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Old 12-13-2015, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Landon Ryan
I am just so stuck financially. My back is broke in 3 places, I'm close to being paralyzed, I can't work a job, because they can't accommodate my disabilities, and I have nothing to fall back on. I was just hoping to have a truck strong enough to take cars to the scrap yard to try and support my family. I use to have a car, but I bought this truck for $600 and got it running really well for only $300, then I sold my car for $1700. I just feel stuck and don't know what to do. I was hoping that this truck could do more.
While I admire your initiative, rethink your plan and look for other opportunities. Scrapping cars or anything else is hard physical work, and not for the weak of back. I just loaded a full pickup truck-load of scrap corrugated steel at one of our farm sites today, and I am sore! While a winch would help, there are flat tires, cars stuck in the weeds and mud, and even hitching up the trailer means physical bending and activity.
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Originally Posted by smokeywren
Not the entire diff - just the ring gear and pinion parts inside the diff.


About $210 for the generic parts to go to a 4.11 axle ratio. More for Ford OEM parts or name-brand aftermarket parts. 4.11 ratio should be plenty to drag a 6,000-pounds trailer with your F-150. Here's one source:
http://www.ringpinion.com/b2c/Produc...rce=DiffWizard
Thank you so much for the information.

Originally Posted by Velosprout
While I admire your initiative, rethink your plan and look for other opportunities. Scrapping cars or anything else is hard physical work, and not for the weak of back. I just loaded a full pickup truck-load of scrap corrugated steel at one of our farm sites today, and I am sore! While a winch would help, there are flat tires, cars stuck in the weeds and mud, and even hitching up the trailer means physical bending and activity.
I know it is, but when I take my Norco 7.5-325, Diazepam 10mg, Phentermine 37.5mg, and Klonopin 1mg, I can do pretty well if I take it slow and steady. I worked on my transmission today, replaced the wheel bearings and brakes the day before, repaired someone who was in need, and had a broken window assembly and motor, and the day before that I replaced a tension pulley and EGR valve on my truck. Even though my back is broke in three places and I have severe nerve radiculopathy and cervical root disorder that is making me borderline paralyzed, I still work. If I can stoop over my truck, bend over again and again, crawl from underneath my truck again and again, I know I can scrap cars. Now if I don't have my prescribed meds, then that is a different story. I was bedridden 4 months ago, and was so for 7 years and I am not going back, and I know that I just need to keep moving. I've explored so many things that I could possibly do in the area that I live in, but scrapping cars is the only thing I could come up with. If I can scrap 20-30 cars, then I can buy a wrecker and start doing some towing too. I am determined.



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