jspaulding37918
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My 08 f350 needs a new engine. I bought the truck in September and financed 16000. In october the turbos failed and it's been downhill from there. Replaced the turbos with a used set $750. replaced front cover $700. deleted egr and cat $450. bought a used tuner that didn't work $700. bought another brand new tuner with gearhead tunes $750. replaced the crank sensor and fuel rail pressure sensors $200. burned up 3 starters $250. all the time I've spent under the hood of the truck trying to fix it instead of spending time with my family $uncalculable.
after all the parts/time I threw at the truck I was never able to get it to run so I towed it to a mechanic who sat on it for 3 weeks without touching it, he finally got started on it yesterday. I thought a couple teeth got tore off the flywheels so he pulled the trans/transfer case and started to figure out the problem. The center of the flywheel was completely tore off and the ring of the flywheel was all that was hooked to the torque converter. when he went to try and remove the flywheel bolts, they wouldn't break free so he tried heating them and got nowhere. when he was trying to loosen them he noticed about 1/2" movement side to side on the crankshaft. apparently my engine suffered catastrophic bearing failure and it wasn't caught in time. I've tried contacting the dealer I bought the truck from and they said there is nothing they can/will do for me since I bought the truck in September and it's now May and I signed the paper saying it was "As is".
As you all know, these engines aren't cheap, the best deal I could find so far was for a complete used engine for $9200 and it had 82000 miles on it. What do you guys think I should do? Legally there is nothing I can do toward the car lot since I did sign the as is paper. but I can't afford to keep throwing money at this truck either. as it is I'll not be able to get the money together for about a year and that's saving every last extra penny we have.
I'm sorry for such a long post but I'm at my wits end and wanted to give as much detail as I possibly could. Thanks for reading
after all the parts/time I threw at the truck I was never able to get it to run so I towed it to a mechanic who sat on it for 3 weeks without touching it, he finally got started on it yesterday. I thought a couple teeth got tore off the flywheels so he pulled the trans/transfer case and started to figure out the problem. The center of the flywheel was completely tore off and the ring of the flywheel was all that was hooked to the torque converter. when he went to try and remove the flywheel bolts, they wouldn't break free so he tried heating them and got nowhere. when he was trying to loosen them he noticed about 1/2" movement side to side on the crankshaft. apparently my engine suffered catastrophic bearing failure and it wasn't caught in time. I've tried contacting the dealer I bought the truck from and they said there is nothing they can/will do for me since I bought the truck in September and it's now May and I signed the paper saying it was "As is".
As you all know, these engines aren't cheap, the best deal I could find so far was for a complete used engine for $9200 and it had 82000 miles on it. What do you guys think I should do? Legally there is nothing I can do toward the car lot since I did sign the as is paper. but I can't afford to keep throwing money at this truck either. as it is I'll not be able to get the money together for about a year and that's saving every last extra penny we have.
I'm sorry for such a long post but I'm at my wits end and wanted to give as much detail as I possibly could. Thanks for reading
