OT- 1,290,000 Miles Sure Is A Bunch

F-350 · Dec 21, 2009

I found this ad while searching craigslist. Are there actually a few trucks out there with this many miles be it a Ford,Chevy,Dodge,GMC? Whats the highest mile 1 ton or smaller truck that you have ever seen?

I'm still 1,120,000 miles short of reaching this with my old 7.3 IDI and at my age and only driving 4000 miles per year I'm not going to make it.
1,290,000 Miles

Ken Macfarlane · Dec 21, 2009

Looked at a 600,000 mile Ram w. Cummins. They were still asking a lot of money for the truck but it was well maintained.

Minnie Mo John 2 · Dec 21, 2009

I won't make it with my 1988 Chev 1/2 ton 4X4. 25053 miles so far. I do put more miles on the Buick.
John

gmccool · Dec 21, 2009

I worked for a company the used to deliver exotic cars anywhere in the lower 48. We used to run our Cummins to +600k miles before we took them out of the fleet. I pulled a enclosed 20' trailer that had a documented 980k miles on it. Gerald

S.Crum · Dec 21, 2009

I'm in with an 89' F-150 5.0L gas with 218.000 miles.
I clock about 7,000 a year.

Dan67 · Dec 21, 2009

I"am a millon short of that, on my daily driver 95 pwrst

john in la · Dec 21, 2009

Over 1 million miles is really a lot of miles for most 1 ton and smaller trucks because most are used in short run applications.

On the other hand I have seen many class 8 trucks with miles like that so it would not be unheard of if the 1 ton was used in a long haul hot shot type of business. Especially if it were a name brand engine like Cummings.

Janicholson · Dec 21, 2009

It wasn't a truck, but I rode a GMC Coachmaster Bus Built in 1956 or 57 that had more than 4.5 million miles on it (I saw the log, and talked to the Owner Driver)in 1969. He had the GMC 6_71 in it. He indicated it was the 15th rebuild, the 5th transmission, and 25th clutch. He forgot to count tires. He ran from Vincennes Indiana to St. Louis MO one way every work day. Rested at night, and drove back the next. JimN

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2009

An acquaintance of mine used to manage a business that had a fleet of 1-ton up to 2-ton straight trucks. He said that with regular maintenance, rebuilds occured at around 250,000-300,000 miles, and replacement happened around 500,000-600,000 miles...because after that, it was cheaper to replace them than keep on fixing the stuff that broke/wore out.

Goose · Dec 21, 2009

Fellows who pull campers from the factory to the dealer could probably run up that kind of miles.

thurlow · Dec 21, 2009

One of the guys who usta post on one-a-these forums did exactly that........coulda been flats instead of campers........and he had over a million miles on a Dodge w/Cummins.........

gab · Dec 21, 2009

I have 271,000 on a 90 1/2 ton Gmc. A couple sets of brakes, exhaust, a water pump, a fuel pump,valve seals and a pile of tires. Forgot the intake gaskits.
Northern IL. winters have been kind of hard on it the last couple of years but I sure like that old truck.

NEKS · Dec 21, 2009

How do you keep everything working that long. Am hauling grain for the neighbor with his 1966 chev. tandem axle grain truck. Last year it turned over 100,000 miles. Today it went to turn over to 101,000 and everything stopped at 999.9.

Spook · Dec 21, 2009

We had a 94 K Blazer with a 350 chevy. At 170K, the intake seals developed a leak. I had the pump, belts, fluid, and hoses replaced at the same time. Kind of a PM idea. Trans rebuilt at 230K. Last I heard, it's over 300K.

Richard from SE AZ · Dec 21, 2009

I bought a 1/2 ton Dodge 4x4 with the 318 in 1990. It has 274,000 miles on it and the ONLY thing thatI have done to the engine is change the water pump. Still has the original starter & alt. Never had the top off the engine. Rebuilt the tranny once and the front diffy once. Brakes twice. Still runs great but won't pull much anymore.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2009

Several years ago, I was talking to the guy at the next island at the local truckstop. He had a Dodge dually, pulling a HotShot trailer. He said the truck has 1.3 million miles. 2 new Inj pumps, and a few injectors, but the head had never been off he said. The truck still looked good..
If anyone has ideas of huge number of miles on a dually, I think the 19.5 wheels and tires would be a good investment.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 22, 2009

not a truck, but an old guy over here bought a VW Golf new and put 1 million KM (600k miles) on it. VW made a big deal of it and offered him either a new golf free or have his existing one professionally restored/refurbished. He chose the restore.

