I'm looking at a truck. It was a ford ranger 4cly manual 160k miles for 1800. I live in Iowa and it has very little rust (so that's good). The downside I am seeing is that it had a C notch done to it. The current owner reversed it but the notch in the back is still there, and the gas tank is a barrel in the back lol. How bad is something like that? I'm guessing if done wrong there is a lot of problems that could happen with the frame. How do you reverse something like this, or tell if the job was done correctly?
Thank you
I'd stay away from that. The only option is to reweld the cut out frame section into it and who needs that "meatball" in the back of their mind every time they're going 60 mph on the highway?
I'm guessing if done wrong there is a lot of problems that could happen with the frame.
It is done wrong, yeah, you could die. I'd say that's a big problem. It's botched, don't waste your time, money and life over this one. To fix it, you'd have to cut out the bad section and weld in a new/donor section by someone who knows what they're doing. the fix is going to cost more than the truck is worth.
Okay thank you!