I am back to working on the D-50 - the "Check Engine" light has been pestering me. I finally pulled the trouble codes, and it's fairly pedestrian stuff, except the idle servo. RockAuto doesn't offer one, and the engine temperature sending unit (for the ECU) isn't available, either (just the one for the gauge). The oxygen sensor is no biggie.


I've made a lot of progress since my stroke and it's good to be back in the garage. I have more work to do on the truck: it's due up for inspection, this month, and I have some frame rust issues to contend with. Meanwhile, I want to get it running good as I can. Some of the things I replaced 50,000 miles ago are due up for replacement, but HEY! I got 50,000 miles out of the work I put into it at the beginning of this thread!! (I recently had to replace the clutch cable, which broke at precisely the best possible time and place - as I was backing it into my garage!)

Someone had said that these little trucks respond to the love you put into them, and I can testify that they do.

This thread has topped 100,000 views - who'd have thought that?