Picked me up a 6.0 for a work truck

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Started a new job that doesn't provide trucks and just pays for fuel and an allowance. Me being the cheap ass I am I didn't pick up a new one like most of the guys I work with.

After a few weeks of looking I found an 08 eclb 4wd 136k miles for $11.5 k. It's a base work truck with power windows and locks. Carpet would of been nice, but this cleans up easy. The truck was a little rough. I had to straighten both bumpers and it looks like it's been driven through the woods for those 136k with all the scratches.

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I blew out the cooling stack... Then washed it out. I had to shovel thw mud off my driveway afterwords

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The engine was clean...

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Body guy told me I needed a new bedside. Nope just a few ratchet straps and a rubber mallet. I pulled the wheel well out 3/4" and still need to try and get the waves out.

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Buffed most of the scratches out of the bed and rear door in this pic. Ended up debadging it too. Man those Eraser Wheels work slick.

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Diesels have there place, but a cheap work truck there not. Cleaning up nice, love the lighting.

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ironmax said:
Diesels have there place, but a cheap work truck there not. Cleaning up nice, love the lighting.

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Yep I'm a diesel guy, but work pays my fuel so there's no real point to going with one. Plus diesels are to expensive to repair for something I only plan on driving a few years. Maybe I can move up the food chain enough that they will buy me the next truck.


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I can't justify destroying a 69K truck. I do 50-60K miles a year and I'm in roughly the same line of work you do. What we do is hard on our trucks. I'd need to replace the truck before I could pay it off. At least that's how I see it.

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A member asked me what LEDs I used so I'm gonna put up a picture of them. I get them from Ace electronics in Houston http://www.ace4parts.com/. They do ship but they don't have these LEDs on their online store. I used eight of them on my truck 4 in the toolbox and 4 in the bed. If you have a bedliner or a dark colored bed you might want six in the bed if you want a lot of light. If you don't have a bed cover like my work truck then you want to get some good quality LEDs like these that can handle carwashes and being exposed to the elements all the time.

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Looks like a Rig ride from hell
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Missed this post looking on my phone. Ya it was an oil field truck and by the looks of the rock chips and tires its never been driven on pavement. Interior cleaned up pretty good with a lot of scrubbing and upholstery cleaner. Maintenance records are great though, early oil changes and didnt miss anything. Im sure its had the shit ran out of it though.



ironmax said:
I can't justify destroying a 69K truck. I do 50-60K miles a year and I'm in roughly the same line of work you do. What we do is hard on our trucks. I'd need to replace the truck before I could pay it off. At least that's how I see it.

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Yikes thats alot of miles. The last big company (oil feild service industry) I worked for tracked every dollar and said diesels just cost to much to run. They where switching there fleet over to gas when I left. My last truck was a new Dodge 2500 CCLB with a hemi and it got 6mpg if I was sitting on the job all day idling. Fleet manger still swore gas was better.

If anyones in need of a newer work truck look in DFW or Houston. Lots of rust free some pretty clean '13s & '14s gassers work trucks with 100K for $30K. I just couldn't bring myself spend all of our savings or get a loan for a vehicle.
 
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Dozerboy said:
A member asked me what LEDs I used so I'm gonna put up a picture of them. I get them from Ace electronics in Houston http://www.ace4parts.com/. They do ship but they don't have these LEDs on their online store. I used eight of them on my truck 4 in the toolbox and 4 in the bed. If you have a bedliner or a dark colored bed you might want six in the bed if you want a lot of light. If you don't have a bed cover like my work truck then you want to get some good quality LEDs like these that can handle carwashes and being exposed to the elements all the time.

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Could you show the wire routing? and did you tie into the factory bedlight switch?
 
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I hunted for the fuse to tie into for the cargo light, but didn't have much luck. So I tied into the cargo light itself just like I did on my crew cab. Just pull out the light there are three wires a ground, a power for the cargo light, and the power for the brake lights. I tied into the ground and the power and fished my wire to the driver side above the headliner. Remove the interior panel at the back of the cab. Run the wire down and out the cabin vents in between the cabin and the bed. I chose to drill a small hole in the vent on my crew cab which requires removing the vent but my extended cab had open holes in it. Run the wire up between the inter and outer bed panels and out the stake pocket. Then underneath the top of the bed rail put the lights where you want them. Hooking up the lights is cake you just tie into the existing pos and neg pigtails on the LEDs and run them in series. T into your wire at the front of the bed and run the wire across the bed and down the passenger side. I added another T under my toolbox and ran some lights in there too.

I used 2 strand "zipper wire" 18ga. I didn't put all of the wire in split loom just around sharp edges. I used hot glue and cable clamps to secure the wire. Soldered my connections with heat shrink. I hate crimp connections, but if you tape them good they ain't to bad. I'll get some pics up later.


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Not really much to see since I kept most of the wiring tucked out of the way. If there is something you really need to see let me know.

Coming out of the vent in the cab.
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Under the bed rail
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Toolbox
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