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Funny, but kinda wrong. Not original discoverer. Earliest possible departure date for Amerigo Vespucci from Spain was 1499. Columbus was 1492, and if being pedantic about continents vs. islands, explored South America on his third trip in 1498. And it should be Italian... they were both...

OK, now I'm even more nervous. :eek: How bad did I fuck up? Go ahead and break it to me...

Checked it out, and bit. Made sense to me to make it a separate thread: http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?p=694977

OK, here goes... I ended up biting on that 96 disco. (See thread here: http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59899 ) I'm still nervous about it personally, but wife loves it, wanted it, and says putting some money in it is fine by her, including selling our old one if neccessary...

Well, if anyone wants that 99 D1 at power mazda in salem, they are welcome to it. Be prepared for a lot of work. Between the lube joint and the mech, all of the leaks started springing to life. At first it was just "hey, I didn't see that one before". Then it was "whoah". I was having second...

Hmm. Something is going on in the drivetrain. At pretty much any speed, when I let up on the gas and coast there is a funny sound. A metallic scrape of some sort that is hard to hear but can be felt in the throttle foot too. Sometimes a little louder. This is one of those funny sounds I...

I do hear a little bit of liquid slosh near the passenger footwell when first started, with the first few revs. Does it again after idling a bit.

Ok I've got the 99 checked out to me and the shop appt isn't till 2 so I have some time alone with it. Transfer case beep comes on when shifting it and stays on. Can usually get it to shut up by shifting it around from one setting to another, but there isn't any consistant trick that does it...

Looking at the carfax for the 99, I saw one place serviced it for a good chunk of its lifetime. (appx 40-100k miles). So I called 'em up, and they told me everything they'd done other than oil changes and routine maint. Sounded good. Wasn't much. A leaking rear diff, axle seals. Fan...

Hmm. Could it be different for the 99 since it was on the way out? That's what I always thought too, until I saw this truck. I've checked this SD out multiple times and it is an SD. But except for the moonroofs and 3rd row seating, it has everything else. At least everything else my SE has...

Ok, after another test drive and round or two of haggling with the dealer, the 99 is down to $2000 and they will let me sign it out for the mechanic to check first. It went something like this (paraphrasing and leaving out lots): Me: I might still be interested. Let's go for another ride but I...

Thanks, I think I'll do that tonight. If they let me take it for a proper spin, if the leaks don't look any worse, if they will actually go all the way down to $2000, and agree to let my mechanic inspect it first... I just might take it. When I left off they weren't all the way down to $2000...

Heh... That's pretty much why in the previous thread I was asking if I was crazy to be even considering another rover for this at all. No one said I was, so here I am. :out:

That's pretty much what I figure... I'm just hoping whatever I get can give me at least a year before it does. Hopefully more, but at least a year.

Thanks for the input... that's why I'm posting. :cool: I figure if I was about to do something really stupid without realizing it, someone would surely pounce on me. And that's a good thing! The 96 is here: http://salem.craigslist.org/cto/1221814947.html And the 99 is here...