...............This belonged to my father in law. My wife's parents own quite a few rentals and some were up in the Sierra Nevada gold country. FIL used this pickup up there. He passed away a year and a half ago and this pickup has been sitting ever since. My brother in law has taken over maintaining the rentals and stuff and the family LLC was going to dispose of it. I'd asked to use it for hauling the drywall and lumber I was needing for a bathroom addition and was asked if I'd just like to have it.
My father in law was one of those people who could just walk past a piece of machinery and it would disintegrate . Actually it was more benign neglect I think as he didn't seem to understand the value of timely maintanence, until whatever it was just quit or blew up.
The body is straight and has no rust or anything. The interior is a bit fuzzy but nothing is torn or falling off. Under the hood the battery was dry and re-filled it wouldn't hold a charge. The cooling system was trying to circulate a close facsimile of mud. I also had to add 5 qts of ATF to the tranny, but I think that was because of weeping from the rubber hoses to the trans cooler. The tilt steering wheel is a bit loose, but I haven't looke dinto that yet.
It has a 3.9L V6 with 172K on the clock. Apparently it was made of sterner stuff, as my FIL seemed unsuccessful in making it smoke via burning oil, which was one of his better tricks . When you turn the key it starts instantaneously and makes no noise so I'm pretty confidant the engine is okay. It drives well, the trans shifts okay and kicks down when you gas on it. I haven't tried the 4WD part of it yet.
Anyone have experience with these, and know of any issues I might check out, or be on the lookout for? I will have to get it smogged this month and my bro in law seemed to think that that might be kind of iffy.
..................Buckshot