The kids new scrappin truck.

Well the kid gets her liscence tomorrow and we decided to get her a truck. She plans to do curbside shopping as her way to make money so she dont have to get a part time job. I think it will work best for her since she is into sports at school and she can do the scrapping thing after practice. I just cant wait for her first load that she takes to school so that she can hit the scrap yard after school. Anyway only paid $900 for the truck 97f250 217k miles. I did a compression test on the engine and it was good before I baught it. Just put a new rear main seal and clutch in it this week. Still have tires, ball joints, and windshiled to do in it but then she is finished. Just wanted to share have a good day.

Hitch for sure so she can tow her horse trailer without using my truck.

I give her props for driving a clutch. That is what most people in our family has, but most of the younger kids dont like them to well.

She will have the greatest sense of accomplishment of herself, when she takes in her first load. Unlike others, she has someone who is in the trenches all the time to give her pointers and to help her avoid mistakes.

Originally Posted by jghilino

i would get or fab up a headache rack also unless you want to end up replacing the back glass

That is in the works as well. Ill be making her one. We dont have one in my 1 ton and havnt broken glass yet. Like I said she will just be doing trash night runs to pay for gas and stuff.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

I give her props for driving a clutch. That is what most people in our family has, but most of the younger kids dont like them to well.

She will have the greatest sense of accomplishment of herself, when she takes in her first load. Unlike others, she has someone who is in the trenches all the time to give her pointers and to help her avoid mistakes.

She didnt have a choice on the clutch GEO. both are cars are clutch so she had to learn to drive one. But when I did ask her about it she wanted a clutch said they are more fun to drive

Manual is the only way to go if your haulin !

Looks like a nice truck and a great opportunity for her PTS...I bet she is excited beyond belief.

Awesome!!!!! Great looking truck!
GIRL POWER!!!!! ^5!

I have my son scrapping..he is rocking! He works FT at McD's nights and scraps during the day. We got him a Ford F100, 1971 with 71,000 original owner miles on it (yea! farm truck) $600. He's had to do some maintenance work on it
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It's comical for me (Jersey Girl) to see my son (born & raised in GA) driving in and out with this thing scrapping! Total Redneck...having FUN!

Originally Posted by Bear

That's a fact of life with a used vehicle(and EVERYBODY drives a used vehicle ; ) no matter how new it is. My first recommendation for anyone with a used vehicle is to buy a repair manual. They're about $15 at any auto parts store, and will pay for itself the first time you use it (and you WILL use it)

Great stocking stuffer idea!!! Thanks Bear!

Originally Posted by Bear

Haha! That's cool! PTS Best of luck with it. I think it's cool too that you're doing your own work on it, and I'm sure you'll rest easier knowing she's in a truck with a good front end. I think she'll be prouder of it too

YEah she is no girly girl thats for sure. She was under the truck helping me and my friend do all the work this weekend.

Originally Posted by Bear

haha, i know it's kinda late, but I hope you put a new slave cylinder while you had that clutch down

LOL yeah it was leaking as well. Did rear main seal, flywheel, clutch kit and slave cylinder.

Originally Posted by Bear

That's a fact of life with a used vehicle(and EVERYBODY drives a used vehicle ; ) no matter how new it is. My first recommendation for anyone with a used vehicle is to buy a repair manual. They're about $15 at any auto parts store, and will pay for itself the first time you use it (and you WILL use it)

LOL whens the last time you baught a chiltons? I just paid $27 for it this weekend. Dang book cost more than the rear main seal.

haha, it's been awhile yep! I got a 93 ranger in 06, and looking on Ebay found an original Ford Shop manual on CD(the same thing they used at Ford shops) for less than $10. It had 234,000 and still looked showroom clean, and got the whole folder of maint records. As well as she took took care of that truck, I still soon realized something wasn't right with the shifting, and after digging around found it was a leaking slave cylinder. She'd had a clutch put in it somewhere along the way, and I looked at the invoices, and the only think they hadn't replaced was that darn $35 slave cylinder. Why I had to do a whole nother clutch job far too soon.