300,000 mile club

[OldCracker29]

I'll hit this milestone on my way home from work today. All I've done is normal maintenance and changed the oil every 5,000 miles. I did have the transmission tuned to get rid of the TC shudder. I also have the pig oil sprayed every October and there's no rust. Hopefully she'll serve me well for a few more years.

 

[kennythewelder]

I'll hit this milestone on my way home from work today. All I've done is normal maintenance and changed the oil every 5,000 miles. I did have the transmission tuned to get rid of the TC shudder. I also have the pig oil sprayed every October and there's no rust. Hopefully she'll serve me well for a few more years.

What year is your truck, and what size engine. C1500?

 

[Kennyray]

I believe he has a 2011 with a 6.0

 

[OldCracker29]

What year is your truck, and what size engine. C1500?

Ken's right. It's a 2011 Silverado 2500HD with the 6.0L and the 6L90 transmission. The pig now has 300,027 miles on it.

 

[kennythewelder]

Ken's right. It's a 2011 Silverado 2500HD with the 6.0L and the 6L90 transmission. The pig now has 300,027 miles on it.

I'm not there yet, but I'm not to far behind you. I have a 97 C1500, with a Vortec 5.7L. I have 268,000 on it now. I rebuilt the rear end, with an Eaton truetrack and 373s, then a week later blew up the 4L60E trans. Had it performance rebuilt. That was about 2 years ago. It may take me a while to hit the 300,000 mile mark now that I retired, last February. I bought the truck used in 2002 with 85,000 on it.

 

[Black02Silverado]

So how is it being in the 300k club? Taking care of it like you do and it will last a long time.

 

[OldCracker29]

So how is it being in the 300k club? Taking care of it like you do and it will last a long time.

It is the first vehicle I've had that reached 300K. As long as I'm able to keep up maintenance on it I think I will get a lot more miles out of the pig.

 

[OldCracker29]

The pig is a few hundred miles shy of 310K. It sat for a little over a month back in December of last year, and January of this year.