Advanced 4x4 experience

[BajaSportsmobile]

Are you wanting this fixed, or Resurrected to a New and Perfect State?

It looks like a nice van with no visible damage or rust in the pictures.

Worth at the very least, $14,000.00.

[mgmetalworks]

If it were me... I'd pass. There are a lot of nice, clean vans out there.

[StraightOuttaBallard]

Originally Posted by BajaSportsmobile

Are you wanting this fixed, or Resurrected to a New and Perfect State?

It looks like a nice van with no visible damage or rust in the pictures.

Worth at the very least, $14,000.00.

Your seeing the Instagram "best of" pics

Anybody the puts it on a hoist lift will get it.

Social media is hella skewed

[rallypanam]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaBallard

In my opinion the owner will have to dump just to sell it, $9810 in state work $8530 out of state to fix all of this stuff...

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaBallard

The bad:[/B]
Advanced 4x4 conv - hard to source part info
T-case actuator hard to work with
Rust on:
Exhaust manifold
Many fasteners on things like the water pump and oil pan that would have to be drilled out
Front box beams, front suspension & wheelwells etc are where the rust - looks like not fresh water wash-down after short trips East of WA
Aluminum Alternator even rusty
Heavy custom steel bumpers and door steps welded to Box beams -
Need to be removed because it's adding weight to the spring loads
and adding rust to the box beams locally

What am I missing? $10,000 for the above repairs?

[StraightOuttaBallard]

Originally Posted by rallypanam

What am I missing? $10,000 for the above repairs?

Time, materials, and heart burn

Timelines and deadlines

[BajaSportsmobile]

It is pretty clear that you are not going to get this van.

[StraightOuttaBallard]

Originally Posted by mgmetalworks

If it were me... I'd pass. There are a lot of nice, clean vans out there.

The paint and pretty Instagram pic is going to attract a lot of attention...

To me the most important thing about paint is a sealed coating... I like polyurea 3/4 the way up the side of my vehicles, also in the wheelwells.

I've dented vehicles that have had 114 degF temperature changes over the coarse of 5 years that have never peeled.

I can appreciate a pretty paintjob - I just don't have much use for it.

[mikracer]

So you're thinking about buying this van and then spending another $10k to get the things you listed fixed?

[StraightOuttaBallard]

Originally Posted by BajaSportsmobile

Are you wanting this fixed, or Resurrected to a New and Perfect State?

It looks like a nice van with no visible damage or rust in the pictures.

Worth at the very least, $14,000.00.

I have a team that I can go to this with... basically they buy vans wholesale, barn finds, wheelchair van and do a lot of work on them. If I buy the van the price needs to be close to what they would pay if they found it. I may just take this up to Crankworks week after next and flip it after that. To stay out of cost over runs on a build I need to do things a certain way. I have a lot of patience... I need something I can take hours away from the Hi-way, snow, ice, tow sleds, live out of for weeks at a time on the road etc - I put a high value on reliability.

[StraightOuttaBallard]

Originally Posted by mgmetalworks

If it were me... I'd pass. There are a lot of nice, clean vans out there.

Here's a video about Polyurea... I've had it on two vehicles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVtgmm0cnoI