That's great if it works for you. I myself drove the same truck for 11-1/2 years and 217,804 miles.
Unfortunately the WNY winters were taking their toll. It had no rocker panels left, and the fenders were on the verge of rust-through. The brakes were shot, and the lines were one good panic stop from bursting. The transmission was getting vague, and slipped once in a while. The power steering would lock up and stall the engine from time to time. The front tires were just about to the wear bars. The voltmeter would drop below 12V at every stop, even with a new battery and new alternator.
Long story short, they DO wear out and there comes a point where it is not worth trying to keep them going. Mine needed several thousand dollars' worth of work to get it back up to snuff, and in the end I would still have a 12 year old high mileage truck worth about $1300.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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