Dave

schmuck · Dec 22, 2009

This is an apples and oranges type of comparison, but locomotives typically get an overhaul at 1,000,000 miles. And get 8-10 of them in their lifetime.

alg · Dec 22, 2009

Not a truck.295,000 on a 98' Ford Contour.

hay · Dec 22, 2009

Between November 1983 and May 1993, I put on 298,000 on an F-600 Truck on the job. Still had mostly everything original including clutch and engine was never opened. It was my everyday work truck. It had a 330 cid V-8 and 4 speed tranny. I wish I had it now. The one I have now is junk.

John Harmon · Dec 22, 2009

221,000 miles and going strong.7.3 Turbo.Don't use it much any more but it is a keeper.JH

Dean · Dec 22, 2009

My Father was a field engineer for GMC Truck and Bus before retiring in 1969. He told me that GM over the road coaches (busses) were routinely operated for several million miles. City busses were routinely operated until the transit company replaced them with newer models or went out of business but were overhauled more frequently.

Interestingly, the 671 or later 6V71 powered city busses used a two speed hydramatic transmission with a V-drive to the rear axle.

Dean

Larry in GA. · Dec 22, 2009

I have 243391 on a Chev 1/2 ton 1998 4X4
Larry

Anonymous-0 · Dec 22, 2009

read about this one

Man’s Chevy 1,200 miles from million-mile mark
02/01/2008, 11:18 AM
By Drew Johnson

While many argue that foreign cars are far more reliable than domestic automobiles, here’s at least one case for the Big 3. Frank Oresnik of Medford, Wisconsin is on the verge of crossing the million-mile mark in his 1991 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.

Mr. Oresnik bought his truck used in 1996 with 41,000 miles on the clock, but has since racked up an average of 85,000 miles a year delivering seafood in three states and is just 1,2000 miles short of the milestone.

The though the truck has seen four radiators, three gas tanks, five transmissions and six water pumps, Mr. Oresnik has never had to recondition the engine itself — crediting his routine maintenance schedule and a little luck.

But even though his truck is still in working order, he plans to retire it after it reaches 1 million miles. “I feel almost like the longtime NFL player as he goes into his last training camp knowing this is the end,” Oresnik told The Detroit News.

dhermesc · Dec 22, 2009

My brother has a 1991 Ford F350 with the 7.3 diesel with well over 400K on it. Even more surprising is the p*** poor care he takes of it and it still keeps running.

We had a 1965 F600 with the old 300 I6 it, it had well over 300K on it without ever having the head off - but the distibutor was replaced once due to excessive slop.

fixerupper · Dec 22, 2009

The people I work with had a 94 Chevy 3/4 ton with a 454 that had 231,000 hard, tough, abused miles on it when they got rid of it. There are a lot of engines that have gone farther than this one but this one had an especially hard life.

It always ran hot, I'll never know how an engine can run that hot for that many miles and last that long. The computer put the tranny in the protection mode more than twice cause it was running so hot. Went through many water pumps, starters, alternators, a couple of radiators and a bunch of plug wires, but the engine itself was never apart. They got rid of it because the tranny finally took a dump. Jim

ericlb · Dec 22, 2009

that truck looks factory fresh if it were mine id keep it too even if you had to repower it eventually you'd still be ahead of the game

Revredneck · Dec 22, 2009

We had a '92 Chevy Astro that had 435,000 on it when we gave it away to a women's shelter about 3 years ago. It had the original transmission. The engine had been replaced at about 30K while under warranty. We bought it a year old with 15k on it. Last I heard, the gal who got it was still driving it. I don't think our '01 Montana will make it that far.

ILLEFTY · Dec 22, 2009

Younger brother has a 92 S-10 with a 2.5 engine in it. Has 500,000+ miles on it and it is the original engine and has never been apart. He still drives it to work (150 miles ) every day. Not bad for a throw away engine.

IH2444 · Dec 22, 2009

239,000 on a 90 Subaru. still going fine.

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