Lightfield
May 13 2003, 01:45pm
First, I want to thank Zoom for pointing me to the "GEM box", THANKS!
My '78 F-100 300ci ^ was giving me the fits with the automatic choke & replaced it with a manual & bla·de·blabla & ordered my FIRST Ranger in '82.
Got it that summer, an early '83.
2.3 Pinto Pony motor.
I kept it 'til '90 when I ordered a F-150 4X4.
That was really too big (and guzzled gas) for just commuting, carrying a load or two of horse**** and maybe a rotortiller once a year and a couple/few dead deer so ordered a '95 Ranger Extended cab XLT 4X4 in '95.
Ordered special on the '95, 327 rear for gas mileage. Great gas mileage (23-26 highway) BUT the damned rear end started making SERIOUS GROWLING noises at about 23K.
Whilt touring the south.
Back to Ford....in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
Rented a car & toured the Jack Daniels & George Dickle's distilleries for two days.
Fixed.
Supposedly.
Back home.
About 30K more noises.
Back.
More noises.
Back.
Bought the extended warrenty.
Finally I decided, I just don't TRUST this truck, I want a truck I can hop into and drive to Washington state if I so decide, not something I have to worry about "making it" or not.
Traded it in (didn't even want to sell it!) on an ordered '99 Extended cab XLT flareside 4X4 that I have now with 44K and other than the wiper switch recall & Firestone recall this GEM box thing is my first bitch.
It has a 373 rear, my mileage is about 18½-21½ highway.
I'm 56 years old, worked as a kid in HS for my first car (a '57 Ford 6), spent 4 years in the Marine Corps and retired after working for the phone company over thirty LONG years.
Even if you love what you're doing, thirty years of dealing with the public, fellow workers and mismanagement WILL sour you on it, take my word.
My son is 17 and a junior. Hopefully next year at this time he'll have a college picked out and I can sell and move out of this over populated (MOST DENSELY POPULATED, I might add) state that seems like another country (when will English be declared an "offical language"?) and a dirty, ****ty one at that and HOPEFULLY move south into a rural setting where it doesn't cost me about $90 a week in property tax and then get wacked with "sewer usage" every quarter besides.
NJ sucks!
And I didn't even mention our ANTI-gun laws, roads clogged to a standstill, crime, cost of living, water shortages and ghettoes.
Too many people and more are swarming in daily.
http://www.smilies-world.de/Smilies/Smilies_klein_1/rant.gif
Look out you rebels!
Your worst nightmare, a damned yankee with a U-Haul trailer!
;)
But my neck is red.
That's my story
My '78 F-100 300ci ^ was giving me the fits with the automatic choke & replaced it with a manual & bla·de·blabla & ordered my FIRST Ranger in '82.
Got it that summer, an early '83.
2.3 Pinto Pony motor.
I kept it 'til '90 when I ordered a F-150 4X4.
That was really too big (and guzzled gas) for just commuting, carrying a load or two of horse**** and maybe a rotortiller once a year and a couple/few dead deer so ordered a '95 Ranger Extended cab XLT 4X4 in '95.
Ordered special on the '95, 327 rear for gas mileage. Great gas mileage (23-26 highway) BUT the damned rear end started making SERIOUS GROWLING noises at about 23K.
Whilt touring the south.
Back to Ford....in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
Rented a car & toured the Jack Daniels & George Dickle's distilleries for two days.
Fixed.
Supposedly.
Back home.
About 30K more noises.
Back.
More noises.
Back.
Bought the extended warrenty.
Finally I decided, I just don't TRUST this truck, I want a truck I can hop into and drive to Washington state if I so decide, not something I have to worry about "making it" or not.
Traded it in (didn't even want to sell it!) on an ordered '99 Extended cab XLT flareside 4X4 that I have now with 44K and other than the wiper switch recall & Firestone recall this GEM box thing is my first bitch.
It has a 373 rear, my mileage is about 18½-21½ highway.
I'm 56 years old, worked as a kid in HS for my first car (a '57 Ford 6), spent 4 years in the Marine Corps and retired after working for the phone company over thirty LONG years.
Even if you love what you're doing, thirty years of dealing with the public, fellow workers and mismanagement WILL sour you on it, take my word.
My son is 17 and a junior. Hopefully next year at this time he'll have a college picked out and I can sell and move out of this over populated (MOST DENSELY POPULATED, I might add) state that seems like another country (when will English be declared an "offical language"?) and a dirty, ****ty one at that and HOPEFULLY move south into a rural setting where it doesn't cost me about $90 a week in property tax and then get wacked with "sewer usage" every quarter besides.
NJ sucks!
And I didn't even mention our ANTI-gun laws, roads clogged to a standstill, crime, cost of living, water shortages and ghettoes.
Too many people and more are swarming in daily.
http://www.smilies-world.de/Smilies/Smilies_klein_1/rant.gif
Look out you rebels!
Your worst nightmare, a damned yankee with a U-Haul trailer!
;)
But my neck is red.
That's my story