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nice to see 2nd gens still going strong, I don't put very many miles per year on my vehicles since I'm close to anything I need to go to pretty much, but am almost at 226k myself. At some point approx last summer, when either at my house or at the grocery store I'm assuming somebody had a fender bender with my truck, except the only thing it damaged was the driver's side exhaust pipe which scrunched it up some and makes the bed rattle randomly when idling now since the pipe is literally pressed against the bed's frame now....considered hacking the exhaust totally off and getting some quieter magnaflow later on since my dual exhaust cherry bomb extreme is quite loud, it's basically a straight pipe. Besides needing the exhaust fixed, I still haven't gotten around to doing my new water pump, or maybe I just need the pump gasket, have to add a little coolant approx every 100-120 miles, no biggie though, been doing it ~2 years now lol. I just hate the cold weather, will probably finally do that and even the timing chain for good measure in the warmer months. Already has lots of new sensors and tuneup and fuel pump, there's not much that could go "bad" on the truck now, I have a rainy day fund set aside for a trans replacement if that day comes.
Hey! Sorry for the late (12 year) response I've been busy. I have a 99 with the 5.9. 158xxx miles freshly replaced radiator and about to need a new tranny
245,000 and it was running great until i kept putting transmission fluid in it and driving while the transmission made noises, it's done now. Ran good except it took ten minutes to warm up, bad idle air control valve maybe.