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Message: [QUOTE="JD3020, post: 1125708, member: 373"] Planning on looking at a truck later this week. Its an 01 F-450, crew cab, 2wd, ZF-6, has a nice steel flatbed with aluminum boxes on both sides, and around 260k miles. Its a XLT with power everything. Overall its a pretty clean truck for its age, seller says theres no rust on the truck anywhere. The truck does have an engine issue right now. He installed new injectors, HPOP, clutch, and some turbo stuff on it this spring. Claims he had an injector nozzle split taking out a piston, so he had a used engine installed by a shop and its still not right. The engine issues don't bug me too much as i have a complete, healthy L99+ engine sitting here on a stand. [IMG]https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10325657_10205466766171020_864064579223888569_n.jpg?oh=eb4277fc60970588dafe59c6b17068df&oe=54FE4A00[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/604167_10205466955175745_67312577691489023_n.jpg?oh=163f9270da35e566446afb9056aaf2ba&oe=55028477&__gda__=1427958683_6f75178bd0672c69b108edd6e28462e8[/IMG] What i need help with is the F-450 side of things. Being a high mileage work truck is there anything i need to check on the frame, driveline, and brakes for wear and stress? I know these trucks are built heavy, but i've never been around one with this many miles. I just don't want to buy this thing and end up having to re-build it from the ground up. Secondly, what is this truck worth in good condition? As in solid running engine, clean interior and exterior, and 05+ front-end or at least new headlights and a chrome bumper I've had a couple guys tell me $9-10k, while others think $12-13k as its an XLT F-450 which isn't a common truck. [/QUOTE]