Quote:Rajvik wrote:Oh, I already know. S'why I want to get my hands on an engine-core and transmission-core - that way, as I said before, I already have them on hand to rebuild at my leisure. And I just did a bit of digging around, and it seems that there are after-market ECMs available for my truck, and probably will be for quite a while given how long these beasties tend to last. (Seriously, the going consensus around here is, 'As long of the frame is still good.' And even then!)
No just, no. First off there's no way of it working short of replacing engine and transmission, though honestly you're probably going to be looking at that sooner rather than later. And even worse is that there will come a day that you're going to have to hid your baby goodbye.
Really, now I think my one major concern is the rust. One of Scrappy's previous owners apparently lived in the State of New York for some time and it's a miracle that Scrappy is in as good of shape as he is now. (The guy must have refrained from driving him in the worst of it.) Even so, I've been finding myself having to replace a number of underbody parts that have succumbed to metal fatigue (prime example: leaf springs). I know for certain that at some point in time I'll need to have the poor feller stripped to the frame and sandblasted... and then have the frame oil coated. But I'll save that for much further in the future as something of a restoration project. (By that point I may as well have the paint redone as well. Not like he doesn't need that!)