Well was wondering if I should fix my truck or not. Didn't have full coverage on the truck so money. Well air bags has are deployed. Radiator,oil cooler,coolant resovoir broken. Of course bumper, grille,hood, and fenders. Frame seems straight. Broke a mount that I think was for the bumper but I don't know. Well should fix it or grab a donor truck and put the engine from the wrecked truck into it.

 

either way your going to need another truck. Parts will cost more than an entire truck. Look for one that has a blown motor, or hit in the back end and totaled. You also need the inner fenders, radiator mount / head light assemble ........ some of that stuff will not align too good. Parts truck will give you everything you need.

 

I hope you made it thru that OK. I agree with Steve and get yourself another truck. Find one on c/l and figure out what you want to do.

 

check with wrecking yards in your area for parts also check on that steering gear. If it were pushed back then the column will have to be replaced. The air bag will cost about $1,000

 

My 2001 Supercrew had a quarter of your damage and insurance was going to total it. What saved it was Air Bags weren't deployed, and the rinky-dink shop they had me get the estimate from missed half the damage. I even told the insurance they were wrong. BTW It was already being repaired at another shop, when they tried to change it to a total! So I'd say total it. Was the engine recently rebuilt? Is that why you want to save it?

 

I would probably chalk it up as a loss and see if someone wanted it for $1500obo.

You could part it out but that is a huge headache.

Im thinking the repair would be $2500 if you were extremely lucky and got a cheap parts truck but most likely between 3 and 4 thousand total.

 

I had far far less damage than that on my '97 several years ago and it was $4500 parts and labor. I bet you hit $10K easy unless you use all used parts. All I had was grille, hood (just repaint no body damage), head lights, grille guard and bumper with the fenders getting barely tweaked and cab was just barely shifted.

 

I've decided to find another truck for cheap with a bunt engine or granny and switch out things from my wrecked truck. Might do some engine work while it's out of the truck.