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Vent: bought a $600 Ranger with a cracked head and it sat in my driveway for 8 months
Picked up a 1999 Ford Ranger last August from a guy in Fresno who said it just needed a head gasket. I pulled the head in my driveway two weekends later and found a crack running right through the exhaust port, so I parked it behind the gate and there it sat until March. What finally saved me was a tip from my neighbor: I posted the head on a Ranger forum with the crack circled and a guy 40 miles away had a rebuilt one off a rolled truck for $120. If you have a dead project taking up space, post the busted part somewhere specific instead of letting the truck rot. Did you fix it or just keep buying parts hoping the problem would go away?
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johnb956d ago
Wait, why did you let it sit for 8 months if the whole problem was just finding a head? I get the forum tip worked out but that seems like a lot of downtime for something you could've sorted in a weekend or two with some phone calls to junkyards. Around here you can pull a head off a 4.0 in a Pick Your Part for like $60 and they're everywhere. The part that gets me is you kind of answered your own question at the end there, posting the cracked head was the fix, not some big lesson about buying parts hoping problems go away. Most guys I know with dead projects aren't throwing money at them, they're just flat broke or busy or lost interest, and a forum post doesn't fix any of that. Sounds like you got lucky with a neighbor who knew the right move more than anything.
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