Posted by JD Seller on December 28, 2013 at 19:56:08 from (208.126.196.144):
I am not a Ford person. The first car I personally owned was a Ford 1969 Galaxy 500 convertible. Dad had a Ford F150 with a 302 automatic at the same time. They both where terrible vehicles. The car would not start hot. So if you drove it to town you had better need to do something for more than an hour or it would not restart. Spent a lot of money and time an no one could make it start hot. Dad's pickup would plug up the valve drains so bad that you could not even see the rocker arms for the crud covering them. Then it would leak the oil out on to the manifolds. It did not even have 60K on it when the motor would barely run.
So I have owned Dodge or Chevy since then and mostly Chevy.
Around the first of December a friend called me about his pickup truck. It is a 2000 F350 crew cab dually, 4x4, 7.3 diesel, automatic trans. It has about 130K on it for miles. IT will barely pull itself on level ground. HE wanted me to look at it for him. He had replaced the turbo and a dealer installed all new injectors. I told him I did not know anything about it but he brought it out. I looked it over and I think the inter cooler is plugged up with oil from the bad turbo. HE was done with spending any more money on it. So we got in a trading deal on an old tractor he wanted. Long story short I now own a Ford F350 dually. I have about $4000 in it. I hope it has nothing major wrong with it. If it does I will part it out.
Friday a fellow that is kind of a the neighborhood "hired hand" came out to see me. He is a nice fellow with a lunatic wife that keeps him broke all of the time. He is not the smartest out of the blocks but will give you a good days work at anything he can do. He had a problem he needed some "help' on. His 1990 Ford Ranger pickup had reverse go out of it. It is a 2.9 V-6 motor with an automatic transmission. He does not have the money to repair it. He wanted to borrow $400 so he could go buy a Chevy S-10 he had found. He had some of the money but not all of it. His Ford ranger is an extended cab one with a pretty good body for its age. It is 2wd. So long story short I gave him $400 for it. That got him enought to get him the S-10.
The Ranger starts and runs great and the interior in in fairly good shape. The bed is super straight with zero rust. The left cab corner has a small rust hole but the right is solid. Heck the AC still works on it.
So now I have two "FORD" projects setting here. LOL The wife is teasing me about starting a "JUNK" yard as I now have 3-4 pickups that I have to get running.
The F350 might be a good trailer pulling truck if I can figure out the low power and white smoke issue. The long wheel base and dual rear wheels would ride nice on the road.
The Ranger may be a fixer upper. I think a good running small pickup should be worth $1000-1500. I am wondering what a used automatic would be for one of these??? I am guessing $250-300, used cash and carry. Then some labor for a trans change. Some cheap tires and then either sell it or just keep it for a cheap parts/farm shuttle truck. If your dirty and need to go to town for parts, jump in. Need to go to the farm/field and bring back some equipment an just leave it there until you can get help to go pick it up. If some one does something to it your not out much.
So here I am "collecting" pickups. LOL
IF the repairs on either one get too expensive I will just part the diesel out. The engine and drive line will bring what I have in it as cores. The Ranger will bring what I have in it as scrap at the metal yard.
I do have them parked out of view from the road. The local Ford guys would really rag on me about having TWO Fords on the place. LOL
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