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Had a few myself, 6 or 8 cylinder all gas guzzlers

 

Mine burn less than the boat - so guess I am happy. I don't remember what the MPG was in the Grand Cherokee's. The older wrangler in the picture is a 2012 6 cylinder, the 2021 has a 4 cylinder with turbo. Significant difference in mileage with the 2021. Neither of these get driven very many miles, so MPG does not have that much impact.

 

Hear you with the "impact" thing. Had a 6 cyl. grand cherokee that was getting 10 mpg, thought something was wrong. Got a newer GC with a 8 cyl, same milage. Lead foot was the problem.

 

My son said I couldn't get the truck in the garage. I had an inch in the front and the back.

 

Your parking brake is your friend.

 

Don't forget your hitch in one day.

 

Just what I heard on the forums. No personal experience with them

 

96 years, at least in a production sense. "In 1926, E. T. Jones, head of the powerplant section at McCook Field, and Sam Heron came to lead Wright’s engineering team in the development of the R-1750. This 9-cylinder engine with a 6.000" bore and 6.875" stroke incorporated Heron’s new type M cylinder with enclosed grease-lubricated valve gear and sodium- cooled exhaust valves." http://www.enginehistory.org/Piston/Wright/WrightR-1820.pdf

My 2018 Mustang is supposed to get its valves media-blast cleaned every so often (based on borescope observations down the intake!). I try to postpone the inevitable by installing a "catch-can" in the PCV system. We'll see...

 

Not mine but….how do you get into this thing?

 

I bought this 2016 F-250 6.7 Lariat new at the end of the year when Ford was transitioning to the aluminum body in 2017. I picked it up in Texas and saved 15k over the same truck here in California. I put a 40 gallon bed tank in it for long trips into Baja and swapped out the original 20" wheels for 18" wheels and mud terrain tires. In this picture I hauled this Subaru to Idaho to harvest the engine and computer for one of my VW projects. It has been a great truck.
On the lot in Texas:


And somewhere in Utah:

 

To avoid derailing this thread, I'd love to hear about that project in a PM, unless others also want to know.

 

I would love to hear about it.
My first car was a 64 bug that I baja'd.

 

Now that is a tight fit! Having a garage deep enough to fit our F-350 CC 8' bed was a must have when we were town house shopping. Not easy to find but we found one with room to spare.

 

A Bus is a commercial vehicle in CA so maybe it belongs here. This is the Cliff notes version. I had a 1959 23 window deluxe bus in the late 80s that I had to sell and always wanted another one. We have built up several VWs over the years (Bugs, Bajas, a Ghia and a couple of Things) but the prices of buses have gone through the roof. I decided to try the difficult route and keep costs down. About 6 years ago I found the rear 2/3rd of a 1959 panel bus in Yuma AZ. A few months later I picked up the front 1/3rd, a 1962 hack. Our twin boys went off to college later that year and the wife asked me to slow down on VW purchases as the college bills started to rack up. Fast forward to 2020 and they were ready to graduate and she let me continue with the project. After a lot of new sheet metal humpty dumpty was back together again in 2021 and she went from a panel bus to a 11 window. Now we are working on the drivetrain in 2022. I have a pro street 68 Bug transaxle with a Kennedy adaptor to the 2.5 Subaru to increase the HP from 40 in a typical bus to 200. The stock front suspension was replaced with an air ride beam and the drums replaced with drilled and slotted rotors and Wilwood brakes. The stock Subaru computer and harness were modified and trimmed down to the basics to run in the bus. I’m hoping it is running and driving by next summer and then it will be on to the body work. Here are a few thumbnail pictures of the journey.



Here is what it looks like now and what I am shooting for:

 

I saw something similar in a bubble-front that used a Toyota 20R inline 4. Pretty slick. I like the hairdryers in a Type 1, but not in the Type 2's unless you don't mind a "bit" of extra routine maintenance and the anemic acceleration.

 

Here's mine. I had a 97 Ford Expedition that was a great truck, but knew it was time for a change when the engine cut out while I was making a left turn on the inside lane of a double left turn while towing a 26 foot boat. Almost peed my pants and still not sure how I didn't wipe out the car in the outside lane. Traded up to a Dodge Laramie Longhorn fully loaded with leather, hemi, sunroof and towing package.

Sold the boat two months later, but still have the truck.

 

Love my 2012 F-250 super duty, it is my work truck but she also gets taken care of.

 

The problem was a bad bunch of valves from the supplier that went into about 60-100 broncos that ended April 2021 when they found the problem. Mine has the 2.7 twin turbo 6cyl which has its own gremlins I’m sure. Fun truck everyone in Fla drives a Jeep I wanted something else. I drive a 2019 GC in Ny it’s a lease and we’re buying it this month 22k miles on it and I love it 6 cyl pentastar 21mpg or so everything heats up inside and out for NY winters.