CR5.9/6sp has serious appeal. I do like the truck but it's noisy and 4x2 and needs a bed and rockers and now a motor (again) too.
reman motors are as much as a whole truck goes for.
I'll have time to wrench again after this weekend in Providence, and maybe feel like doing so a week or two after that. I think the truck may end up sitting for a bit while the TDI gets finished and I decide what to really do. I have to have a pushrod or lifter or something fucked right now, hopefully I can bandaid it a bit so it'll at least move itself in the mean time.
Pick up a whole donor truck ('01 auto 4x4 with a bad VP44 on CL for too much $, I'm sure there are others)? pull this motor and rebuild? pay a mint for a "new" motor? replace the truck and part it out? I dunno. I have a couple trailers I could sell and a couple bucks chilling, plus several sellable bits and pieces if I part DB.
I'd love a MDT but I don't want anything that's over about 6'6" tall. Monster Jam parking would get complicated and combining trips is a very important option to me. Speaking of which, I think that other thing we talked about is off the table for more pressing reasons than trailer parking, Arie
