Tim,

Thank you for giving me an accurate idea of what I'm looking at to do this. Althought I would normally be very motivated and passionate about doing this, provided my specific situation, I think it's more realistic to decline from pursuing it. I live in a small apartment right now. Me and my wife just moved to San Diego from New Hampshire. I have few tools, limited space to work on it, and I checked with my manager to see if I could utilize any tools or space at the maintenance hangar at the airport I work at and that's a no-go. I feel a little dumb just selling it cause I will basically be taking a huge loss to what I paid for it, but it may be my only option.

I could hold onto it in hopes of finding another engine somewhere, but I know I would be super skeptical paying for another engine that I didn't know the history of. Have you ever pulled an engine from a yard? Are there any easy ways of finding out what yards have them or locating them and when you do, are there any signs you look for on the engine to determine whether you actually want to take it or not? After all the pricing of what you gave me to rebuild an engine myself, it actually seems to make more sense work-wise, and financially to go the route of buying a used engine and having a shop swap it out. But I still need to think on this.

Other than that, within this Van community, do you think this van is worth anything in parts? I mean, considering that they are hard to come by and this Van is super clean, do you think that selling it for parts or even selling individual parts off of it would be a way to go?