If you look a while you can still find a clean not-used-up 20 year old Dodge Cummins.
Yank out the electronic Bosch VP44 injector pump and throw it as far off a cliff as possible.
Then install a pre-computer, mechanical Bosch P7100.
With the right fuel plate, delivery valves, injectors and turbos, you can make such stupid power that new stock diesel pickups are a joke... everyone is oohing and aahhing over measly 400-something horsepower while you have 700. It’ll cost you to build a transmission to handle it and some other upgrades so you don’t just scatter parts all over the street. But it won’t be $75,000.
And - it’ll run, period. No trouble codes, no check engine light, no DEF, no sensors, none of that garbage.
Of course, you don’t have to go nuts on the power, but you can easily have as much as a new truck plus simplicity, which equals reliability.
(The preceding message was brought to you by an old hot rodder who, every rare now and then, still blows someone’s doors off in his “grampa truck” just for fun. Reader discretion advised.)
