93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

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pinellas50

New Guy
It's time for me to cut my losses. This is #1036. It's just about to turn 104K miles.

Since I got it in Oct of 2006 I dumped thousands into it and drove it about 2K miles. Typical story I know. The list of everything I have done to it is new paint, new tires, new Walboro, new billet AFPR, new distributor, new catalytic converter, Johnson IC pump, solid motor mounts, silicon vacuum lines, ABS delete, ZQ8 steering box, HD steering shaft, coated exhaust manifolds, fresh stock heads, new wind shield, new power window motors/regulators, ignition switch, door locks, cold/retrofitted A/C, and more that I can't think of right now. The tranny was rebuilt some time ago but I don't have documentation on it.

Here is a pic:
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You can see all kinds of pics in my car domain page found in my sig.

My problems started with a blown head gasket. While repairing that I put on a set of L35 heads. You can read from there.
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57991
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59685

I just got done putting stock heads back on it. Visually, the pistons looked fine. I got about 10 miles on the motor with the stock heads back on it and the motor dropped at least one cylinder. There was no knocking or audible signs that the motor injested itself. I parked it and have yet to diagnose what is wrong now. But at this point, I just want out.

At this point, I'm just hoping to recoup what the paint job cost me along with metal replacement and such. I really don't want to go through parting it out.

I'm just throwing this out there at $5K. I don't know if that's too much given it's condition or not. I imagine the line to making more by parting it isn't too far below this but I don't want to go through the trouble.
 
95xtreme

95xtreme

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

Are you willing to work with a shipper? Also was there a fair amount of rust at some point? how was it repaired? Was the cladding removed for paint? let me know very interested
 
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pinellas50

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

95xtreme said:
Are you willing to work with a shipper? Also was there a fair amount of rust at some point? how was it repaired? Was the cladding removed for paint? let me know very interested
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I could work with a shipper as long as they can work around my work schedule.

There was rust in the front fenders, bottom of both doors, and the bottom of the tail gate. All of those were taken off and thown in the trash. These were all replaced with factory metal from mainly a FL Blazer than no longer needed them...read jy and no rust. The cladding was taken off, doors disassembled, tail gate disassembled, front fenders painted off the truck, etc. I intended on keeping this thing a long time when this was done so I didn't take it to some kind of econo paint place. It was done right. I wouldn't personally call it show quality but it looks good even real close up.

There are a couple of drips in the paint that should have been wet sanded out. You really don't see them, I kept forgetting about them....they are still there. There were others like this when the truck was first done and the body shop took them out easily. The truck was painted with a one stage paint so it could easily be repaired if my kids ever went down the side of the thing with their bikes or something.

The only rust that was left was a very small amount of surface stuff around the rear wheel wells which the body shop took care of. The core support had some directly under the battery tray(a leaking battery at some point?). I scraped that off and then treated it with first the rust converter and then encapsulator from East Wood.

I forgot to add that the truck received a new short block at a dealership in 2003. I have the documentation on that. I don't think very many miles were put on it after that but that is my assumption.

If anyone want further photos please ask. If you want to have one of the local SyTy gurus in my area come look at it, send them over.
 
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T-Bone

T-Bone

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

That is a very, very good price.....

Cladding - $2,500-3,000
Wheels/Tires - $500
Front and rear bumper braces - $600-800
Upper / Lower IC - $500
Turbo - $300

Hmmmm, almost there. How about????

Steering wheel - $100

There ya go; $5,000 on the low end of the prices listed. I could still peel off about another $4,000 worth of parts from that truck (Did I mention the headers, DP, exhaust, transmission, X-fer case, console, bezels, instrument cluster...oh, let me stop). If I weren't buying a Z06, I would be making a trip to Florida most rickety tick!!!
 
T-Bone

T-Bone

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

pinellas50 said:
So I should be asking more?
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Well, given the current market on these and the economy, you have it priced to sell as is. I doubt it would pull more but it sure would IF it were parted. On the down side, you have to factor in the time required to get it apart and then the time to advertise, milk money out of people which can be laborous, package and ship the items and then HOPE they are happy with the purchase.
 
Norm

Norm

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

Pull out the v-6 and put in a ls-1. Sh!t, you've done alot of work to it. I would just part out the engine/tranny stuff and keep the body. It sounds like it's in nice shape.
 
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pinellas50

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

Norm said:
Pull out the v-6 and put in a ls-1. Sh!t, you've done alot of work to it. I would just part out the engine/tranny stuff and keep the body. It sounds like it's in nice shape.
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It's funny you should say that. That's an option that just surfaced today.

GT I got your PM. I'll have to get back to you on that.

