Posted by don in nh [96.61.72.163] on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 20:47:06 :
In Reply to: Re: It's me, confused again. posted by gmharris [71.105.35.249] on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 18:41:56 :
I would say that the truck is not worth putting thousands into a rebuild. It is worth a couple of hundred as a yard truck/plow/project. Unfortunately scope-creep, and the "while-I'm-in-there-I-should-do-this" drive up the costs.
As the patch-it-up numbers increase and start to approach a significant fraction of the price of a full rebuild, I have to start to wonder if it is worth the gamble to do things incrementally (which means all wasted if you go back and redo (thus the argument for a full rebuild)). Having no experience, it is hard, if not impossible, for me to ascertain the odds of my efforts and money being wasted - throwing good money after bad. So I hope for a smoking gun as evaluated from those willing to share their experience - e.g., if the consensus was that the ring gap/taper surely indicated junk, then I would just do the $40 fix and run it until it didn't work. Unfortunately I know there aren't absolutes, especially over the internet, so it gets gray for sure.
In the end, I've basically over analyzed the situation, where probably I should just fix what is broke, when its broke, until it can't be fixed any more. When/if I burn it up, then consider the alternatives. If I fix it all at once, there wouldn't be anything more fun to do with it, right?
Thanks for the therapy.
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