Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
03-18-2008, 06:36 AM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
232k no rebuild, forgot to mention that. can anyone beat that??original motor, i know cus it has flat top pistons:P saw them when i did my head gasket. and only 86 has flats
03-18-2008, 02:18 PM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
I baby mine for the most part, just turned to 88,000 miles yesterday, Its my first car ever and I've owned it a little over a year now and its been a great car, very reliable and it runs stupid hard.
The ONLY thing I've had to replace was the master cylinder.
The ONLY thing I've had to replace was the master cylinder.
03-18-2008, 05:30 PM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
Mine has appoximatly 190k and still goin. Its gotta little miss but other then that it runs like a top starts up after 2weeks in a snowbank absolutly effortless. It rides like a 1976 mac truck but I still love the thing even if it is becoming a money pit. The only thing that broke that surprised me was the tilt column broke while going around a shape curve along a river.....I had to stop and change my pants lol
03-18-2008, 07:05 PM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
Busted steering column? Yikes. At any rate, I'm glad to hear that others are having good reliability out of their cars. I've been drivingmy car almost every day for 2.5 years, and still get excited everytime I pull away in it. My wife wants me to trade it in for a Volvo...to protect the little one(s). I told her I'd buy a Volvo, but that I WON'T sell the GT. She said ok, thank goodness.
03-19-2008, 12:28 AM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
this is my first 5.0 and its got 373s in it im not used to having such a short 1st gear so the first time i romped on it i banged it out a 7k oops never again but she held up like a damn champ. I love this car i should have bought one years ago.Now lets hope i can get my honda loving paul walker of a brother to come to the good side.
03-19-2008, 09:45 AM
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RE: Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?
hhahaa thats hilarious, yea my old 85 gt would ****** dart! id beat the living hell outta it and itd ask for more, the car ran good when driven normaly, but the car just was an unbelieveable performer when i had it WOT all the time, she loved her 87 octane tho....my new 94 is my fav, has all nice power options and is stupid loud....i love it it has 147k on it
and runs strong, the guy b4 me had nitrous on it, so its not runnign 100% but she still goes liek hell, these 5.0's only last if beaten on, i think when driven normally they run liek ***, just me from what ive seen and done...haha.[/align]
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