Joey said:
.....the engine and upgrades alone are worth way more than the price listed....
This is where the problem is. Although the truck might be a good price to someone looking for a RRC with a 4.6, 4.11:1's, locker, etc..., the target audience is going to be very small. The truck itself is a pile of shit. It looks like shit and is rusted to shit. That may not matter to someone looking to cut it up and make a buggy, or looking to rob the parts from it to "build" their own truck. You certainly could not buy these specific parts for $3k. But finding the person looking for these exact parts is going to be hard.
This truck is not worth $3k to the average buyer. It's not worth $3k to the salvage dealer, either. The average buying is not looking for a rusted out pile of shit, and the price is too high for a the salvage man to make any money, especially if he's got to ship the truck home.
This is one of those trucks you either part out yourself, or you say fuck it and take the loss by selling it for $1,500. $3k is a bit excessive as a whole, although it does have some really nice parts on it worth some money. If parted out he could get over $4,500 total. At the right price, the diff's and axles would sell overnight.