After hunting at the junkyards for months, I have finally found a 1982 Maxima Diesel in a nearby U-Pull it junk yard.
I decided to take today off from work, because I have been putting in a lot of hours, and my wife and 15 year old son are very demanding of my time. I had just one important thing going on at work, so I took th day off. I got to the junkyard at about 9:30 (it's about an hour and a half from my house). There really weren't too many Z's or interesting cars there today. As I got to the last row of foreign cars THERE is was. A Maxima with the Diesel badge on the side. I was in the back. Do I dare look to see if the engine is still in it. O.K., let's see. THERE IT IS. Is has the funny shaped valve cover with DIESEL on it, and the odd shape head with the head bolts on the outside.
Oh, brother!! Now, I have my work cut out for me. And, I was going to go into the office for a while to do that one thing I have to do. Oh well, this is more important. I have my cell phone. They can always reach me if they have to.
Rubber gloves on, let's rock and roll. Working for about an hour, RING, RING, RING. Cell phone. Biggest client, Needs me to call her back and spend an hour going over some reports. Can't stop now. I agree to call her back in an hour. Still not done pulling engine. What to do? So I go to a local Office Depot, where you can receive and send faxes. My secretary sends me a faxed copy of the report. I call the client. We go over everything. She is happy. I fax changes of the report back to my secretary and go back to the junk yard. WORKING, WORKING, WORKING. Almost 5:00 P.M. Engine finally out. I wheel it to the front office of the junkyard. I can buy the whole engine for $99 dollars, plus core charge. I ask if I can buy just the crank. YES!! Much cheaper (I didn't ask). BUUUUTTT!! IT's 5:00 o'clock and the junkyard closes at 5:00. What to do? They say If I come back tommorrow when they open at 9:00, the engine will still be there and I can pull the crank. I can't wait.
I decided to take today off from work, because I have been putting in a lot of hours, and my wife and 15 year old son are very demanding of my time. I had just one important thing going on at work, so I took th day off. I got to the junkyard at about 9:30 (it's about an hour and a half from my house). There really weren't too many Z's or interesting cars there today. As I got to the last row of foreign cars THERE is was. A Maxima with the Diesel badge on the side. I was in the back. Do I dare look to see if the engine is still in it. O.K., let's see. THERE IT IS. Is has the funny shaped valve cover with DIESEL on it, and the odd shape head with the head bolts on the outside.
Oh, brother!! Now, I have my work cut out for me. And, I was going to go into the office for a while to do that one thing I have to do. Oh well, this is more important. I have my cell phone. They can always reach me if they have to.
Rubber gloves on, let's rock and roll. Working for about an hour, RING, RING, RING. Cell phone. Biggest client, Needs me to call her back and spend an hour going over some reports. Can't stop now. I agree to call her back in an hour. Still not done pulling engine. What to do? So I go to a local Office Depot, where you can receive and send faxes. My secretary sends me a faxed copy of the report. I call the client. We go over everything. She is happy. I fax changes of the report back to my secretary and go back to the junk yard. WORKING, WORKING, WORKING. Almost 5:00 P.M. Engine finally out. I wheel it to the front office of the junkyard. I can buy the whole engine for $99 dollars, plus core charge. I ask if I can buy just the crank. YES!! Much cheaper (I didn't ask). BUUUUTTT!! IT's 5:00 o'clock and the junkyard closes at 5:00. What to do? They say If I come back tommorrow when they open at 9:00, the engine will still be there and I can pull the crank. I can't wait.