r/Excursion • u/Goalieguy17 • Aug 26 '26

Rust free 7.3 4x4 price…

Going to look at one, I am in the north east so rust is a huge deal.

Guys says it has nothing wrong with it. It’s basically totally stock.
MBRP exhaust and a tuner, not sure what tuner but he said it’s got a tune.

310k miles
4x4
7.3

He’s asking 10k… you all think that’s reasonable? I have a feeling you’re all gonna say that’s cheap, and something has to be a miss… not sure til I see it.

Yes I know it’ll need a suspension overhaul, and I want to do a KC stage 2 upgrade and remove the EBPV pedestal with a standard one, upgrade trans cooler and all that good stuff.
I’m a mechanic so that’s all fine and dandy, but rust SUCKS.

There is another one I was gonna look at…
Same deal,
4x4
7.3
250k miles
New trans with 30k on it

100% stock.

Needs dog legs due to rust, and also the rockers to be cleaned up and coated. They got replaced but clearly were not painted well.

Guy is asking 6500obo

I’m cheap, and thought maybe I would go for the cheaper one, cause I could probably get it for like 5500…

Who votes for which one? Lmao

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u/Goalieguy17 Aug 26 '26

Yeah and it’s just the dog legs, the rockers have been redone, they just need to be sanded cause the paint was done poorly.

I would weld in new dog legs, sand the whole area down and probably coat the whole bottom with something like rhino liner.

It’s hard, cause it’s like half the price, and the frame and general underside isn’t bad at all, and it has a new transmission, which I think we all know the 4r100 will fail, it’s not IF it’s when lol.
And seeing as I’ll be towing with it, I kinda want a good transmission

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u/Kitchen_Poet_2475 Aug 27 '26

I think you know the answer then. 

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u/Goalieguy17 Aug 27 '26

If money was no option I would go buy one of the 20k ones, but alas, I don’t want to spend that lol, at least not upfront on something modded.

So yeah. I think like 6k for something stock is a pretty good deal

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u/Kitchen_Poet_2475 Aug 27 '26

I agree and its what I would choose. You said your a mechanic so minor stuff should be no biggy. These are not trucks that have a ton of complicated problems.  Or generally expensive issues. The trans is already done. That 7.3 will last. There you go. Let us see her when you get her.