Noiseydiesel
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So there I was Playing with Facebook marketplace. A dangerous place for a mentally challenged person such as I. There I was looking for a dump trailer and ran across a '93 F350 dually with the 7.3 for $1,000
I contacted the owner who didn't quite speak the best English. (He was Samoan) He sent me a phone number, we spoke. Turbo?, I asked and that got an indefinite answer. "It doesn't start" in broken english and a few other things. I offered him $500. He balked and said he had all kinds of people calling him for the $1,000. I said, "Why are you wasting your time with me?" He said okay and then requested I pay him through Zelle up front. "I need the money!"
I figured he must as he dropped the price in 1/2.
Well, I have been shafted before and $500 just might pan out.
Bing Maps showed the truck in his back yard and naturally I looked AFTER I paid him. Not smart, but oh well.
One way, 2.5 hour road trip later I got to his house, went out, pooped the hood and all this shiny metal showed up. Shiny tall intake, two rubber hoses, that 7.3 disappeared and was replaced with a 7.5, uh. . .No Turbo.
I scrubbed off the emissions sticker and the Serp belt diagram showing the 7.5 on both stickers.
He laughed, I cussed, and then I took a hard look at a hyd dump trailer next to the truck.
No way to tow it with my mini-van and the truck was destined for a AAA tow from the beginning.
I said I would Like to have my money back. "I spent it", he said. Like I didn't already know that.
Okay, then I will take the ($7K) Dump trailer, just to annoy him and he said he had "Just bought it and not made the first payment yet." I was polite in my response. "Not My Problem."
He offered to refund $200.
A CC Dually with an 8x12 steel flatbed, 90% on all 6 tires. . . he claimed it ran and drove fine.
The tires would recoup that if all else failed. . . $300?
I reluctantly agreed and called AAA for the trip home, 154 miles roughly. I hung up on them and he is busy cleaning up the yard, (which is what i need to do also) there sat a lumber rack for a standard bed truck. "He asked if I would like to have the rack and still acting a bit put out, I had to respond, "For free and you load it. . . "
He said he had some buddies coming over and they would help load it. (That rack is worth $300)
Not long after, his 4 other Samoan buddies showed up and it was done.
AAA showed up and looked at this Steel flatbed truck and said it weighed too much for him to handle. However, a 153 mile tow across state lines was too good a deal to pass up. He decided to do it and I gave him another $50 as I was not going to be home when he dropped it. So now the question becomes one of, "Is it wrong to have 6 trucks?" The other one is parked elsewhere. Oh! Tomorrow is a 90 minute trip south to pick up an $800 flat bed frame, hoist and pump. Might as well turn this into a dump bed.
I contacted the owner who didn't quite speak the best English. (He was Samoan) He sent me a phone number, we spoke. Turbo?, I asked and that got an indefinite answer. "It doesn't start" in broken english and a few other things. I offered him $500. He balked and said he had all kinds of people calling him for the $1,000. I said, "Why are you wasting your time with me?" He said okay and then requested I pay him through Zelle up front. "I need the money!"
I figured he must as he dropped the price in 1/2.
Well, I have been shafted before and $500 just might pan out.
Bing Maps showed the truck in his back yard and naturally I looked AFTER I paid him. Not smart, but oh well.
One way, 2.5 hour road trip later I got to his house, went out, pooped the hood and all this shiny metal showed up. Shiny tall intake, two rubber hoses, that 7.3 disappeared and was replaced with a 7.5, uh. . .No Turbo.
I scrubbed off the emissions sticker and the Serp belt diagram showing the 7.5 on both stickers.
He laughed, I cussed, and then I took a hard look at a hyd dump trailer next to the truck.
No way to tow it with my mini-van and the truck was destined for a AAA tow from the beginning.
I said I would Like to have my money back. "I spent it", he said. Like I didn't already know that.
Okay, then I will take the ($7K) Dump trailer, just to annoy him and he said he had "Just bought it and not made the first payment yet." I was polite in my response. "Not My Problem."
He offered to refund $200.
A CC Dually with an 8x12 steel flatbed, 90% on all 6 tires. . . he claimed it ran and drove fine.
The tires would recoup that if all else failed. . . $300?
I reluctantly agreed and called AAA for the trip home, 154 miles roughly. I hung up on them and he is busy cleaning up the yard, (which is what i need to do also) there sat a lumber rack for a standard bed truck. "He asked if I would like to have the rack and still acting a bit put out, I had to respond, "For free and you load it. . . "
He said he had some buddies coming over and they would help load it. (That rack is worth $300)
Not long after, his 4 other Samoan buddies showed up and it was done.
AAA showed up and looked at this Steel flatbed truck and said it weighed too much for him to handle. However, a 153 mile tow across state lines was too good a deal to pass up. He decided to do it and I gave him another $50 as I was not going to be home when he dropped it. So now the question becomes one of, "Is it wrong to have 6 trucks?" The other one is parked elsewhere. Oh! Tomorrow is a 90 minute trip south to pick up an $800 flat bed frame, hoist and pump. Might as well turn this into a dump bed.
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