Looking at buying this 96 mitsubishi. It had a wireing harness fire around the engine area. "supposedly" ran great before this happened. He is including another harness with it. Whats it worth? If I can get into it for 1500 bucks am I doing ok?
I didnt see any other damage other than melted wires on top of the motor, but its hard to say where other damage may be i guess.
bottom line is whats the price? I'd say easily 2g's. Wiring is a PITA but your talking about saving a few grand.
Even if the motor ends up fried the rest of the body/parts will get your $ back...you can also count on a few vacuum lines being toasted as well..try to keep track of them before removing if possible
Thanks, think it would be best to lift the cab off to do the harness swap?Didnt look like motor was very accessable,lol
Look up Dan Hull on facebook. he is in the minitrucktalk group. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Mini-Trucks-wwwMiniTruckTalkcom/342768687336 he has several daihatsu trucks and one he bought had an engine fire and he stripped the cab down and cleaned it and rebuilt it. latest exterior picture they had some flooding down there and between that and a new horse arena the truck got put on that back burner lol
Thanks for the link!!! Wow, that thing got a bit warm huh? The one Im trying to get dont even have seat damage, so Im hoping its not much of a job....I do remember noticing the belts were missing off the pullys,one was hanging there though...LOL
hard to believe the owner doesn't fix it and get 2-3 times more....but hey.... his loss your gain.... I got an air box for a mitz it came with my suzi
fingers crossed for ya...keep us posted on the harness swap...I don't recall one being written up on the forum so it would be an asset to have your input while it's being done
Unfortunatly the rebuild has came to a screeching halt. Monday morning my GF rolled her car. We got her out of the ICU yesterday,but she is still in the nuerology wing.Its been a hell of a week......from brain bleeds to broken legs..Her brain appears to be healing well,time will tell I guess. With the 2 broken legs she is going to need my attention more than the truck. Hoping to get on here when I can and do some research..gonna need a few parts like hoses and belts so if anyone has a sourse for those let me know.... Dont take anything for granted in life!!!
oh man thats horrible! prayers are with you and your GF. for the belts you can just tie some string around the pulleys and take it down to the parts store and have them match it up. Hoses you would have to search for and match up. Most parts stores carry 1" heater hose probably equivalent to the radiator hose on that thing. Sounds like the fire was pretty bad. Might want to have a look at the timing belt before you crank it over.
Thanks...yah,it was a little worse than I thought,but not a deal killer by any means.is the timing belt visible on these?corner of the radiator is melted as well.....fan looks fine though...
timing belt is probably under a cover. Kinda makes you wonder what he did to cause the harness to burn up.
Im almost wodering if it wasnt a gas fire that roasted the wires. Wire damage seems to be contained around the engine area.
thoughts and prayers to your Gf..hope everything is ok....you may be better off finding a blown engine and grabbing all the ancillaries
well.. .thats a little worse than i expected but you did well on the price. You have a bunch of work ahead of you. get a good soldering iron and some small shrink wrap.
