im lookin to buy a 1978 Chevy single cab short box K-10. it has a 6 inch lift on it with 36s. 350 in it with a 4 speed. locks in front and back. new motor in 97. needs a bit of interior work though. other then that its in pretty good condition. wonderin what you guys would pay for it?

hes put a new engine in it in 97. put new tires on it a while back. i dont know if he put the lift kit on it or not, but hes askin 4000 for it, sound reasonable?
thanks for the help.  

he could be refering to some minor mechanical or body work that may need to be done. how much you pay for depends on how much he asking and what he has done/invested in the truck.  

I do not think it is reasonable at all unless axles have been upgraded front and rear and properly regeared for larger tire size too. (bigger axles with D60 up front) as 38's is really pushing it with stock axles. On more thing, lockers up front are not cool at all unless it is a manually selectable one, not a spider gear replacement as it will make it harder to guide at times and and cause steering bind and whip in tight turns in 4x4 drive. (also real hard on front axle shafts too) I suspect current owner has found out that it is not what it is cracked up to be and looking to recoup losses. Also a new engine in 97 is 11 years old today and far from new or getting a premium in price for it. Keep looking.  

thanks for the info. i checked today and it has 36s on it. and your sayin i would want to see if the front lockers are maunual. and how big would i want the axles upgraded to?  

Different people have different "standards" but I consider std axle pretty solid with 33's and marginal with 35's and anything more than that, Russian roulette. On the lockers, if it does not have a switch or a level to activate it, it is not a manual locker. Spider gear replacement locker have no ability at all to power booth front wheels at differing speeds, (like in turns and guiding it) zip, zero nada... It is 2wd same speed or 1wd with one wheel coasting in a turn (outside wheel) under little or no power.  

hes got 411s in it. not spiders. i asked him how much he thought he would go down and he said somewhere in the low $3500s so idk. its old tho 78, i was thinkin more like $2700, and needs some work.  

Maybe 2500 or so. BTW, some think 4.10/4.11 are great gears for any thing but they are not. They are great for stock type tires but not for 36's. Back then most trucks came with a 4.10/4.11 option and they did well with stock tires but with 36's it is about like a 3.23 to 3.42 with stock tires and it pretty tall over all. Many seem to have a mind block on regearing axle properly and loose a lot of potential and then when trannies and such fail they blame it on junk trannies not wrong gears for tires being used.  

hey sno man i think it is? thanks for the help. im not gunna get it though. i talked him down to 2700. but in the end it was just a bit old. other then that the 350 was hott, better than expected. he said it had a 4 barrel on it though, what did he mean by this? and im kinda new to all this stuff to haha. im gunna keep lookin for a newer yota hopefully.  

It is kinda easy to understand that someone might not know what a 4 barrel is being that they have not been used on new cars for almost 20 years now. It is the number of throttle bores in the carburetor. They are also called "barrels". More bores flow more air into engine with less pressure drop.(sometimes they are called 4V too which is same thing) With a 4 barrel it running on the front two bores at part throttle for better throttle response and all 4 WOT (Wide Open Throttle) The style 4 barrel GM used then had small front bores that proved crisper response yet with better mixing of fuel because the velocity of air through it was higher part throttle than it would be in bores were bigger and this velocity is important to better fuel/air mixing at lower RPM's and throttle settings. This style carb was also called a spread bore carb because the front bores were small than rear and on a different centering too.  

i JUST BOUGHT A 78' $500 BUT IT WAS IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE IF THE TRUCK IS AS GOOD CONDITION AS U SAY IT IS $3000 NO MORE THAN THAT JUST MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WORKS, AND FOR WHAT DOESNT FIND OUT THE COST AND GO FROM THERE. MY TRUCK CAME WITH 8" RANCHO SUSP., BF 35'S 12 BOLT REAR AND 10 BOLT FRONT 3:73'S 4SPEED TRANS 205 TRANSFER AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS GETTING REPLACED