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Need truck help

gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
The Truck is a 2004 GMC sierra. there is a grinding noise coming for the front drivers side wheel. I have changed the wheel bearings, the brake pads and rotors on both wheels. The noise is mostly when you are slowing down or going around a corner. Anyone have any suggestion as to what it ould be?
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've decided to get another 4x4 mini truck beater to leave at our camper just to drive the 5 miles from the camper to the woods. It will have to be road worthy as I will have to drive it 3 hours from our house to the camper one way and back sometimes. If I get a deer I have to go 30 miles to the processor and back on I-10 doing 65 mph or better. It must have a receiver hitch as I need a winch to lift the deer and hogs into the bed of the truck. My question is, in a 3000.00 dollar or less trucks, which of the old beaters and motors are better to look for? It seems they all have 150,000 or more miles on them.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Toyota Tacoma....run forever, will do everything you want and are the best 4wd pick ups for off road use....just sayin [8D] Gonna be tough for $3000 though, anything in that range will probably have 250,000 miles on it...if you could scrape $1000-1500 more together you'd find a world of difference. Here is an example 95 Tacoma 178K asking $4000

    http://richmond.{elsewhere}.org/cto/4900479101.html
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shilowar
    Toyota Tacoma....run forever, will do everything you want and are the best 4wd pick ups for off road use....just sayin [8D] Gonna be tough for $3000 though, anything in that range will probably have 250,000 miles on it...if you could scrape $1000-1500 more together you'd find a world of difference. Here is an example 95 Tacoma 178K asking $4000

    http://richmond.{elsewhere}.org/cto/4900479101.html


    I hate to speed over 3000 on a vehicle that might get driven 200 miles a year and I dont
    Really want to trade in my 1999 f250 two wheel drive on something newer to take to the woods and get scratched up and bloody. That's why I'm looking at a older, beater truck even though it will make our forth vehicle liscensed on the road for just the wife and I and she's retired.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah going to be asking a lot though to get a 4X4 truck with relatively low miles(under 200K), that's dependable for traveling highway speeds and sitting long periods for under $3000. I'm not saying its not possible but I think you're gonna have to do a lot of looking and negotiating!
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    3000 buck truck will get you towed many miles....I bought a jeep for that work,and its the best thing I have done...I also own a 150 Ford 4x4...but use the Jeep for hunting..every thing I have is 4x4...except my '83 Mustang..[:o)]I am having built, a deer and pig loader for the front of my Jeep! I will post pictures when its built..
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For the right amount of $$ I'll let my 1979 F-150 go! 390, mild cam, alum intake, big honkin Holley, 4 speed 4x4 and 3MPG! It's loud too [:D]
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Neighbor has one of the Jap "mini-trucks". You DO NOT want to be on a major hwy with that thing. If you're talking about a small pickup, Ford Rangers and older Chevy S-10's seem to keep going and going(but not at 65 MPH). Keep your expectations reasonable and safe.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,540 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    how about a cheap lawn trailer to put the bloody deer or hog in. And a chainsaw to cut the limbs away from scraping up your ford.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    how about a cheap lawn trailer to put the bloody deer or hog in. And a chainsaw to cut the limbs away from scraping up your ford.


    Would seem a much cheaper and more practical then buying an old vehicle that will sit unmaintained for months at a time.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here ya go, a 1998 Nissan King Cab 4WD for $3200. 138K miles.
    I have the same exact truck, I love old Nissans.



    http://tinyurl.com/nopdqpe
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    An old truck at a camp site abandoned for months at a time. I see some fun for some local kids out looking for something to target shoot during summer vacation.
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    An old truck at a camp site abandoned for months at a time. I see some fun for some local kids out looking for something to target shoot during summer vacation.







    Our fifth wheel camper is kept in a KOA campground all hooked up to use when ever we want to go stay in it.
    I have a chain saw and trailer already and a Polaris ranger but I want to get a dedicated hunting truck.
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  • chris8X57chris8X57 Member Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mid 80's Toyota 4X4 with the 22re engine. The 22re is indestructible.
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  • DPHMINDPHMIN Member Posts: 953 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My 1992 F9rd Ranger has taken me many miles at 70 mph, yet it's perfect for the woods. You can probably get something like that in your price range.
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  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by chris8X57
    Mid 80's Toyota 4X4 with the 22re engine. The 22re is indestructible.

    Known as the indestructible truck all around the world, the only thing better is the same truck with the diesel engine. Top Gear did everything imaginable to try to kill one and it kept running.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPnIpjodA8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnVZXQD5_k

    They even took one to the North Pole:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkvASxfEWQ&list=PLguC2NPqwaAGuCdECO2OM-6oL7nFXonUj
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nissan004.jpg

    Here is my 1998 Nissan King Cab 4WD, 4 cylinder with manual. What a great truck.
    My truck is in really good shape and is worth about $5K. But you could find a beater for $3K.

    I put a quarter million miles on one of these Nissans, it died one night on I 85 in South Carolina when a drunk girl, drag racing, smashed into me, she was doing about 105. I don't know what it would take to make a Nissan die of natural causes.
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a 99 Frontier,4 Cylinder,2 wheel drive,I bought new,put 400,000 miles on,gave to my youngest son,and my mom that thinks she should always have a pick up around in case she needs it,has it now with 500,000+ miles.I replaced the radiator at about 250,000,the water pump at 350,000,alternator at 375,000 and put a junkyard transmission in at little over 400,000.I doubt the newer Nissans still have the same quality since the company was bought by Renault.
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