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Old 03-27-2014, 07:08 PM
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Truck update started working really hard on 97 Ford F 150 4 wheel drive 5.4 liter whent to change the gas tank out seen piece of aluminum foil attached to top of tank when pulling tank down bottom of cab fell apart literally never seen this happen before previous owner figure out a way to sculpt aluminum foil to under carriage too hid rust with undercoating. what a mess never seen this before even had wrapped around parts of frame that had cancer great 2400 down the grey drain . And not to mention the biggest headache of them all exhaust manifold driver side passenger side welded to the Y pipe no bolts manifold leak somehow they tried tried to weld several of the bolts on manifold screwed me anybody near Wheeling West Virginia need the parts truck it has new brakes new exhaust cat back clock spring battery everything works good new brake lines and gas tank

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Its very hard to read this with no "." Anywhere.
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Truck update started working really hard on 97 Ford F 150 4 wheel drive 5.4 liter "whent to change the gas tank out seen piece of aluminum foil attached to top of tank "when pulling tank down bottom of cab fell apart literally. never seen this happen before previous owner figure out a way to sculpt aluminum foil to under carriage too hid rust with undercoating. what a mess never seen this before :even had wrapped around parts of frame that had cancer . great 2400 down the grey drain . And not to mention the biggest headache of them all. exhaust manifold driver side. passenger side .welded to the Y pipe no bolts manifold leak somehow they tried tried to weld several of the bolts on manifold :screwed me anybody near Wheeling West Virginia need the parts truck it has new brakes new exhaust cat back clock spring battery everything works good new brake lines and gas tank[
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Sorry about your luck. Not to make an example of you, but this is why people need to really do a good inspection of EVERYTHING before buying a vehicle, or if they aren't sure, have someone else look at it. Anyway, good luck with the situation. ...and not to bitch, but proper grammar and use of English makes things much easier to read and understand.
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Not making excuses I made a mistake learn life lessons whatever I try to add grammar phone kicks to this layout spell check trying to correct it if I don't get rid of the truck I will rebuild they say it can't be done I'm stubborn in that way
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just bought my 03 screw on craigslist but my is damn near close to immaculate (knocks on wood.) everyone that's looked at it says I made out like a bandit. I guess its just hit and miss because for the most part if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any at all.

Sorry to hear that though.
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Originally Posted by jmplants
Not making excuses I made a mistake learn life lessons whatever I try to add grammar phone kicks to this layout spell check trying to correct it if I don't get rid of the truck I will rebuild they say it can't be done I'm stubborn in that way
Looks like the beginning of a frame off restoration, be sure to make a build thread. But yeah, I understand the phone grammar, mine does the same thing sometimes, some people just don't care or pay attention though. Just didn't want you to think im trying to be an a**hole.

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Lol just waiting on a certain someone to make a comment everybody knows his name
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I also got screwed. I bought my truck and changed the oil within the first few days. A week later it was making a horrible sound and I pulled over checked the fluid levels and I discovered that the oil was dry as a bone. It was too late engine was running extremely low compression on 5 cylinders
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That really sucks you put allot into fixing that truck up just to have that happen I know the feeling though kinda had the same thing happen with my 00 except engine problems instead of rust it really sucks


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