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Originally Posted by freebeard
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I haven't forgotten about your mention, I've been pretty busy lately. I took a quick peek at the thread/video and first impressions looks like it's a solid idea, but I mainly just looked at the basic design of it, didn't get to watch the video fully.
I picked up another parts truck for cheap again, exact same color and year as my truck, just automatic and rusted out. Runs great, trans works great. $900. I'm the kind of person to buy parts vehicles to have parts on hand if/when something breaks. Extra parts I sell to recoup costs, in theory I could sell the engine for around $1200-2000 and the trans should be worth $500ish. 100% I am not a fan of automatics in diesels, thing wanted to hold 2k rpm+ before it would shift, overdrive wanted 2500rpm to shift unless I let off the throttle to convince it to shift early. Horrible mpg shift pattern, I guess it's designed all out for towing, or it's programmed that way by an aftermarket programmer. Btw the truck came with a pair of good batteries, saving my dad around $300 from buying new ones for his truck, plus we have parts to swap over to test on his truck to get it going again (transmission shift problems). It also has a bunch of new parts on the engine, vacuum pump ($150ish), fuel pump, tentioner, and starter from memory.
I just got the starter in for the 2001 truck, too bad I didn't wait to save the $113.