Advice for newbie

[JimT]

That price you offered would be good, but it's likely you'll need to sink another $20-30k into it in the first year. Between getting it road worthy to the unknowns that won't manifest until you start hauling with it, to all the heavy duty tool you'll need to perform some of the work yourself. Sounds like the truck was run hard for the first 5-6 years then sat for months on end between uses for the next 8 years. Beyond the engine there's gotta be a lot of things that are due to be fixed on that truck.