good deal chadnutz....want a cookie?
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good deal chadnutz....want a cookie?
hey eric - i dont know where your fuel pump thread is so i am gonna just post this up here - i would buy that caddy from you but just dont have the driveway space, money, time, so on (insert whatever excuse you want) - i would like to see you keep it and drive it if i cant, they are pretty cheap to run. the head on yours is prob cracked - they get really small cracks in between the valves. you can get another one for 400ish. you will have to get a new head gasket obviously. It is not too much harder to do rings and rod bearings while you have the head off and then you can really run it for a while. My dad and I prob did heads on three of these motors, we had three rabbits, two trucks and two jettas over the years. all diesels. I might even be able to scrounge up a manual we have for them. I can help you out, just let me know.
ps - unless you go turbo - this is more of an around town car. they are slow, but get good mileage. i filled mine up once a month in high school - 12 or so gallons. i dont know what fuel economy was since the odo didnt work.
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Originally Posted by Fredo
Dang, I am not dropping $400 into it. I was just kidding about asking if you still wanted it though, I'm getting psyched to drive it. If it's really that ridiculously slow I'll probably ebay it though. Prices have gone up lately!Quote:
Originally Posted by Seth
hey, can I still get in on this? My old chevy had over 200k on it, and ran fine even after catching fire once. Now that I think of it, the taco is just about the only truck I've had that hasn't caught fire or accidently been set on fire at some point :eek:
200,000 on a chevy is nothing to write home about. On a ford though, you should call CNN, MSNBC and the History Channel.
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Originally Posted by afroman006
I can attest to chevy's lasting a long time. My pop's 2001 3/4ton has over 250,000 on the odometer and is still going.
227k on the drunk bus. all orginal parts
211k on the best 4x4xfar
Don't have time to read this entire thread as I have 3000 other posts to catch up on (literally), but I thought I would mention that every station here in brazil, even way out in the amazon, has regular gas, diesel, natural gas AND Ethanol. I just read an article on CNN that brazil heavily incented manufacturers to start supporting Ethanol so that the country would become a net-exporter of oil, instead of the reverse (like the US). They met this goal over two years ago and prices have been fairly stable since. They are not super cheap, but are significantly less than US prices.
Oh, and here's a pic of a natural gas running mini-pickup with an engine not much bigger than a weed whacker - caught it filling up at the station.