M135
40 gallons gets me about 250 miles so around 6mpg........and I'm City bound so I try to find open stretches to run between 30 and 45mph, which she likes.
Mine does not like red lights.
I'm just 4 seasons and a pile o' miles on the trani that was in mine when I bought it. It improves each time I drive it so I know,,,,, one day.
I just followed the manual and serviced it before I drove it...too much.
If you bought the 54' she would be 60 years old next year and trani parts are ....can we say it....impossible to find. However there will be a handful of guys that will chuckle when they read this because their barns are full of parts......they're just not letting it go yet, but they might ....if they know someone is restoring an M135.
Everything on the truck is 60 years old and what we decided to do was replace or at least remove, clean, inspect and preserve every part that stops and steers the truck.
If you're mechanically comfortable going in knowing it's a 60 year old truck that might need a tear down or the trani might fail at some point then you'll have a great time with it until that happens. I carry a credit card and have wreckers on speed dial in case she breaks in a bad spot.
The trucks are a lot of fun to wheel around in once the mechanical is 100% but servicing and maintaining is what keeps the tie-rod ends on...... and every 60 year old truck
still on the road deserves a lot of attention..... not to mention a truck who's history could only be imagined. Metal fatigue means frame cracks or exploding parking brake drums might stop a good trani.
My latest purchase was 1 1/2 gallons low on trani fluid and it was thought the trani was bad because they did not properly check the level. It's good you're getting to know the truck,,,,,,,, before you buy....
It's addictive so be careful.....Beautiful aren't they?
