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Hey guys, just wanted to check in and say hi while in town from boot camp. I couldn't justify storing the truck at one of your homes or selling it.. So I let my uncle use it for work while i was away. (construction) Well he decided to let a new employee drive it all the way to north dakota without checking the oil or anything and blew it up.. Uncle didn't put insurance on it so i had a dead truck.. Thinking it was the right thing to do he scrapped it and gave me the $453.84 for the scrap price...... Keep in mind i didn't know any of this until yesterday when i returned home. I honestly dropped to my knees. Long story short I am sad to say I have no truck to be part of this family 
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Wow... tough cookies man.. Here you are going off to serve our wonderful country and he blows up your truck and SCRAPS IT!?
IMHO A 7.3 PSD should never be scrapped... unless literally every part has been parted out. There is almost a use for everything on these things.
Man that sucks... I woulda went out and shot his four tires and put a few holes in each end and side of his truck. Then handed him the $453 and say "here I just bought your truck for what its worth...*****"
Sorry dude... but welcome back anywho.
IMHO A 7.3 PSD should never be scrapped... unless literally every part has been parted out. There is almost a use for everything on these things.
Man that sucks... I woulda went out and shot his four tires and put a few holes in each end and side of his truck. Then handed him the $453 and say "here I just bought your truck for what its worth...*****"
Sorry dude... but welcome back anywho.
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Hey guys, just wanted to check in and say hi while in town from boot camp. I couldn't justify storing the truck at one of your homes or selling it.. So I let my uncle use it for work while i was away. (construction) Well he decided to let a new employee drive it all the way to north dakota without checking the oil or anything and blew it up.. Uncle didn't put insurance on it so i had a dead truck.. Thinking it was the right thing to do he scrapped it and gave me the $453.84 for the scrap price...... Keep in mind i didn't know any of this until yesterday when i returned home. I honestly dropped to my knees. Long story short I am sad to say I have no truck to be part of this family
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Wow that's the sadist story I have heard in quite awhile, I feel your pain, ya you have to love family, but that uncle is a real dumb *** and I would just take him off of my will. Glad you survived boot camp but what a thing to come home to.
Glad you survived boot camp but what a thing to come home to.
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That is a seriously screwed up deal! You left him your truck while you were off in the service and let him use it. Sounds to me like time to play hardball. That's now how you treat family. You sure he scrapped the truck and didn't just keep it and pay you the $450 dollars to make you think the truck was gone? He didn't get a very good deal at the scrap yard if that's all he got. Around here scrap yards will pay $250-$275 a ton for scrap and your truck was surely more than 4,000 lbs (2 tons). I am guessing that it would have been more like 3 tons (6k lbs). He either got boned himself and is passing it along to you, or he kept part of the money for himself, or he didn't scrap the truck at all and is hoping you will just forget about it.
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From: Ashland City, TN
I'd be knocking on his door with a shotgun I'd be so pissed.
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That is a seriously screwed up deal! You left him your truck while you were off in the service and let him use it. Sounds to me like time to play hardball. That's now how you treat family. You sure he scrapped the truck and didn't just keep it and pay you the $450 dollars to make you think the truck was gone? He didn't get a very good deal at the scrap yard if that's all he got. Around here scrap yards will pay $250-$275 a ton for scrap and your truck was surely more than 4,000 lbs (2 tons). I am guessing that it would have been more like 3 tons (6k lbs). He either got boned himself and is passing it along to you, or he kept part of the money for himself, or he didn't scrap the truck at all and is hoping you will just forget about it.
Aside from that, it's a 7.3L. How many of us can agree that normally a 7.3L will die and not restart when it gets low on oil before it actually blows from being low on oil. Remember, it's HEUI injected. Usually the injection system will shut down before causing catastrophic engine damage from being low on oil.
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He showed me a picture of the truck scapped.. my umcle took the tires and radio out.. i have a quote from a mechanic statinh what was wrong.. i am reading as i type this. " this truck was ran high rpms for long periods of time, turbo (which was upgraded) failed and caused metal shavings to enter intake. The motor failed. No good parts.
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He showed me a picture of the truck scapped.. my umcle took the tires and radio out.. i have a quote from a mechanic statinh what was wrong.. i am reading as i type this. " this truck was ran high rpms for long periods of time, turbo (which was upgraded) failed and caused metal shavings to enter intake. The motor failed. No good parts.
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Yeah.. i thought i could trust him with my baby. I was told he would only use it for hauling the skidsteer and the mini back how while his cummins was out of commision. I would have been ok wigh the truck as long as he fixed it. He coyld easily buy a new motor and then some.. i finally got this thing started to be tue wa i
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From: Ashland City, TN
That's like the story of when my buddy moved to New Zealand.
He left his Prized GTO at his mom and dads when He sold his house and moved.
They came for dinner in NZ and in the middle of dinner.
"oh, I sold that piece of **** car you were storing in our garage for 800 dollars."
Travis, not all scrap yards have the same rules.
I can take a whole truck in, but I have to have the title, I don't have to cut it up or drain fluids.
In michigan when I scrapped my 95, cause I took it in in pieces, I didn't even need the title.
So I have a clean title and Vin Plaque for a 95 ford still.
Normally you need a title in michigan to do it.
But I took it in 3 trips in different sets of pieces.
He left his Prized GTO at his mom and dads when He sold his house and moved.
They came for dinner in NZ and in the middle of dinner.
"oh, I sold that piece of **** car you were storing in our garage for 800 dollars."
Travis, not all scrap yards have the same rules.
I can take a whole truck in, but I have to have the title, I don't have to cut it up or drain fluids.
In michigan when I scrapped my 95, cause I took it in in pieces, I didn't even need the title.
So I have a clean title and Vin Plaque for a 95 ford still.
Normally you need a title in michigan to do it.
But I took it in 3 trips in different sets of pieces.