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07-22-2005, 09:46 AM
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Fuel pumps in the tank are for quiet. The fuel injection required higher pressures and electric fuel pumps. When mounted externally, they tend to be loud. I have done it too.
Makes them annoyingy loud though. JMO. Jabba
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07-22-2005, 11:52 AM
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I've owned them all and had pretty good luck with all of them. The worst was a Datsun (pre-Nissan) mini-truck that I bought used and abused. But I half expected the problems considering the previous owner.
Bought a Dodge import mini after that and it lasted four years until I sold it to move to Utah. Replaced it with another one when I got here. It lasted six years and I sold it when it blew a head gasket. Moved up to a full size pickup with a manual tranny F-150, 302 V-8. That one lasted almost 12 years and 200,000 miles, but went through two trannies and three clutches in the process. One of the trannies was the dealership's fault, they made a small leak into a big one, dropped a gasket into the tranny and never got it out, but turned it bak to me as "fixed." Thousand miles later (on one freeway trip) it went dry and welded itself into a solid lump of ground steel - at 75 mph. Fun ride, that. Twenty years in Utah and I'm only on my third vehicle. I call this 2000 Dodge my "Durabledango" GREAT vehicle. I have 82,000 on it now, and will have 90 by mid-August. I may have it another decade.
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07-22-2005, 10:51 PM
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Rocky, the 302 in my brother's F-150 just keeps on going and going, even with him not changing the oil over the first 25,000 miles. However, we have had problems in other areas of the truck, but I guess everything can't always be perfect.
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07-23-2005, 05:05 AM
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Trucks aint necc. easier to work on.take it from me..lol
tryin to get the spark plugs out of mine can be a chore fer me in my truck..they put em in the dernest places they could muster. However..most of the time it is fairly easy. Changin the belt is a snap.I bought my chevy 5 years ago from a woman next to Bristol va who's son had died of cancer 6 months earlier. The truck aint have nary a scratch on it nowheres. Its a 92 silverado 4x4 w/ all the xtras they could think of, an it had 100,000 on it. 5yrs later..it's got 263,000 on that 350. Had to rebuild the tranny, and that's the extent of major work done. No motor work but an alternator, feul pump (my hubby cussed fer 5 days over that) and a king pin..a few universal joints too. but that's cause of of where i take it and how fast i take it there lol  I paid 3,500 cash on the barrelhead fer it..and I can say it was the best investment vehicle-wise i have ever made. But, those are few and fer between. Somtimes you just wind up w/ a workhorse no matter which brand you buy. The motor is goin in my Dodge 3/4 ton this weekend..slap the intake and heads on it and it'll be ready to go. I'm excited. Now I just gotta git it painted and the interior done. Which reminds me..I need opinions and some help from yall...I need to make a new thread..lol
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