Thu Mar 13 2025 14:57:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
April 2024 Car is my daily driver. It has over 363,xxx miles on it. A rear shock blew out, so i replaced both rear shocks. Car sucessfully made a round trip to michigan; burnt through 4 quarts of oil in the process. Its been making long trips for work just fine as long as the oil is tended to. I do need to replace a pully soon, drivers window regulator and the fuel tank leaks. I have to drive it 6 hours to do my work tomorrow.
May 2024 - I changed 1st o2 sensor, air filter, drivers window regulator. Cleaned interior, waxed paint. 367,xxx miles.
June 2024 - disabled automatic and daytime running lights. Installed shorter belt disabling the powersteering pump in hopes of getting better fuel mileage. belt tentioner broke, yay!
July 2024 - Passed 370,000 miles last week. fuel tank leak. door latch broke while on camping trip
August 2024 - replaced rear brake shoes, drums, and springs. completed 2 road trips to pittsburg and central ohio with no issues. spray painted roof flat white, fixed light scratches and waxed. both rear tires are bald. one rear tire had broken belt/s . Just noticed steering collum is loose.375,000 miles! a tree fell on the car and dented the trunk, rear quarter panel, roof, chipped the paint and broke a brake light.
September 2024 - 4 new tires $180 total. put them on myself switched to steelies for winter. A friend balanced them for free. Thanks!
November 2024 - Recently completed a ~1,800 road trip. Got pulled over for broken tail light. covered with red dollar tree tape. Ended up replacing 2 front brakepads and a rotor on the trip.
December 2024 - Replaced leaky fuel tank , Patched leaky fuelline, replaced rear trans/engine mount which required dropping subframe, replaced sparkplugs, replaced temp sensor but new temp sensor is bad too! Replaced a few hoses for evap and vaccum. Replaced lead exhaust gasket now car is quiet. I hear a small noise from engine. I hope it just needs a valve adjustment... 382,000 miles
March 2025 - 386,000 miles. valve noise, annoying broken door handle. still driving.
August 2022 - Top mpg so far is 21.5 I haven't been able to do any better.
June 2022 - 224,XXX miles Needs brake pads, blower motor, and vacume leak fixed. Otherwise doing good. 18-21 mpg so far.
July 2022 Went to replace brake pads and found out one of the pins in front passenger brake was rusted stuck and the caliper was bad. replaced front brake pads and front passenger rotar. Took a 500+ mile trip this past weekend it did fine. need to change oil and fix vacuume leak.
September 2023 Its still my daily driver. It has over 257,000 miles on it now. Since last update i have rebuilt front suspention, replaced more wheel bearings, belt pullies, general tuneup. The best mpg i have gotton so far is 21.85 mpg. Can i make it to 22mpg?? I regurally get 20.5 mpg if i don't use a lead foot.
November 2023 Truck is still going. Still haven't been able to do any better than 23mpg
January 2024! Truck got rear ended last month at 263,xxx miles. Insurance company calls it a total loss, totaled! BUT its not the end for this truck. Time to rebuild! 1999 corolla is currently my daily driver.
April 2024 Truck is still being rebuilt from getting rear ended. frame was badly bent at the rear and the bed hit and dented the cab of the truck. The rear bumper was destroyed. the impact of the crash caused my middle rear view mirror to fall off and bent the back of the drivers seat. So far we have straightened the frame. While the bed was off i painted the rear half of the frame. Also we started on fixing the body work. Soon it will get painted. The truck is getting lowered. I really need to add photos.
May 2024 lowered rear of truck 4 inches. currently lowering the front of the truck.
July 2024 - waiting on a rebuilt title from the government. Truck is almost ready to be driven now.
August 2024 - Rebuilt title is approved by government and its street legal now. I Can drive it again. Blew fuse in radio and 2 fuses for amplifier. Still needs some body work and finish painting. may notch the rear frame for more suspention travel. repaired body areas primered
September 2024 - block sanding the bed getting it ready to be repainted
November 2024 - Mostly finished. Its painted and back together. I drove it to work today. The truck is now blue. Traded my s10 for the paintjob and body work.
March 2025 - 26x,xxx miles. Has been sitting most of the winter. I don't want road salt to rust it out. Replaced rear brakepads. Also relpaced a few wheel studs and lugnuts that a local repair shop messed up. (if you want it done right, do it yourself!)
I need to find a wiring harness and a engine computer for a 1UZ-FE engine. Not much progress has been made so far. June 2022-the ae86 is still waiting January 2024 I am on the hunt for more parts for this car. Last year i dumped oil in the top of the engine. nothing else has been done.
April 2024 traded a scooter for a manual transmission for this car. paper work is mostly done for the title! yay!
march 2025 - found a much needed rear shock mount. Planning on moving my car to my house to start on it soon.
Need to take a picture of it
Plan on finishing this truck come spring. Have a bit of work to do to it still. Needs brake lines, interior put back together, water pump, and what ever odds and ends. It will be a nice truck once its done. This truck is a pain in the butt.
March 2022: Almost ready to be on the road.If it would just stop being a pain in the butt, i could be driving it!
May 2022: Slowly making progress
June 2022 Its running and driving but it isn't finished yet still have to fix a few things. Stuff i've replaced so far... Starter, battery, water pump, brakelines, abs box, sparkplugs, wires, distrubuter stuff, tires, lugnuts, wheel studs, most of the interior, and maybe more. Security system has been disabled. Still not finished yet.
September 2023 I still have this turd but I want to get rid of it. It runs and drives but i don't ever drive it.
January 2024 Truck is parked in garage. I did some work on it last year. I drove it once and it ran pretty good. I just bought some new shocks for it. I won't be driving it until it gets warmer
April 2024 I just had the truck started yesterday and i drove it out of the garage. It seems be running pretty good. I need to fix some wiring under the bed, put new shocks on it and a few other things. I plan on finally driving it this year.
May 2024 currently replacing shocks but keep breaking bolts. Need to fix somewiring and then i may start driving it.
June 2024 - found more interior parts at the junk yard. The interior is nearly complete. Also have a new wiring harness for the tail lights. Shocks are not finished yet. I broke more bolts including 2 U-bolts!
august a tree fell on the truck and damaged it. more info soon when i get timeNovember 2024 - SOLD actually it was traded in exchange for body work and paint job for my dodge dakota. Last 2 times i drove it, the transmission started leaking and the heater quit working.
UPDATE September 2023! I have located my old f150. Its been sitting at a auto repair place a few miles away from my home. It hasn't been touched in over a year ;(
April 2024 Truck still sits at the auto repair place untouched.
September 2023! My friend is still driving this car and the car is doing fine. I think he only had to repalce the radiator and tighten transmissin cooling line. Pretty soon it will reach 200,000 miles! I need to get a picture of it.
January 2024 He hasn't reached 200k yet he is at 190,xxx miles
June 2024 The car has passed 200,000 miles! Needs new sway bar linkages and a few other things. Its still his daily driver.
september 2024 car reached 204,000miles. he says he has to add a little transmission fluid in it every few months. car is still doing good.
March 2025 - CRASHED. TOTALED. The driver of the car is ok but this is the end for the Chrysler 300m.
Here are some other websites you may find helpful.
Paulstravelpictures - How to's for basic car maintaince, home and more.
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