I'm selling my minivan and getting back into a truck, since my kids are getting old! I recently bought a 2000 F150 super cab 4X4 with a 4.6L engine (Greeny). This truck is mechanically sound, but needs body work, and a different bed. So I bought another truck, a 2000 F150 super cab with a 5.4L engine, engine is blown, but truck is in way better shape than my first purchase. Second truck just had transmission replaced with a 140,000 mile tranny. I bought the second truck just for the bed and tailgate, and they are in really good condition. The overall condition of the second truck (Big Red) is hands down better than the first truck I bought.

So, would you just replace the motor in the second truck and sell the first one I bought? Or use the bed and tailgate from second truck and install on first truck (green truck).

First truck: Green, with 190,000 miles, paid $2000. Second truck, Red with 200,000 miles, paid $750. Big Red has brand new tires, P285 70R 17's Cooper Discoverers.

Greeny just pulled Big Red on a trailer for 150 miles. She's ugly, but tough.

I found a website with used motors, gotengines.com, (Same as Engine and Transmission World, and SW Engines), for $1800. This engine, with 74,000 miles, comes with a 3 year unlimited mileage warranty. So, for another $1100 in labor to install the motor, I can have a really nice truck for under 4 Grand. Or, I could buy a 5.4 from a local junk yard with 110,000 miles on it for $1100. Decisions, decisions. What would you do?

 

There are many factors, you can't ask us to make that decision. It seems like a neutral field. Each truck has its own little things, I think you already know, you just want another person to confirm you made the right decision. Ignore me if I'm wrong here, but that's my 2 cents.

 

Oh my gosh. The bed and door cancer is real with the green truck.

 

You really like that picture don't you...

 

 

 

haha

 

Well...Big Red is cosmetically better from your pics. It has tires that I just installed on mine. The green one has terminal cancer...any questions? The green truck might be handy for parts, but I doubt it.

 

I really like that color green!! shame to see the cancer it has.

 

i would just replace the motor in the red truck if it were me, cosmetically it looks to have no damage and plus it has a rebuilt transmission which is a good one. then you could either keep the green truck for spare things, or just to have another truck, or sell it to get some money back. or if you didnt want to spend any (or very little) money, and had a lot of time and the tools necessary, you could just pull the body from the red one and put it on to the frame of the green one

then you would have a really nice truck for under 3 grand