I am at lost. Another bad luck with my TV

ugh wrote:
Some of you may recall that I totaled my truck on the way to pickup a camper in January. Few moons later, I bought another truck and bought a different camper. Yesterday my wife drove the truck because her car broke down. On the way home, my truck broke down. Yep, you read it right. Both vehicles broke down within two hours. I fixed my wife's car, so she is using that. I don't need my truck as I work from home, but we need it when we go camping.

However, my truck has more serious problem. It blew a spark plug from number 3. I ordered a timesert tool set to fix it. I never done that, I am sure I will be able to fix it as long as nothing fell in the hole.

I am starting to have doubts about my truck. I only had it for 2 months. I put less than 300 miles on it. The truck is primary for pulling our camper. I replaced a lot of warned out parts. I am starting to think that I should sell it and get something that is few years old with a lot less miles. My truck has 160K miles and it was one owner. I could take on another payment, but I don't really want to. that will bite into our play money.

I am curious. Is anyone out there hauling a camper with older and higher mileage truck with no plans to replace it? Should I just risk it? I have three little kids and I would hate to break down in the middle of the highway with the camper in tow. Our first trip this year is 900 miles away and I have not camp with this truck yet.

My camper has a GVWR of 7650 pounds. New 1/2 town truck can two much higher than that. So, I could get a 1/2 ton, but I prefer 3/4 ton as it has higher payload.

Lots of advice but the best was given by Tennessee Nomad,.
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/index.php
These guy will give you all the info you want to make an informed decision.

So here is my 2 cents. around the 2000 model year the Aluminum heads had 4 threads in the plug holes. Yep pukeing up plugs. think around 2002 ford went to 8 threads. Not much improvement. Talking with oldest son, Master Tech around 100 to 125K is wen he sees them come in. Steel insert into an Alum. head problem solved. If insert blows out time for a new head as hole is too big. Not common.
I drive a 1999 F550 with 248K miles and he drives a 2002 F250 with 305K miles. No spark plug issues ever. Of course Both are 7.3 powerstrokes :B