It sort of sounds like your son should go and lease or buy a new minimal
vehicle (Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla maybe) and take it in to the
dealer for routine service. A new vehicle should give him relatively
trouble free service for the length of the lease or payment plan and
then he should turn it in and get another. He has not had good luck with
vehicles and some of that is likely due to a lack of attention to them
on his part.
You personally may well be able to keep an old vehicle moving forward
but it does not sound like he has the same skills or interests and if he
is no where near you for help and assistance, he needs a vehicle that
will not cause him trouble.
My elder son is not good at that sort of thing either. When he lived
here, my mechanic younger son and I kept an eye on the elder son's
vehicle and made the repairs. When he moved to a new job, 1200 miles
away, we encouraged him to get a new vehicle and he did. He got a new
Mazda 3. It has served him well so far.
On 15/08/2019 9:41 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Cheep engines crap out early and often. Therefore good used engines
are scarce and EXPENSIVE. They are the most expensive junkyard
engines. Its probably not worth a crate engine. A sbc may be an
option, but probably not worth it. Probably time to sell it, lick his
wounds and buy a old frod or dogde peekup. (Or suggested exploder)
A guy I know who buys junk at the auto auction and puts in engines,
trans or whatever is needed to make em run so he can sell em, gave me
the story on the cheep engines. He also said earlier exploders are
built so that it should be easy to stick an OM617 in them.
Clay Monroe via Mercedes wrote on 8/14/19 9:50 PM:
The Cheep Crap Cherkee of #1 boy, the one with the inquiry about how
to measure ATF level seems to have crapped itself. Not sure of the
extent of damage, but too many sensors were feeding the wrong data
and it went into terminal limp mode. Knocking something horrid and
not wanting to drive or run. Many failure lights on the dash and a
plethora of codes. The owner wants support for a way forward.
Should he attempt a rebuild of the engine or toss in a supposed good
one?
My feelings were that he not waste time on a rebuild, but to put
something running in and save for a more reliable vehicle. Like a
300TD or an SDL. My opinion. Better that he get an early frod
exploder or other less computer controlled ride to get him to and
from work. His corner of ND has a frod store and a
chrypsler/fiat/cheep outlet. He was not sure about chebby.
clay
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