Need truck advice
.........Just google the timing chain set up and u will see y ppl shy away from the 4.7............I wouldn't buy 1 either....kim...
I have one exactly like the one in you r pic, w/ a few extras. 4.7 w/ 161,000 miles on it. have pulled a heavy car trailer w/o elec. brakes ( a few yrs, "now have them") hauling a hot tubbed-vega, and then a full size 406 s.block GMC pick up. even took the gmc to Joplin, and brought a barracuda back. it has no rust ,except the outer rear fender wells, I just installed covers on them and forgot about them. A mech. friend of mine said that you should run syn. oil in the 4.7 and the hemi. I have occasionally, but refuse to pay the hi price most of the time. I always tow "out of overdrive", and changed oil-filter every 4000-4500 miles. the truck weighs 5400 pounds! is a little under powered, but, I`ve never had but 3 cars that weren`t. ( 2 hemi`s, and my 505" barracuda, "changed the trans fluid and both filters at 116,000 miles, plugs at 119,000 I have had to put front wheel bearings in it, and an ebay radiator, and a rear pinion seal, that's it. average about 15-15 1/2, will get 19 unloaded , on a flat hiway, w/ no headwind. is very dependable, "still has the factory brakes on it !" and , their not worn out! 11"- 4 wheel discs are the best brakes of anything I`ve ever owned. (70 yrs. old, have had a few, and almost always drive faster than the speed limit !) P.S., a friend at church has a 2002 chevy, he has had 3 transmissions, and cab corners, fenderwells, and rocker rust replaced on his. his does have more mileage than mine tho. a lot of my miles in the early yrs. were hiway too.-------------jfyi , hope it helps. bob
