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re: new engine or new car?
Posted on 10/25/14 at 6:12 pm to RexfordW
Posted on 10/25/14 at 6:12 pm to RexfordW
For $2,000 you can get new engine in that truck.....or you can buy another used truck with an old worn out motor.
Seems like an easy choice to me. Keep the truck and get a new engine.
What you paid for the Jimmy is a sunk cost and is irrelevant. If you can get a used truck with a new engine (which should serve you many miles) for $2,000, then this would be an easy choice....but that isn't the case. The types of vehicles for sale at $2,000 are well worn and certainly won't have a new motor.
I'd get the new motor. It's an easy choice.
Seems like an easy choice to me. Keep the truck and get a new engine.
What you paid for the Jimmy is a sunk cost and is irrelevant. If you can get a used truck with a new engine (which should serve you many miles) for $2,000, then this would be an easy choice....but that isn't the case. The types of vehicles for sale at $2,000 are well worn and certainly won't have a new motor.
I'd get the new motor. It's an easy choice.
This post was edited on 10/25/14 at 6:17 pm
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Posted on 10/25/14 at 8:05 pm to member12
I had a similar dilemma a couple of months ago. My tranny went out on my 01 dodge 4 wheel drive. The truck is sort of a beater, but mechanically, it was sound, short of the tranny. The truck isn't worth much, but if rebuilding the tranny could just save me from having to make new truck payments for a year of two, then the 1800 dollars would be more than worth it, so I got it rebuilt.
Posted on 10/25/14 at 9:29 pm to sparkinator
I had the manual transmission in my 03 Ranger rebuilt a few months ago for basically the same reason. 189k miles but somebody had put the wrong clutch in it that had way too much plate, basically wore out the bearings prematurely. Still shifted fine but made noise in 3rd and 5th. Local shop turned it around in 3 days with all OEM parts and with the proper OEM clutch it should easily last 200k more.
Posted on 10/25/14 at 10:35 pm to Napoleon
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But that truck has a low resale value, and after the engine you will be upside down on it. A 90'S Blazer/Jimmy is in that "$1000 car realm"
Should have bailed when the transmission went. Does the AC still work? That's gonna go next. Been there with a 90s GM, tried that man.
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