Should I buy with these problems?

[rage707]

Hey All,

Im lookin at a 93 GT with a couple problems. The clutch engages REAL high, around the top 1-2 inches of travel. Can this be fixed with an adjustable quadrant or does it need a new clutch? The car hit a guardrail at pretty low speeds, and the pass. side got a little hit up. It needs new headlight assm., fender massaging, and header panel replacement. Is this header replacement an easy and somewhat cheap fix? The guy will take 1500, sound cheap enough?

Thanks a lot guys

Andy

 

[Daggar]

Move to TALK

 

[super302]

don't buy some body elses problems...keep looking

 

[qplk11]

If the rest of the car is in really good shape, I'd consider it.

 

[Copperstang87]

If the clutch engages real high then the clutch cable needs to b adjusted no biggie, or buy an aftermarket one. Doors and fenders can b fixed easy but whats the floors like? is it a bondo car? 1500US sounds cheap but I wouldnt buy it if the floors r shot and the motor runs like a bag of *****.

 

[SamSnyder]

The real question on a crashed 5.0 is: Does it drive and stop straight? My '90 LX has been crashed a couple of times (not my fault), and after the last one I think I would have tried to get it totaled if I knew then what I know now, because it has never been straight since. I am currently running caster/camber plates that, with the proper adjustment, make it drive as straight as stock, but since I know that it takes an extra degree of caster to make it do so, it really bugs me. I am sort of compulsive about it, but knowing that it takes a full degree of extra caster on one side to make it drive straight just bugs me. Something is bent down there and for the life of me I can't figure it out, and I guess no one ever will. Just unibody tweekage I guess. But if yours currently drives and stops straight with (I assume) stock strut mounts, I wouldn't worry about it -- cosmetic stuff is pretty standard issue on these cars at the low end of the price range. But everything else is secondary -- does it track straight, handle well, and stop straight?

 

[SamSnyder]

P.S. The clutch issue is a non-issue: sounds just like a mal-adjusted quadrant, and besides the fact that tweaking the factory unit can correct it, aftermarket ones are completely adjustable. Moreover, you want it to engage high anyway so that you won't blow any shifts. If it's working at the top, you are less likely to miss a shift. High is better than low in that regard.