[kidwoo]

Truck prices on the west coast are stupid so I'm looking at a few bro dozers where a lot of you folks are. Yes there's that much of a difference.

I need Maverick. Or Goose. Or fuck it, even Ms Daisy would do. Mostly just someone to drive a truck up to 70mph and see if it vibrates, tell me if it smells like cigarette smoke, and look for a rusted frame. These are work trucks I'm going to be changing a lot of stuff out on so I just need unbroken.

Prizes include:
booze
weed (pretty sure we can mail it from CA now)
More realistically I'll just give you some money or something.


First up, anyone live anywhere near:
Chatham, MA
St Albans, VT (canadian monkeys welcome)

 

[chuffer]

Chatham, MA means that frame rust was included standard from the dealer. Not an option, but standard... I am always horrified at the amount of rust on Cape Cod vehicles that are only a few years old.

 

[jonKranked]

you lost us at bro dozer

 

[jonKranked]

but agree with chuffer's comment - anything more than a couple years old from New England is gonna have rust.

 

[kidwoo]

Chatham, MA means that frame rust was included standard from the dealer. Not an option, but standard... I am always horrified at the amount of rust on Cape Cod vehicles that are only a few years old.

Hence the thread. These are fairly low mile trucks.


Jon: See when one lives thousands of feet above sea level, internal combustion motors aren't that strong. So hauling two snowmobiles, plus two people plus gear up 20% grades requires more than what my prius can handle.

 

[roflbox]

considered NC? brodozer country here

 

[SkaredShtles]

Hence the thread. These are fairly low mile, rust-infected (that you can't see yet) trucks.

Fixed.

Have you checked for prices in Arizona, New Mexico and perhaps the deep-south as @roflbox suggests?

 

[kidwoo]

I am literally looking over the entire country. I'm not honing in on new england at all. That would be stupid since it's the farthest away from where I live that one can possibly get.

But I'm looking for a truck with a plow prep package. So new england trucks are what pops up.

 

[stevew]

considered NC? brodozer country here

i saw a tundra all pre runnered/long travelled out ready to jump some sweet dunes....if only charlotte had dunes....

 

[SkaredShtles]

I am literally looking over the entire country. I'm not honing on on new england at all. That would be stupid since it's the farthest away from where I live that one can possibly get.

But I'm looking for a truck with a plow prep package. So new england trucks are what pops up.

Ah... yeah. You ain't gonna find many of those in New Mexico.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

considered NC? brodozer country here

No doubt. Nor Cack would be the perfect place to get a non rusted bro dozer since the roads get salted less than a dozen times a winter. I’d love to send one of them your way.

 

[Nick]

they don't use salt in CO ... what make/model are you shopping for?

 

[kidwoo]

they don't use salt in CO ... what make/model are you shopping for?

2008 or newer chevy/gmc 2500 gas, 4wd, preferably 3.73 axle ratio, the extended cab/double cab thing, NOT a crew cab preferably.

Either bed size but preferably the 6.5'


They use that brine spray stuff out there right? It's the same as here. It's salt. It's just not the straight rock salt shit they use in the northeast.


The truck in northern VT was a canadian truck. I have no idea what they do with the roads in quebec. Probably cigarette ash.

 

[SkaredShtles]

they don't use salt in CO ... what make/model are you shopping for?

Actually, mag chloride *is* a salt.

But I suspect you knew that.

 

[jonKranked]

what's your budget?

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[Toshi]

2008 or newer chevy/gmc 2500 gas, 4wd, preferably 3.73 axle ratio, the extended cab/double cab thing, NOT a crew cab preferably.

Either bed size but preferably the 6.5'


They use that brine spray stuff out there right? It's the same as here. It's salt. It's just not the straight rock salt shit they use in the northeast.


The truck in northern VT was a canadian truck. I have no idea what they do with the roads in quebec. Probably cigarette ash.

Hire an auto broker. https://automatchconsulting.com/

 

[StiHacka]

Chatham, MA

Gonna be a biatch for someone not already there because 1/2 of Boston is already there and the other 1/2 is driving there this weekend.

 

[kidwoo]

Hire an auto broker. https://automatchconsulting.com/

That's my next step. First I just thought I'd see if I have any friends here.

 

[dan-o]

2008 or newer chevy/gmc 2500 gas, 4wd, preferably 3.73 axle ratio, the extended cab/double cab thing, NOT a crew cab preferably.

Either bed size but preferably the 6.5'


They use that brine spray stuff out there right? It's the same as here. It's salt. It's just not the straight rock salt shit they use in the northeast.


The truck in northern VT was a canadian truck. I have no idea what they do with the roads in quebec. Probably cigarette ash.

Pretty sure the 6.0 gas only comes with a 4.10 ratio. Which you’ll be happy for in the hills.

A super duty with the 6.2 is worth a look. I’d get the 4.30 but they’re rare so most have 3.73. Engines been dead reliable, better mpg that my 6.0 Chevy got and the ford is holding up to the salt much better than the GM wax dipped frame. Plus the bed is larger.

Nearly all are HD trucks ordered with plow prep around here but a ford ‘severe duty front end’ package is the same thing. The GM ifs wore out in both my chevys (gas and diesel).

 

[dan-o]

Chatham, MA means that frame rust was included standard from the dealer. Not an option, but standard... I am always horrified at the amount of rust on Cape Cod vehicles that are only a few years old.

Driving on the beach or too far down the boat ramp will do that. My friend backed one of my trucks into the ocean until the bed was submerged ‘so you you row the dinghy right in’. Sold that one the next day.

