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Originally Posted by WarDamnEagle
I wish Beno would chime in here as he seems to be the resident expert on renovating a rust-belt 80 (and it hasn't been trivial from what I've seen from his posts).
I don't think you'll be happy if you buy this one.
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Don't buy it. I have all of Junk's good bits on my truck!
And Mrs. CDan has the other bits!
And yes I can say that Junk has wheeled this vehicle pretty hard. Hell, Junk's truck was on the back cover of a number of TT's in the early 2000's going through a mud pit in Paragon IIRC that was all the way up to the bottom of his windows!
That said, and to agree with WarDamnEagle, working on a rust belt vehicle is awful. During my rebuild I would say that 75% of my bolts snapped while trying to remove them. Lots of tapping going on and then of course probably about $500 in new OEM nuts and bolts.
Just looking at the driveshafts bothers me.
Pass on this one and find another one--preferably from the Southwest.
Good luck.
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