Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Thoughts on why this engine is so rough appearing

Have the dealer pull a car fax on it. It will tell what has happen if flood.etc. I wont buy without one.

Renegade would roll under it with a creeper or make them put it up on the rack. You should too.

How do you figure Carfax would know if it'd been in a flood?

Well, I wouldn’t buy it until I found out for sure.

On second thought.

That car has had a large amount of salt water on it, in it, whatever.

That metal is far too corroded for that year group. Especially if down south.

I would be as nervous as a hooker in church buying that car.

The carfax does not show any flood or other negative experience. It shows oil changes and service all taking place at the same Tennessee dealership. The local dealer changed the fluids, wipers, and filters. They also changed both front sway bar links before putting it on the lot. Again thanks for the considerations. -tnscouter

I think the battery thing went bad as well.

There are a bunch of good clean vehicles for sale out there. I have several that are over 50 years old with more than 200k miles on them. They look quite clean when compared to that vehicle. I would not buy it.

More better to RUN!!!

Run, run.

And go have a waffle.

It wouldn't tell you if it had ben in a flood, but it would tell you every state that is has been titled in for license plates and how many owners etc. If you can read sign, you should be able to figure it out.

This is my thought. Probably a salvaged vehicle.

Here is a picture of the battery. I added it to my original post. Thanks -tnscouter

Salt water or salted roads is my guess.

I see folks all summer at the local launch with half their rig in the water. Brand new 1 ton Denali with its rear axle under water and the waves lapping over the rear door sills to launch/recover a 30yo POS Bayliner. Pulled one guy out a couple years ago on my way home.

People as a whole are breathtakingly stupid.

ETA- then again, maybe they are leases. Lol.

Salt...that should be the original battery at 5 years...I gotem older then that in this climate! 33below this morning!

And that right there is why I like older trucks. Something that you maintain with basic maintenance but don’t feel to awful bad about dunking the rear axle in a lake, towing snowmobiles up North in and wincing just a little bit when you hear brush scratching against it on a tight two track in bird or deer county.

Nope, no sign of rust corrosion ANYWHERE on the battery.

They didn't re-paint the hold down either....or treat the terminals. Right after they (a dealership selling a car) hosed it down....

Of course saltwater and road salt only effect the parts on the drivers side of the engine.

And I've never seen that before....

Good call on the hold down and terminals.

Easy Rod.....

It's all been said already. Looks like mag chloride exposure to me. That's why I hose down engine and work up underneath vehicle with a hose at the very least in the spring , summer and fall.