four_by_ken
1/2 ton status
It was a nice trip.
Nothing special happened.
German guys I worked with thought I was nuts.
Nothing special happened.
German guys I worked with thought I was nuts.
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750 miles... one day... and a M1009
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par for the course for these old Chevy's...as long as they're reasonably maintained they are ridiculously reliable.
Rene
Rene
COCHEV
1/2 ton status
just did 450+ miles this weekend in the work truck. plus i average 450-500 miles a week working bend and living in banks. i change the oil a lot...
i find myself slowly returning everthing to stock- funny how things just seem to work better that way. i must be getting old...
i find myself slowly returning everthing to stock- funny how things just seem to work better that way. i must be getting old...
79bonanza
1/2 ton status
yea i have found usually no matter what after market parts you put on theres nothing like a stock replacement part, usually higher quality last longer and fit better just my 0.02
Drove this from Vancouver BC to Moab and back (with hardtop and doors of course)
2500 miles + plus wheelin. I don't recall even checking the oil before we left. I'm sure it was fine...lol
When it was a bit smaller i drove it from Vancouver BC to Round Rock TX and back in under 6 days...flat towing another K5 all the way home. That was 5100 miles return. 4 months later we drove down to San Diego and back and drug home a '74 Blazer. ~3000 miles.
Out of all my road trips the only real issue i had was a hinky alternator on the return side of the TX trip.
Rene
Vrmasson
Registered Member
this is mileage related I guess, but not in one day thing. When I bought my K5, it had 79k miles on it, in less than a year I have almost doubled the mileage as it sits at 150k right now. I maintained it even though the trans was going and it finally went last weekend after slipping, popping, shaking, and stalling for months. I just didn't have the money to fix it, so I'm looking for another K5 or Suburban from 75-91. I love these old trucks.
Most I have driven my truck in a day is about 550 miles, in a round trip to pick up and bring back a motor. I take trips like that all the time. Right now I have no problem driving it to work all week at about a 100 miles a day.
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lectric80
3/4 ton status
Nearly 2 years ago I took Krusty and our old 69 Trade Winds pop up to Newport, Or. Total trip was a bit over 1800 miles, and I did the first almost 800 the first day. Return trip was broke out a bit more by staying in Idaho overnight then finishing back to Tooele. Not one single hiccup other than the lost fuel mileage from 10% ethanol. 3 tanks of gas each way, of course with gas at $4.25 a gallon that week it wasn't cheap, but it was totally reliable.
Now she sits in my garage waiting for me to rebuild the trans and get her back out. Should be making a Yellowstone trip in July, 600 miles each way, towing a 73 Apache Ramada weighing 2400 lbs. I trust her to be just as reliable on that trip.
Now she sits in my garage waiting for me to rebuild the trans and get her back out. Should be making a Yellowstone trip in July, 600 miles each way, towing a 73 Apache Ramada weighing 2400 lbs. I trust her to be just as reliable on that trip.
4xcrazy
3/4 ton status
Stomis
Professional Amateur
I drove my heap about 450-500 in 1 day. Flatbed, 4 spd, 36 tsls, 60mph the whole way, no ac and 95* out. O and I managed to listen to literally every cd I had in the truck that worked.
My record was Sheridan, WY to Grand Rapids, MI in about 27 hours pretty much non stop by myself. Wouldn't recommend it though. Ugh...
four_by_ken
1/2 ton status
I've driven much further.... heck much further on my motorcycle. I think it was 970 straight through on my bike. I would have done the other 30 if I would have know I had ridden that far.
It was just a little different doing it in a M1009 when everyone in SC thought I was insane.
It was just a little different doing it in a M1009 when everyone in SC thought I was insane.
Wusses.
four_by_ken
1/2 ton status
Yup, that sums it up totally!!
Then again 750 miles goes pretty far in Europe.
Yeah. It's all perspective.
I love to watch Top Gear (British car show for those uninformed and unprivileged enough to have never seen it) and love their races and challenges but always laugh when they talk about how far they go...and it's a drive across two or three countries in one day. We'd be 3 across a few states and you'd be most of the way across two provinces in the same time.
I love to watch Top Gear (British car show for those uninformed and unprivileged enough to have never seen it) and love their races and challenges but always laugh when they talk about how far they go...and it's a drive across two or three countries in one day. We'd be 3 across a few states and you'd be most of the way across two provinces in the same time.
