MTGunNut

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/car/265911338.html

I really want a truck to fix up. Cummins or nothing. Im not gonna "bomb" it just try to get the engine to run the same tq/HP as my dads '04.5. So, should I buy this as my first diesel?

runamuk

I'd personally hang for a 4x4 but the price is right. Check Craigslist Sacramento for the $1800.00 5.9 from a 93 with 86k miles on it.

Rick

MoparMarv

Looks like the year is wrong or someone changed the grill.

90firstgen

Yeah definately wrong year, unless someone removed the intercooler setup and put a non-i/c style grill on

bgilbert

The whole body is 90 and earlier, not just the grill. I wouldn't buy it, something's not right.

dpuckett

I think it's at least worth a look. People get the years of their vehicles mixed up all the time. My mom cant remember if hers is a 91 or 93 lot of the time (it's a 92). Most people see the square body style and slap a early 90s number to it. Only thing you have to lose is a littke time and fuel money.

DP

MTGunNut

If you look real close, you can see the pumpkin.
So its 4x4.

bgilbert

Sorry but it's not a 4wd. I can tell simply by the lack of a lockout hub on the front axle, the lack of 'Power Ram' emblem on the side and if you look close enough, the lack of a pumpkin. Plus what you think you see is the pumpkin, 1st gens have the front axle pumpkin on the passenger side, not the driver side.

MTGunNut

oh, ok.
I dont like that truck anymore.

bgilbert

Yeah if it was a 4wd for that price, it'd be a decent deal. But it's just a run of the mill beater 2wd $1500 truck.

Begle1

It took me 4 months to find a single Cummins anything below $4,000.

If it's an Arizona truck, undamaged, unrusted, straight, strong and with a new injection pump, it's well worth $2,500 due to rarity alone. He could get $3,500 out of it in these parts, sky's the limit if it's super clean.

olddodgetrucks

2500 is a steal look on e/bay any real beat up rust bucket goes for well over that a no rust gasser is worth that.Ist gen are getting to be worth more than 2nd gen if they are mint.