I was getting into my truck the other day after just putting the little guy in the back seat when I felt the truck rocking... Some girl didnt see my truck and backed up into the front end. Bull bar took all the hit, and just ended up with a couple minor scratches on one of the tubes.
Little did I know, my truck is hard to see

 

The egg must be scrambled and it has to have either bacon or sausage!

 

not a lot of green sauce lovers around here.....

 

yep

 

she just thought you were cute and gave you a love tap...

 

or she was blind!

 

she was blinded by the beauty of Craig's truck...

 

Thats a scary thought, she was a rough looking lady in her walmart attire...... Damn I shouldve gave her John's number

Id say how do you not see a full size truck behind you

 

yep...

 

Well, I think it's time to ditch my truck and let it be someone else's problem now. I could smell coolant the last couple times when I parked the truck after driving it so I popped the hood when I got home last night and the degas cap was wet with coolant so I think the head gaskets finally gave up at 175,700 miles. There is no tell tale white smoke when the truck is running and no oil in the coolant or vice versa but I'm just tired of throwing money at this thing lately. Going to start looking for either a nice clean low milage older Cummins 12 valve, 7.3L, or a newer 6.4L F350 or see if I can find a nice Chassis cab and put a Western Hauler bed on it.

 

I almost backed into my buddies Silverado a few weeks ago in the Festiva. In my defense though since I was sitting so close to the ground I couldn't see the truck, just the ground under the truck

 

That's too bad Dave. Those things sure can cost some $$$.

Maybe it's time to go with an F150 EB.

 

Or just put a Cummins in your truck, I won't tell...

Good luck on the hunt, hope you stick with a Ford though.

 

Thank's Jim, negative ghost rider on the EcoToast.

 

Thank's Matt, it doesn't make financial sense for me to an engine swap on it because of how much I still owe on the truck. It's a $10,000 dollar job to do a swap and around $5500 to do gaskets and ARP head studs. I want to stay with Ford but I really like the reliability and ease to work on the Cummins motors even though I don't really like the wrapper the motor comes in.