 

[kidwoo]

Pretty sure the 6.0 gas only comes with a 4.10 ratio. Which you’ll be happy for in the hills.

A super duty with the 6.2 is worth a look. I’d get the 4.30 but they’re rare so most have 3.73. Engines been dead reliable, better mpg that my 6.0 Chevy got and the ford is holding up to the salt much better than the GM wax dipped frame. Plus the bed is larger.

Nearly all are HD trucks ordered with plow prep around here but a ford ‘severe duty front end’ package is the same thing. The GM ifs wore out in both my chevys (gas and diesel).

For the price range I'm looking for that puts me in the death wobble years of the f250s. We had one at work and it's a very real thing. You can see all the front end work done on some of the carfaxes from that 2009-2012 range. I'm not fucking with it. If our work truck hadn't been under warranty we'd have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on that trying to fix it. Now the transmission isn't shifting correctly on a truck with 70k on it. Agree on the 6.2 motors though. Those things are beasts. It's everything else that's the problem.

Chevys do have a 3.73 gear box. It's a thing.

3.73 vs 4.10

I am looking at ordering a sierra 2500 w/ 6.0. I am trying to decide between a 3.73 and 4.10. Is there a big difference between MPG between them? With a 6 speed trans is it that much of a difference at highway speeds with engine rpm's? I am coming from a 1500 silverado 5.3/3.42/4 spd trans so at ...

www.gm-trucks.com

 

[wiscodh]

I am literally looking over the entire country. I'm not honing in on new england at all. That would be stupid since it's the farthest away from where I live that one can possibly get.

But I'm looking for a truck with a plow prep package. So new england trucks are what pops up.

Yeah, in VT they spray a liquid salt onto the roads before the snow flys. Then they salt after the snow lands, then they salt after the plows go thru.,,,,, Just pass. There's a reason the prices are lower. Everything will rust from NE

 

[Jm_]

Fun fact, even if they don't lay the salt down on the roads, the private businesses often do, contracting for removal services that spray a metric ton of salt (well, probably more) on all sorts of private parking lots. Chances are, wherever you pull in to park, is salt.

 

[dan-o]

Chevys do have a 3.73 gear box. It's a thing.

3.73 vs 4.10

I am looking at ordering a sierra 2500 w/ 6.0. I am trying to decide between a 3.73 and 4.10. Is there a big difference between MPG between them? With a 6 speed trans is it that much of a difference at highway speeds with engine rpm's? I am coming from a 1500 silverado 5.3/3.42/4 spd trans so at ...

www.gm-trucks.com

Learn something every day.
My 6.0 had the 4.10 and given the engine characteristics they’d still be my choice especially if running anything larger than stock 245s.

 

[kidwoo]

The funny thing is the plow prep trucks only show up in the midwest a little bit, and then mostly in the northeast.

Not because it snows the most, but because it snows the least and a truck plow is actually functional. Very few people use those things out here because they don't do shit. You need real equipment out here.

But for my driveway and making some winter recreation parking it'll do.

I highly doubt the salt situation is any different anywhere it snows these days. Everyone's using the same shit it seems. It's just the freezing rain component in the NE makes it more serious and regular.

So no one lives near either of these places? I really didn't want to tap into the skier network but I guess I'll have to.

 

[jdcamb]

Balise Ford Wilbraham MA. They should be able to help you.

 

[Jozz]

The truck in northern VT was a canadian truck. I have no idea what they do with the roads in quebec. Probably cigarette ash.

We use poutine sauce powder.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

You want my 2012 Express AWD van.

 

[jdcamb]

You want my 2012 Express AWD van.

Yes I do.

 

[kidwoo]

You want my 2012 Express AWD van.

Show me a picture of two snowmobiles in the back and we'll talk.

Yes I do.

creep

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Yes I do.

Time is short... the F2CA4X is about to appear...

 

[jdcamb]

Time is short... the F2CA4X is about to appear...

Currently looking for a place to live. Cannot accept that challenge.

 

[Westy]

The funny thing is the plow prep trucks only show up in the midwest a little bit, and then mostly in the northeast.

Not because it snows the most, but because it snows the least and a truck plow is actually functional. Very few people use those things out here because they don't do shit. You need real equipment out here.

But for my driveway and making some winter recreation parking it'll do.

I highly doubt the salt situation is any different anywhere it snows these days. Everyone's using the same shit it seems. It's just the freezing rain component in the NE makes it more serious and regular.

So no one lives near either of these places? I really didn't want to tap into the skier network but I guess I'll have to.

Have you looked in the Mid Atlantic? In Virginia an F250 is a minimum requirement unless you are some lib-fag. Plenty of plow trucks as it doesn't snow enough for any real organization to invest in snow removal but when it does every redneck with a plow can double their annual income plowing lots and gated communities.

 

[eric strt6]

I bought my brodozer from these guys and had it shipped to my front door. No regrets

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[kidwoo]

Does anyone live near chatham, MA or st Albans Vt?

 

[StiHacka]

Does anyone live near chatham, MA or st Albans Vt?

Define "near".
Chatham:

St. Albans:

 

[jonKranked]

i'm going to st albans, ME this weekend.

 

[Westy]

Have you considered a mule team?

Trained bears?

Can you angle grind away the snow?

 

[Westy]

Are running boards needed or do you plan on deploying a rope ladder?

 

[maxyedor]

What's the story with Chevy plow packages, aren't they usually just a heavier front spring-rate and a wire-harness? Seems easy enough to add to any truck, and would open up the field to non New England trucks, potentially even rust free ones.

Currently looking for a place to live. Cannot accept that challenge.

He's got a van for sale, and you need a place to live, sounds like it was meant to be.