Whats the most abusive you've been to your 2nd gen?

Nice! I don’t plan on getting into too too much trouble with this thing but ya never know haha

 

Drove across North Dakota wide open, only stopping for gas. Filled the bed of the truck up and over the roof with tools guns and ammo even had a hitch carrier loaded as far as I could and drove it 1200 miles non-stop.
Drove it through a 4’ of water a long ways. Blew the power steering pump up. Drove it like that for a while. Loaded the bed up to the top with pea rock and blew out both rear wheel seals and bearings, drove it like that a couple thousand miles. Submerged it in a mud hole up past the seats, had to get a hook to get me out and drove it home. Changed the altenator and fluids and is still running fine

 

I drove across SE MI

 

Right after I detailed it including vacuuming the interior. My dog jumped in with sand all her feet with a tennis ball coated with slobber. It was a total mess.

 

Sub...marine.

 

Running my old 07' into the back of an X5....

 

I let the techs at Walmart mount the new tires. Never again...

 

Had a 3 day weekend back in October. Left after work Friday night and Mobbed my 2011 v6 full of hunting gear from Tucson to Pleasanton, Texas in Just over 10 hours (trip app on my phone averaged speed at 94mph), only stopped for gas. Drove it around a wet, muddy, overgrown south Texas ranch, Covered it in mud, killed some hogs and loaded a couple ice chests up, drove home Monday night into Tuesday morning, that trip was right at 11 hours, averaged 87mph (headwind from San Antonio to El Paso) and the truck never missed a beat.

 

I engaged in extracurricular activities with a lady of the night and made my truck watch. Does that count as abusive?

So far the most abuse I've given the truck has been having to pin the throttle going ~25mph uphill when wheeling in the snow, and slamming my wheels into some rocks that were buried. I'm sure I've also hit the bumpstops a few times too.

 

Any damage to report on from any of that? That’s more the kind of abuse mine might take. I don’t tow (Dad has an f150 and brother has a v8 Dakota so why would I tow?) but I do get a lot of snow and have tons of potholes and bumpy trails

 

Took some chunks out of my wheels, but the balance still seems to be the same. No new vibrations. The 6112s I have definitely held up well on that trail.

 

Nothing extreme purposely except maybe trucking 4 of us 1000miles with a week's worth of gear in the bed while pulling a weeks worth of food in a 18 foot boat behind it and the 4 guys totaled around 1100 lbs. Countless times that off-road Pre-runner bottomed out on the stops making for some sore hinnies in the back seat. I also hit a curb HARD twice the 12 years I owned it with my front right wheel, enough that I thought for sure I broke something under there but never hiccupped, took a beatin and kept on tickin.

 

Dang, shows how tough these trucks really are.

 

Nothing too crazy yet. Not sure I can even consider pulling 4500 lbs across country abusive after reading some of these posts. Bravo to yall.

 

I would have shat myself

 

Woooo. Most of these post are to long to read in my current drunken state, I will check back in tomorrow.

 

Hot lapping it at the drag strip and launching in 4Hi. Truck had about 10k miles at the time.

On another occasion, the "AT fluid Temp" went off after hot lapping it at the sand drags. Truck had 80k.

Currently at 197K and no signs of it dying anytime soon.

 

This is a story bout a '79 4-banger ...pulled loaded boat 60miles in the summer heat with no water in the radiator. Was in a hurry to get to the lake for the evening and didn't want to take the time to stop, let it cool down, and add water so just opened the window, turned the heat on high and hung my head out the window. By the time I got done fishing she had cooled and I could put water in for the ride home. Never missed a beat. That's tough. Oh yeah I limited on eyes.

 

I got my 05 2nd gen stuck in quicksand and had to leave it overnight to drain the area. Years later it's now my sons truck and he's had wheel bearing issues that might be a consequence.

 

I'm still gonna Send it