2016 peterbilt 579

[Rawze]

(02-04-2021 )65transport Wrote:  If that’s the case and it does in fact need an inframe what would that truck be worth?

maybe 18k on a good day + dropping it over at Mr.hags for a reliable million-mile+ type custom inframe to the tune of another $25k or so before it is all said and done.

You'll be into it at about 45-48k at that point + the $5k or so to chase all the neglect of the rest of the truck... totalling about $50 - 53k or so by the time you get it 100% road worthy again.

You also did not mention the rear axle ratio... Another $4700~ish to re-gear it if it has anything much taller than about 3.55's so that the engine isn't lugged to death below 1500 rpm's and it happens all over again. The market is flooded with trucks that are geared wrong, lugged to death in the name of forced-company driver fuel mileage savings specs at the cost of the engine life + that 500k - 600k mileage range where they will loose head gaskets and all sorts of ill-fates ... meaning the engine is done for at that point and these fleets who sell em well know it.