I am going to do a compression test on the motor before I make any decision. I probably posted this just a slight bit early out of frustration. I think I would hang myself if I let this thing go at this price and later learned it was only something like a bad fuel injector. I hope to have the compression test done in the next several days if not tonight.
 
MRKING

MRKING

New Parts for Old Trucks
Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

Just hang on to it and bring it to some meets . Your just frustrated and want out of the situation . It will work out in the end .
 
95xtreme

95xtreme

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

pinellas50 said:
I could work with a shipper as long as they can work around my work schedule.

There was rust in the front fenders, bottom of both doors, and the bottom of the tail gate. All of those were taken off and thown in the trash. These were all replaced with factory metal from mainly a FL Blazer than no longer needed them...read jy and no rust. The cladding was taken off, doors disassembled, tail gate disassembled, front fenders painted off the truck, etc. I intended on keeping this thing a long time when this was done so I didn't take it to some kind of econo paint place. It was done right. I wouldn't personally call it show quality but it looks good even real close up.

There are a couple of drips in the paint that should have been wet sanded out. You really don't see them, I kept forgetting about them....they are still there. There were others like this when the truck was first done and the body shop took them out easily. The truck was painted with a one stage paint so it could easily be repaired if my kids ever went down the side of the thing with their bikes or something.

The only rust that was left was a very small amount of surface stuff around the rear wheel wells which the body shop took care of. The core support had some directly under the battery tray(a leaking battery at some point?). I scraped that off and then treated it with first the rust converter and then encapsulator from East Wood.

I forgot to add that the truck received a new short block at a dealership in 2003. I have the documentation on that. I don't think very many miles were put on it after that but that is my assumption.

If anyone want further photos please ask. If you want to have one of the local SyTy gurus in my area come look at it, send them over.
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Could you let me know your address so I can get a quote of shipping? you can pm me if you do not want it in public. Also let me know your work hours and does it run at all just badly or not enough to drive it on a hauler?

let me know
Jim
 
SY2455

SY2455

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

pinellas50 said:
It's funny you should say that. That's an option that just surfaced today.

GT I got your PM. I'll have to get back to you on that.

I am going to do a compression test on the motor before I make any decision. I probably posted this just a slight bit early out of frustration. I think I would hang myself if I let this thing go at this price and later learned it was only something like a bad fuel injector. I hope to have the compression test done in the next several days if not tonight.
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Maybe a valve not adjusted right.
 
T-Bone

T-Bone

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

DaveP said:
I love these declarations of "$3,000" for the cladding. Maybe.
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If you were referring to my input, I quoted $2,500-3,000.

Rear corners - $450 each ($900)
Rear roll pan - $200
Front bumper cover - $550
Front fender arches - $250 each ($500)
Rockers - $300 each ($600)
Door cladding - $225 each ($500)

Oops, I am sorry. That is already $3,250 and there is still cladding pieces remaining on the truck and BTW, those are very fair prices.....
 
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pinellas50

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

SY2455 said:
Maybe a valve not adjusted right.
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This is exactly what came to mind last night after doing the compression test.

Guys, I'm going to hold off on this sale until I explore my valve lash settings. I'm sorry to be flaky on this but I have two years, countless labor hours, and thousands wrapped up into this thing. This isn't an easy decision for me here.

For those who I have corresponded with, I won't forget you. 95xtreme I sent you a PM.
 
T-Bone

T-Bone

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

DaveP said:
You missed my point. Which is where's your market that supports these prices???
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No, I didn't miss it at all. Just observe the pricing around here and on ebay...and yes, the stuff sells quite easily. I do agree with you that many times, used pieces are junked up a bit but which is why I posted lower than average prices. If I had the spare pieces, I could sell them all day long at the prices I listed :tup:
 
warmpancakes

warmpancakes

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Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

any typhoon or syclone with complete cladding is worth 4500.00 minimum parted out and its easy to get that without trying
 
MRKING

MRKING

New Parts for Old Trucks
Re: 93 TY FS in FL--Needs motor work

T-Bone said:
Just observe the pricing around here and on ebay...and yes, the stuff sells quite easily. I do agree with you that many times, used pieces are junked up a bit but which is why I posted lower than average prices. If I had the spare pieces, I could sell them all day long at the prices I listed :tup:
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I will second all of that . None of your estimates seem out of line . Ive bought and sold cladding many times to help fund my sy . If prices 10 years ago was where its at , wait 10 more years , and complain then about how much it will be .

Im not a fan of parting out good trucks , but selling all the parts individually will fetch better $$$ than whole trucks everytime . :2cents:
 
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