Spent $43 on a gallon can of rustoleum truck bed liner, sanded and painted the bed.

It's for appearance, not protection. PO beat the ever loving hell out of the bed- countless scrapes through the paint and through the primer... Probably more rust and primer than paint at this point. Well, "truck bed liner" now I suppose.

 

Well, I went ahead and filled the 98 on 89 Octane with a total of 18.2 gallons bringing fuel mileage in at 11.6 MPG's for town driving. 89 octane is currently at $3.75 per gallon and diesel $3.77 per gallon. K.

If fuel cost keep rising, I'll have to quit laughing at the "small car Ads".

 

On top of just doing my tie rod ends I had the ball joints replaced and a new U joint and Bearing for the driver side + alignment.

I also took the topper off to re weather strip it. I added some bushwacker bead rail caps and tail gate cap to prevent some rubbing that was going on between the bed, tailgate, topper and topper window.

 

I parked mine in the back yard until its sold or parted out.

 

Haven't been driving the truck too much lately, was going to drive it today when I noticed something hanging off underneath. One of the gas tank straps broke. Good thing I noticed, and good thing I've been driving the Denali lately.

 

filled the tank and drove it.

It is currently cheaper to drive than the S10, and it has A/C...

got 16mpg last fillup! $3.87/gal + 10cent discount at fred meyer for diesel.

regular unleaded at the same station was $3.97/gal and since both trucks get the same fuel economy... big one = cheaper/more comfortable to drive

 

^Truth^.............Our area though, I was $3.77 per gallon less .10 cents from Kroger for
diesel. I'm running about 15 mpg on the diesel. K.

Edit: Been a long 8 months, but got our hay cut today!

Edit 2: Drove the diesel about 250 miles on a run (wreck traffic, construction traffic),
hate those interstates when dealing with traffic!

 

Hit 190,000 miles today.......

 

I hit 215,000

 

I probably hit a few bugs, I know, I'm a murderer