Time is money. If you have to do all that to repair or stop rust couldn’t you spent that on getting a better truck ? At some point there has to be a trade off. Guess depends on if you’re broke or just like projects

Run honest numbers. Including 1 to 4 k a year in matanance cost on old trucks full coverage insurance in new trucks. All new trucks seem to have some reliability issues. Few examples are toyotas spending rods bearings, Chevy transitions and on and on.

Its at least 40k savings driving old trucks. And for me I like they are less complex so have less to go wrong. I prefer the simplicity of the old 4.6 in my new old truck vs the complexity of the small higher compression dull turbos with a lot more electronics on the new stuff.

Generally after market parts are available and established and they are easy to work on. If you take them to a shop any independent shop can fix them where newer trucks are likely to require going to a dealer and dealer parts.


Green county. How large of an air tank on your compressor will I need to run that spray gun? Will a small pancake compressor get the job done? One leg of my powere from the house to the barn has gone bad so my 220 compressor wont function and I have not bought the new wire or rented the equipment to run a new underground line in.