My father works with a PH-D at his work who has a son-in-law that has a '93 F-150 with a blown head gasket, excellent body, and wants to junk the truck. My father is interested in it. He told me about the truck, and I told him if he didn't buy it, I will. He told me that he'd just let me buy it, he'd move it here for me, and I can fix it, drive it some, and sell it. I think it would be worth while. My father tried to get more info out of him, the Dr. said something about wanting around $200.

It's a shame people don't know enough about their vehicles to fix them when they have a problem. But I guess that's why there are people like me around, to benefit from their ignorance.

EDIT: I don't know what engine or tranny it has yet and I believe it is a 4x2 longbed. How much can I expect to spend on a set of head gaskets and other required materials/fluids?

 

Thats how I got my 89 F150. I put an add in a local paper for a 302 and one day this guy phoned me and said he had an old rusty truck he wanted to get rid of. He said he wanted $500 so I did not expect much. When I got there the truck was actually in fairly good shape. Although it leaked oil, the a/c did not work, the power window did not work... After about $50 for a new oil pan gasket, some bartering with buddys, salvage yard scrounging, and about 20 hours labour I now have a solid daily driver.

A similar situation hapened to a friend of mine. A local man had this 92 sable station wagon. Now if you knew this guy you would understand, emaculate car. No rust, interior show room fresh. The only problem it would suck antifreeze as fast as you could pour it in. So they guy just parked it. Now I am good friends with the mans son and one day he just causually asked me if I wanted to buy the car. Faking interest I asked how much his dad wanted. He told me about $150. I looked at him strange and told him even not running it was worth more. He said his dad did not care. I did not need or want the car but a buddy of mine was looking for one so I passed the deal along to him. After trying to argue UP the price my buddy finaly paied the $150 and took the car home. After replacing one cylender head with one from a salvage yard for $200 he now has an extreamly good car.

Amazing what people do under the shadow of ignorance.

 

In answer to you question it all depends on alot of variables.

- Engine size
- Engine model
- Year
- Options
- what you want to buy ie. used/salvaged/new

We need some more info inorder to give a proper estimate since they vary so much. But as an example, the friend in my long windy story bought a salvaged 3.8L head that was rebuilt for $250CND.

 

Well, like I said, the engine and trans is unknown right now. My best guess is this, most F-150's of that era have 5.0L EFI 302's and E40D's, but thats just a guess.

The year is a '93.

I will buy a new set of head gaskets for it. As far as I know right now, that's all it needs.

I just looked up head gasket prices at Advance Auto Parts and the average is about $30 for a set for a 302.

Average price for 300/6 head gasket is $50.

Average price for 351 head gasket is $45.

I reckon it won't be that expensive, just time consuming, probably one good Saturday.

 

Go for it. i bought a Toyota 4x4 lifted for $600 sold it a year later for $2200 and did not do a thing to it. Some people just don't know what they have.

Chris

 

When my parents retired to florida about 3 years ago they were going to "junk" their 89 tempo, just because my parents had three cars and didn't feel like towing one down, so they were going to junk it. My father just mentioned this in passing not really soliciting my interest, and I asked how it ran and he said the paint is faded but it runs fine, but its old and can't be bothered taking it down. They have a new Contour, and a new Taurus wagon, and that was enough cars for my parents being retired and all.

Drove up, picked up the car and the title, and have been driving it ever since. It ate two neutral switches, but thats about it. Its the perfect car for driving around manhatten with all the aggressive taxi cabs, and I leave it at the train station quite a bit instead of our nicer, scratch free cars.

Free overcomes many faults, even its desire to eat neutral switches.

I dunno, I've never junked a car in my life. I drive them until they explode (or implode) and I sell them to a high school student for next to nothing.

 

I'm still in high school (I'm a senior), lol, but only until June 2nd (graduation!). I enjoy a good challenge and I believe if this deal works out, I'll be a 2-Ford truck man.

 

He only wants $200 for the truck? Heck yea I would do it, you wouldn't have to fix a thing and could sell it for a lot more than you paid for it.

 

in a heart beat! i have had three outstanding trucks that same scenario.one my father still drives,a 83 250 camper special,one i just sold an 85 bronco fullsize,and one i am trying to restore, a 89 f350 crew cab dually diesel nice truck!good luck deno

 

Man, I wouldn't go and say that. Some people just don't want to deal with it & let it go cheap.
I just let a rust free lincoln go for $300.00 with a busted head gasket. Yes, I could have replaced it but I found out after owning that car for a few year that it was a money pit. I decided to count my losses & pass the car on to someone else.

Now, back in my Chevy days I was looking for a rust free body to drop my Z-28 400 sb into & found a 82 Malibu 2 Door sitting in a field. I picked the car up for a $100.00 just for the body.
The guy I bought it from said it ran 7 years ago when they parked it but they couldn't get it running after that.
I poured some fresh gas in the tank, Carb, turned the distributer a little & that sb 350 fired right up. I drove that car out of the feild the same day I purchased it & drove it for 5 years before I sold it for $1500.00.
Now if you know anything about those old Malibu's, you would know a 2 door in good shape is hard to come by cheap!

 

By the way, you got yourself a good deal. You better jump on it quick. If you don't someone else sure will.

Even if you just part the truck out, you are probally gaurenteed $1000.00 on the low end for parts.