Well, normally. I read a lot of horror stories about piston slap on the chevys along with AFM issues causing all sorts of expensive problems. Did some research on the fords, looks like the 3valve/cylinder have a fair share of issues. Ended up with a 4.6 2valve. Got a heck of a deal on it at a state government surplus auction yesterday. It was a government fleet/lease, until it hit 100k, then offered for sale. 110k on the clock. It had steel 17s, I found some 20s from a 2010 today and slapped em on. It still needs a windshield, plugs, rotors and alignment but otherwise an awesome deal even being a "base model".
After driving it home after a 2 hour detail session, as you can see it barely fits in the garage.
Pretty clean for 110k:
Steel rims, crappy looking bumper and grill, may replace those if I find a chrome set for a good price:
Still pretty clean after I washed the 6 years worth of dirt and grime off:
Not really used "as a truck" looking at the bed
And after I put some 20s on it today, huge improvement:
