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Message:: [QUOTE="x1Heavy, post: 8873326, member: 178676"]I would prefer you to think that it is good to have the hope and prayer over a prospective vehicle to be solid and dependable. However I have learned that sometimes a vehicle is disposed of because of the problems. I collected a vehicle like that some years ago, turned out the oxygen sensors were bad, both of them turning into a 500 dollar problem easily remedied. Another 180 sunk into a third engine block coolant sensor. It was 40 in the shop bay and it's insisting the liquid was -5 so its incorrect. Once the computer knew the right values she hummed nicely. Way better than the sick half in the grave rattle in wide open loop. Took a little money to get it together. And for me that was the advantage. A few parts, some shade tree work and tools by hand with a touch for computer where necessary. It's a small scale but there will be some more work yet this year working on the drive train fluids and so on. But I am not ready to call the vehicle solid. She needs some TLC yet and will get it. The very best? Take her out and run the hell out of it. Don't let her soot over inside that engine and gum everything up.[/QUOTE]