Originally posted by talisman
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The reason the truck was running bad... out of gas!!! I stole the truck off this guy!!! Someone added an auxiliary tank and although it was reading a 1/4 tank (which you can never trust!), it was basically empty or the pick up is broken (as advised by CJ's buddy Jeff). It was pulling just enough diesel to idle, but wouldn't drive without acting like it was starved for fuel. I switched to the other tank and filled it up. After that the truck ran perfect!
The primary tank is only 14 gallons so I see why someone added the other tank. I'll have to pull it down to see what if anything is wrong with the tank/ pick up tube.
It was getting 15 MPG on the hwy coming home... that's better than my other gas wrecker and the diesel rollback so its doing ok. The truck is going to need some interior/exterior work. As it sits right now I could probably get $10-11k for it, but with another $1k in parts it should pull $14-15k easily. Not bad for a truck that I bought that "didn't run right" for $6500!!! Which was his asking price btw. After I figured out what was wrong, I did give him the option to refund my initial deposit and pay to fly me back to Texas if he wanted to try to get more for the truck. $6500 was about all I can afford right now with the wedding coming up. I know that's a steal on it and kind of screwing him around. He said he was firm on the asking price and that he would sell it either way and let me have the truck. I guess karma is to thank!
Originally posted by 5.0_CJ
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