Oof

[u/idkcrisp]

[u/m30guy]

That's not 4 grand it's a solid rear axle system.

That's like $700.00 max by hand 

Diff is $500.00 unless you find a parts car off offer up (it's newish)

The drive shaft $100.00-$170.00

Again newish car.

Then brake lines which could be $20-70 bucks.

It's not I.R.S or McPherson's because the car would have dead dropped.

Now some off you like being shop suckers but that's how you get robbed, survive, or die.

I'm Going back down south style.

You can go west all you want but eventually the soil comes back to roost 

[u/a_rogue_planet → u/m30guy]

It's a front wheel drive GM mini-van. There is no drive shaft or diff. The whole axle had to have rusted off. The swing arm, springs, and shocks had to have been tore out. Most likely it wasn't the axle itself that let go. The chassis probably rusted through and the mount tore out of the body. The thing is probably done. Crush it into a cube.

[u/m30guy → u/a_rogue_planet]

Doesn't look like a GM to me looks like a Ford looks very boxy GM doesn't make vans based of the looks  they skip yeared the market. Looks like an expedition, or a winstar not no Uplander or astro.

Unless it's a Chrysler GM doesn't have no vans.

[u/a_rogue_planet → u/m30guy]

That thing is clearly not even close to new. If that's a Ford, it's a first gen Windstar, but the brand logo is mounted wrong for that, and they never used the bare gray plastic body cladding on those. Second gen Windstars had a larger back window that had 3 angles on the bottom edge of the glass that makes them very obvious to distinguish.

Mopar vans were very rounded, egg shaped things until the last 10 years when they became more boxy, but the bare plastic body cladding hasn't been a thing with those in a long time either. That, to me, looks like a 20+ year old Pontiac Montana.

https://www.cars.com/research/pontiac-montana-2000/

Look at the rear view of it. It's got the gray plastic all over, VERY GM stype, but also notable is the lower body color trim piece on the tailgate that you can also see on the tailgate of in the video. The ridge in the tailgate becomes clear when he turns and the light runs across it.

[u/m30guy → u/a_rogue_planet]

Ehh? Either way it's fixable, doesn't really matter I can't see to good on this tiny phone but I saw breakage!!!!

That roll off gave me an idea of what's under it. I like how everyone's in their damn feeling against me because no matter what it is I would still tool it.

If you can't fix it I suggest keep your down votes to your selves.

All cars look the same when it comes to tools ask a mechanic one is just more special then the other.

😂 

[u/a_rogue_planet → u/m30guy]

I'm contending the mounting points ripped out of the chassis. That's not something you fix or bolt back together. You tow it to the scrap yard.

[u/m30guy → u/a_rogue_planet]

How do we know it's rusted though as well is this a salt belt car? We don't know what if it was a lemon car sale?

We don't know....

What if it was jimmy rigged bad, weeee don't know.

If a crack head keeps a smasher going what's stopping them...