random double blind studies with greater than 100,000 experimental groups, and a MPG average rating of 35 while towing and going uphill would be required to attain trust. Until then...advice will be refused. Note: oil analysis must be done by a...

:ttiwwp: Congrats!

LOL. I put a fartcan on my X and I beat one of those. It may have been that Tornado I had just installed too.

Beautiful install! :thumbsup: If you don't mind me asking, how much did that unit run you and have you been satisfied with it overall? Does the unit have GPS support? Nicely done, looks factory.

LOL Glad to hear you are OK, from the first pic it really didn't look bad at all and I was surprised to hear it was going to be totaled. Now that I see the compromised frame, I must say that must have been one hell of a hit. These Sploders have heavy frames, I have no doubt he was going 55...

i got side-swiped in my old 92 (right after I got it professionally painted...it was SOOOOOOOO beautiful :mad: , almost 5K for that paint job.....hmmmmm) when my odo read 666. Now, I try to ride past that number in parking lots or on MY street only. Very superstitious now. I feel for you my...

Perhaps some trolling going on here??? :rolleyes: Also, what I want to know is how many (percentage would be more than sufficient) of Sam's posts are simply, "welcome dude," statements. To contribute a racing victory of my own, I totally pawned a 1980's corolla. I was redlined at around 55...

Man, I thought I had it bad. ;) :p: My truck, which I tried to sell but to no avail, needs the following: -New tensioners and timing chain cassettes (front AND rear :eek: ) -New PCV -New seat recliner (passenger side) -paintless dent repair on passenger rocker panel (covered by...

Yep, it is indeed the thermostat housing. I tried to install the temperature sensor and discovered that the housing is intended to be installed as one unit. The individual sensors are not intended to be serviced alone, the whole unit must come out. 164 sounds about right for what I paid. But...

:eek: Sorry to hear that, but at least your mom is OK. At least the X can always be replaced, glad to hear nobody was hurt.

I like this guy already! :D It sounds like you found a good one, 101K miles is nothing on those 5.0's! Hope it all works out, definitely keep us updated! :thumbsup:

Welcome and I would say, depending on mileage of course, that a V8 01 X would be an excellent model! The V8s are incredibly reliable and the drivetrain doesn't have any bombshells waiting to explode...unlike the SOHC (ohh, I'm still bitter about mine...sorry). The V8s are great and they have...