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I have somewhere around 130k on my 04. Bought in 4/08 with 46k. But the truck got rained on today. And Ryan since you like to make comments about my messy console, you can have Zane white glove it for you.

 

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Bought my 05 in 03/11 with 55k. Has 130k now. More coming as it goes back and forth to work each day from my new house versus a camp near work. I dread having to retire the old girl someday. I need another 50k mile gmt800 to use lol. I want to put 500000 miles on the 05 but I don't see it making it.

 

As far as doing I am hauling my 04 behind my 03 to get them all to my new shop and house. Shop needs some reno's. Its brand new and mostly finished but needs benches, real lighting, two of the 3 overhead doors made into one big one.... an addition with a taller roof and hoist bay etceru7yhyn.jpg

 

As it sits now. Far two end doors shall become one. Its 60' x 30' and nowhere big enough lol.

 

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Court time for a ticket.

 

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Had my truck hooked up to a computer and driven to see what the trans throws up, it's not throwing any codes on that either, I'm almost 100% positive it's a servo. So at some point were going to pull that and if it is bad we will probably replace it with a corvette servo. Until then we added some Lucas transmission anti slip for the hell of it to see what happens.

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Got home and noticed something in my tire

 

Dammit

 

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Bought my 05 in 03/11 with 55k. Has 130k now. More coming as it goes back and forth to work each day from my new house versus a camp near work. I dread having to retire the old girl someday. I need another 50k mile gmt800 to use lol. I want to put 500000 miles on the 05 but I don't see it making it.

 

As far as doing I am hauling my 04 behind my 03 to get them all to my new shop and house. Shop needs some reno's. Its brand new and mostly finished but needs benches, real lighting, two of the 3 overhead doors made into one big one.... an addition with a taller roof and hoist bay etceru7yhyn.jpg

 

As it sits now. Far two end doors shall become one. Its 60' x 30' and nowhere big enough lol.

 

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I bet I'll hit half a million on this truck, but I'm pretty sure I'll have swapped the motor at least once more before that, just cause I want a 6.0L.

 

Nice garage by the way, wish I had a garage and lift I'm stuck out on the driveway haha

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Thanks :). The guy that built it did it more for a woodworking shop and it has a divider wall in the middle that I wouldn't have. I could tear it out but the bathroom is built into part of that wall. Its okay though as I want to make one half that has one small door my engine/clean room.

 

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The old 03 had a load as my 04 was heaped with pretty well all the tools from my old shop. So easily with the trailer closing in on 10000 lbs. For just a MIT tube, e fans and my tune it pulled it like a champ.... but yeah you could feel it lol. The 03 is getting this

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On top of this

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Which has these heads

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Might pull a bit better.

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Chris Senior Enthusiast

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So tge UPS guy decided to trap me in my house. He put my tire so when I opened the screen it would wedge the tire between the screen and stucco.

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Also it was installed free because I'm a veteran

 

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Thanks :). The guy that built it did it more for a woodworking shop and it has a divider wall in the middle that I wouldn't have. I could tear it out but the bathroom is built into part of that wall. Its okay though as I want to make one half that has one small door my engine/clean room.

 

This was last night e4e2ehyp.jpg

 

The old 03 had a load as my 04 was heaped with pretty well all the tools from my old shop. So easily with the trailer closing in on 10000 lbs. For just a MIT tube, e fans and my tune it pulled it like a champ.... but yeah you could feel it lol. The 03 is getting this

ysesabeg.jpg

 

On top of this

vupejy3y.jpg

 

Which has these heads

banu3uty.jpg

 

Might pull a bit better.

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Seems like you got your hands full. I'll take that blower off your hands to lessen the load haha

Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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4 straps crossed correctly that made it 300 miles without the engine moving. What looks bad is the excess tails I had to get rid of by wrapping around whatever as I had nothing to neatly tie them up with.

 

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4 straps crossed correctly that made it 300 miles without the engine moving. What looks bad is the excess tails I had to get rid of by wrapping around whatever as I had nothing to neatly tie them up with.

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You should have seen the F150 clip on my bed. It would have made your straps look perfect

 

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You should have seen the F150 clip on my bed. It would have made your straps look perfectSent from my Samsung Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk Pro

I think that's the pic on your build thread that made me go "what da hell!?" Haha

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Everybody said what the hell

 

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