dude, it's a good vehicle, other than having a gm made engine, no offense, but other than the balls to the wall power the thing puts out, i'm not fond of my mom's '02 roedo's 3.2, it's just squirrely, but dude like JEEPN said, it sounds like you've done most of the stuff, my starter has gone bad, my trusty mechanic put in a high performance one in there instead, problem solved and i can trust him to fix it if it breaks, other than that, i just make sure i stay up on maintenance, i think i'm gonna invest in a new higher output alternator when the next large sum of money comes in, but dude you're coming up on the 100k mark, things are gonna have to be replaced, but hold on to your 'Zu things are gonna break, i went through this too, wonderin if it was worth it, then i realized everything has its prblems and my zu is in GREAT shape, runs like a champ, and for a '97 that's rare and i attribute that to Isuzu and stayin up on oil changes and what not, keep your chin up man, besides aren't you waitin on your lift?
i thought we were gonna put that sucker in?!?!?!