well, $1500 for the engine. the cheapest i can get someone to put that in around here is $1200.

that's $2700 that i don't have right now. plus the $1400 i dropped a few weeks ago for some other engine work would put me at $4100.

if i went to sell the vehicle after all work was done i could maybe get $4100.

right now it is all about economics at this point for me.
but thanks for the thought.

-Grant
'98 Montero with 135k miles