Not all 53 blocks crack. I’m not sure I’d shoot myself in the foot over something that might not even become a problem. It’s up to the buyer to be informed and decide. Just my $0.02
I love buying from the auction cause it's not like Facebook where somebody is voluntarily selling their car but it gets in a accident and they have to give to to the insurance and we get to fix em and have somebody's baby
It’s still an auto tho. You’re not factoring in $8,000 for a built trans dude! Better hope it’s not a 53 block! Oooh ya with the tax and buyers fees and everything it comes out to waaay to much! About $2000 to much. You just better hope to god it is isn’t a 53. Too bad it’s not a HO and a 6 speed. Check the KDP. My ‘02 24v HO 6 speed with only 100k miles, it’s mint. Perfect in every way. Mint inside and out. I bought it from the original owner 8-9 years ago with only 79,000 miles, all stock all Original, mint, unmolested, garage kept, Colorado truck, paid $16k sight unseen. Old man gramps truck that was garage kept and hardly driven. People are always trying to buy it off me. It’s to clean and perfect, id never find anything nicer or cleaner.
Ahhhhh it’s a 53 block! Womp womp womp. And it’s a an automatic to dude. Your forgetting that your gunna have to ya in that trans absolutely o matter what and have a quality trans they and thru built to hold any kind of power and modifications you want to do. The stock auto trans dosent even hold up to a stock Motor. A 50 horse budget tune will make it slip dude. A good trans with all the goodies is gunna start about $7000 and goes up from there. Upwards to the tune of $10,500 man. Ask me how I know! I had $9500 in the trans on my 3rd gen mega cab. I won’t ever have or own another automatic trans that’s bolted to a Cummins. They just won’t hold up. I’ll always have a manual. Automatics are for suckers. The 53 block thing is highly misunderstood. There’s a way you can pull a freeze plug out and measure the thickness of the block. There’s a spec on it and a way to tell if it is one of the ‘bad ones’. You can do it with a simple Micrometer. There was an article I read on it, I think it was on the TDR. You might look into it. I wouldn’t throw in the towel yet. Look into it and pop a freeze plug, you gotta drain down the block anyways to replace the rad., what’s a couple new freeze plugs for some peice of Mind? It had something to do with the casting mold shifting. It wasn’t on all of them. Numbers suggest anywhere of 100,000 53 blocks were affected. It made the casting on that shelf to thin cause it shifted. The best block you can get is a 56 block, that’s the one everyone wants. My ‘02 HO 6 speed is a 56 block. It’s got everything good a secound hen could have. The creme of a crop. The unicorn of them all. ‘02 is the year everyone wants for lots of reasons. Dana 80 rear disc, no CAD front 60, np241dhd, 6 speed, high output, 56 block. And I belive no worries of the KDP I’ve been told. Bigger breaks. I guess the ‘02 breaks and steering box, and steering stuff are basically identical to a 3rd gen. A ‘02 secound gen got all the new bigger upgraded stuff a 3rd gen would have gotten in 2003. That’s why they are so highly sought after.
Only in certain states you have to have a dealer license to buy vehicles. Like in Texas you can buy a salvage title vehicle without a license, but you have to have a dealer license buy a clean title vehicle. Arizona you don’t need a license at all! You just have to buy their copart membership and put down a deposit to be able to bid.
