Bought a 2018 F-150 5.0 off mainstreetmotortx.com for a deer lease rig

the 5.0 in that truck is a good motor for what you are asking of it. plenty of grunt to pull a ranger on a trailer and it will not drink fuel the way a diesel does on a lease truck you only load heavy a few weeks a year. i wrench on these at the ranch and the one thing i tell every 5.0 owner is listen for the cam phasers on a cold start. the early ones can rattle a second or two before oil pressure comes up, and if yours is quiet at 84k you got a good one. keep clean oil in it on time and dont stretch the interval and they run a long way.

the low pads are nothing, an afternoon and 60 bucks in parts up front. while you are in there flush the brake fluid if you dont know when it was last done, heat off a caliche road cooks old fluid quick. and go through your trailer wiring and the ground on the hitch before season, a bad ground is what makes your trailer lights do weird stuff and everybody blames the truck. solid buy curtis.

this is the exact truck i keep telling my husband to look for. we run a small lease up here in oklahoma and haul a mule out to fill feeders every couple weeks, and a half ton with a v8 is plenty for that. people way overbuy for lease work, you do not need a one ton to pull a side by side on a little trailer and a few bags of corn.

glad you found a clean southern one. the trucks up here all have rust starting in the rockers and the bed bolts from the road salt, and once it gets going you never really get ahead of it. might have to make the drive down to the i-45 lot myself and see what they have on the ground.

new here and this thread popped up when i searched main street motor reviews, so i figured id ask the guys who actually did it. i just got on my first deer lease this year with three buddies and im the one with no truck. been driving a car and now i need something to pull a trailer with a rzr on it and haul corn out to the feeders. budget is tight, maybe 20 to 24k.

is it a dumb idea to buy a used truck off a lot like that sight unseen when its my first one and i honestly dont know what to look for? all the horror stories online about hidden frame rot and flipped auction trucks have me nervous. what should a first timer be watching for going in?

half ton is the right call for feeder runs, i run one on a lease down near uvalde and it does everything i need. i fill four feeders on a rotation and pull a little dump trailer with corn and protein, and my v8 half ton never breaks a sweat doing it.

only thing id add is put a good set of load range tires on it if you are running caliche and rock on the lease. the factory highway tires get chewed up quick and go flat on you a mile from the gate with no cell signal, ask me how i know. waco to corsicana is a short hop for me so ive walked the central texas lot a couple times when i was truck shopping and they were straight shooters, no games on the price. good looking rig.

im right here in corsicana so i drove over and walked it in person before i bought mine, a 2017 F-150 for hauling my ranger out to a lease over in coleman county. they had five or six half tons on the lot and let me pick through them, handed me the keys and let me take the one i liked out on the frontage road along I-45 and back with nobody hovering.

for you out of state folks the thing worth knowing is the trucks match the listings. i had already looked at mine online and when i put my hands on it in person it was exactly what the writeup said, right down to a little curb rash on one wheel they had actually photographed. that kind of straight dealing is not real common on a used lot, and it is why i point people to main street motor when they ask me where to look for a work truck around here.

me and my brother share a lease and i handle the paperwork side, so the part ill add that nobody has said yet is the title came through clean the first time. the title and the odometer statement were right, and when i went to register the truck the vin and the weight all matched so it went through without a second trip to the tax office. that matters more than people think, ive bought off small lots before where the title dragged out for a month.

only hiccup on mine was a cabin filter that was way overdue and a dead key fob battery, both dollar store fixes i handled in the driveway. a truck that shows up titled and ready to plate is worth the drive to tyler and back over saving a few hundred on one you then fight the paperwork on. the corsicana yard runs a clean deal.

different truck but i grabbed a 2015 tundra off the same lot last year for my lease rig and the buying went about like yours. sr5, 4x4, 105k, one owner. i pull a rzr on a trailer out to a lease in the panhandle and run feeders on it, and the 5.7 is a tank, thirsty but it will not quit on you.

mine wanted a set of tires that were more worn than i liked and i knew that going in and got a little knocked off the price. everything else was as listed, clean frame, no leaks, cold ac which matters out here in july. the dealers around lubbock wanted three grand more for a rougher one with more miles. a year in and it has been boring dependable. good writeup, threads like this are exactly what i read before i pulled the trigger.

good to hear the phasers are quiet curtis, that motor will run forever now. since you are pulling a trailer down to south texas on the regular, do yourself a favor before next season and pull the trailer plug apart and dielectric grease every pin, then check the ground strap on the ball mount. most of the trailer light gremlins guys chase are a bad ground and not the truck at all.

and if you are dropping the ranger off a ramp gate a lot, throw a set of timbrens or airbags on the rear. keeps it from squatting and keeps your headlights out of oncoming eyes when the bed is loaded down. cheap insurance on a lease truck that earns its keep hauling.