so a guy down the street bought a cummins 2 months ago for $5500 1999 2500 24v 202k miles, meyers 7'6" plow, rust on doors, leather interior , ext cab 6ft bed. truck needded some front end work but ran fine.

he rebuilds the front end including trac bar and balljoints and wheel bearings on both sides, rotors and pads, including 2 new tires and alignment.

week later truck wont start, local diesel shop replaced speed sensor and crank position sensor, still wont start just turns forever. next day diesel tech attempyts to start, it fired up and ran fine. ran strong for 2 weeks, then one day just stalled out at idle and wont restart.

i did drive the truk while it ran, pulled hard, didnt have a dead pedal like some of the 24v with weak pumps, could almost say she ran perfect.4x4 perfect also.

what you guys think is going on here, he wants to sell me the truck for the same $5500 not running includes plow, and the $2000 worth of parts he sunk into it over the past month between front end and sensors.

i feel like the worst that could happen is she needs a pump, which will run me $1200-$1500 hopefully, any opinions here? maybe i should just pass it up?

i said id do 4500, hes firm on the 5500 also, any advice appreciated thanks in advance

 

Could be as simple as a bad ground, could need an ECM/PCM replacement; it's hard to tell without even seeing it. Would be nice to be able to hook it up to a DRBIII or Starscan to find out a bit more...

 

would you feel safe buying it? the fact it runs one day and not another does make me believe its something as stupid as a ground

 

Agreed, knowing any codes that were in it due to this problem would be helpful. Any other modifications to the truck? Could be a transfer pump with a bad spot in its motor, who knows at this time though.

 

I would tend to think the same, but I have been on the forums for over six years now, and every now and again I have seen some funky stuff, such as the ECM flaking off. If you don't need the truck for a daily driver, and it's in good shape overall, I would say it's a good deal. Just bear in mind it's not really useful until you work all the bugs out of it and it is once again dependable.

 

i have a daily driver gasser, and my 94 12v to play and drive a few days. just something i figured is a nice toy to grab, work on it as a please, and one day make it a daily driver once all the flaws are worked out. just wondering if $5500 is too much for it.

 

If thats hat he paid 2 months ago, and dumped $2000 into it, I think the price is good. Essentially a $7500 truck, in 2 months it won't depreciate $2000.

 

well it also drove him home wen he paid 5500 , is this likely a junk pump case scenario? or more like something else

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sucks that i have no way to scan it...

 

I think it's a decent price. It does depend on your area though..

 

i can get an ext cab short bed 24v with around 150k miles for 9k for a preety decent one with small rot running strong shifting good ready to work, this ones 204k miles, and a few bugs :p and drivers door has some bad rot otherwise clean

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however it does comer with a 7'6" meyers plow, not a huge meyers fan but hey, it pushes snow.