Hey,
had a question and knew if anybody knew, you probably would. I have picked up a very rare 1988 turbo diesel Isuzu Trooper. Why are they rare? well first, you know about the failure of the diesels in the 80's because of smell and noise factor but most importantly, these came out of production because they had very weak rods. They would only last up to 100,000 miles, and a lot of times they wouldnt last 10,000 miles because the motor has a turbo and no rev limiter, blowing these little dudes apart because people revved them like gas engines.
All of these were still under warranty when about 5,000 of these 50,000 sold started breaking rods. So, they did an upgrade, called it rod 3234. Generation 1 rods were casting 3066 if this matters to you at all...
Well, some of these 2nd gen rods were breaking too, so they redesigned and beefed the heck out of them, strangely enough they also called them casting 3234.
I have access to one remaining rod, possibly the only brand new one left on the planet.
What is your price to manufacture 4 of them? They are forged steel.
