I lost faith in my zd30 and now own a gu iv td 42ti.
Blown turbo was like 3000 to get a shop to do it. Nads install couple of hundred. New clutch and fly wheel 2000, gearbox let go 1500 for a second hand one and the straw that broke my back injectors went was going to cost 3000 car was worth 6000 so sold it for 3000 and that feeling of disaster and what if something goes wrong when I'm out in the bush has now vanished and I now enjoy 4wding again.
People love their car know what it does and holds sentiment value. Buying a new one with a better motor is normally more expensive than the conversions.
If I didn't get a good price for my current td42ti I would have done a conversion.
Not gospel but I believe a td42 conversion is about 15 000 and a l98 auto conversion (6.0 with 6 speed auto from a ss) is about 20000 IMHO I'd rather either of these than a 8-10000 rebuild of a zd30.
Obviously if you're handy on a spanner it gets cheaper
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