matth0le
+1y
Mine was equally as bad if not much worse.
The truck I have reads 124K on the odo.
This truck was stolen a few years back. The ingition switch was replaced. That was all that was repaired from the the theft. The steering wheel was cut with a hack saw to remove the club anti-theft thing. The colum cover was half gone. Of course the drivers side lock is broke too. The theives then stole the entire bed. The previous owner recoved the truck and found a new bed at a junk yard and bolted it on with two bolts. He used trailer tail lights bolted through the back of the bed instead of real taillights. The gas filler was hacked, a new fuel filler hose was hastily clamped on, and a screwdriver was jammed into the fuel tank vent.
Those are the minor things wrong.
The engine barely ran because of a clogged precat. What TPO did was remove the exhaust hose off the front of the air cleaner and let the exhaust flow out the two exhaust hoses over the top of the engine. The entire engine bay, and most of the truck was covered in black soot. After pulling the engine I discovered TPO used water for coolant. The heater core tubing and hoses were completely clogged with red clay. A solid mass of red clay !!!
There was no saving that engine hence the FE3 now in the engine bay.
On to the brakes, or lack thereof. The E brake did not work and the brake pedal went all the way to the floor. The front calipers were totally shot, needed a rebuild and the rotors and pads were down to nearly nothing. I replaced the rotors, bearings, pads, calipers, and the master cylinder too.
The rear brakes were 1000X worse. I attempted to bleed the rear brakes after doing the front and nothing came out of the brake line except air. I could not bleed the brakes at all. So I took the driver side drum off to see what was going on and three chunks of steel fell out. That is what was left of the self-adjuster. The shoes were down to metal, the drum had chunks missing on the inside, the bottom spring was wrapped around the axle jammed between the seal and axle, and the cylinder was destroyed. I replaced the driver side cylinder, self-adjuster, shoes, drum, hardware and everything on the pass side except the cylinder.
The tires even though dry rotted seemed to hold up fine. I recently jacked the truck up and heard and air leak after I jacked the truck up. The dry rotted tire cracked the sidewall and started a very fast leak after I jacked it up. Awesome.
This truck was actually driven quite a few miles in the condition I described it. It was a rolling disaster.