westernrvparkowner wrote:
MrWizard wrote:
I already have an RV that costs me more than it's worth, and it was running perfectly when I got it in 2010
You never know when you will lose a radiator, or turbo, or injection pump, etc
And everything on a diesel engine is a big expense
He could spend $25,000 or $100,000 on another RV and blow something in a few months
He could put this all together and get another ten years or more use,
You just don't know
Agree he could send $25,000 or $100,000 and it could fail, but he wouldn't pay $35,000 for that $25,000 rig or $125,000 for that $100,000 rig. Paying in excess of $15,000 plus putting in many hours of labor for a 1992 Bounder is overpaying in my opinion.
Yes if he were buying the engine
That was the point of his posting, he has an RV with a good engine and bad body delamination
All he has to invest is $3000 to buy the BOUNDER
And the use his existing engine
Besides labor his transplant costs should be relatively minor
All this talk about engine repair was a detour from the main topic of engine transplant
Or he could just sell the running RV he now has
And use that money to help finance an engine repair
It's not like he's starting from scratch, buying salvage and doing a rebuild
