Howdy, Mark from SoCal. I've owned a 94 regular cab w/manual everything since it had 8 miles on the odo. All stock except I added AC, bumper and mirror the day I bought it. Now she's got 290K miles. Until this last year she's never had a major repair and very few minor ones. Really, I only replaced the radiator. Funny thing, as I usually engine brake and many of it's miles were a long commute from the mountains to the city and back, it hasn't even used up the original brake pads yet. I checked them at 100K, they were still shiny, 150K a little dust, 200K went to parts store and bought replacement pads, surely by now... Nope, old pads had more meat on them than the new ones did. Amazing truck!
This last year I decided to rebuild the engine. It was beginning to make noises and leak oil from the main seal. So, I went to HF and bought the engine stand and cherry picker and did it. Took a few months as I could only work weekends and evenings on it but I got it done. Now it has about 800 miles on the "new" engine and she's running fine.