That truck is the same one I looked at a few months back. It's from Minnesota (or maybe it was Wisconsin, I can't remember for sure) and is a total disaster. I have never seen so much rust on everything. The rear axle and frame rails are measurably thinner then they are on my truck. The "minor" front brake work he mentions is that he ran the pads down to the metal backing plates, then kept driving it. The front left rotor's inner face is literally as thin as a dime and I bent a little bit by hand. The pad (or what was left of it) slipped out on him and jammed back into the caliper on the wrong side and I am pretty sure the piston cracked as a result. That's the only place I could determine the brake fluid could be coming from. Then there's that "recently" he talks about in the add. That was 40K miles ago and it looks like the work was done by an amateur or at least a very sloppy mechanic so I wouldn't trust it too much.

Sure it's $1200, but just to get driving it will need new front rotors (and probably rear, they were very thin too), at least one new caliper, fuel pump, most of the rubber and bushings underneath, and a complete work through to see if it really will run. In a short time, it will probably need the timing belt again, and he said they did not do the water pump when the belt was done last time. Assuming that's it, then there's a lot of rust rehabbing to be done. Some spots on the frame, axle, control arms and front suspension were bad enough that I would be worried about stress cracking and complete failure. I know Toasty and some of the others here have the skill to take it completely apart and put it back together again, but then I am not sure that this particular truck is worth the effort....