Amazing find! this truck amazes me, the more i look at it the more I"m amazed at how little use you can see on it. A little background for you, I have a Problem my wife says. Being a fan of trucks since a child (Father a diesel mechanic) then in college owning my first Honda car i began to understand just how good the Japanese can build vehicles. with a Camry with 381,000 miles i bought when my 17 year old was 6 months old and owning service businesses that need trucks I"ve become the Isuzu guru. 2 years ago i flew an employee to Minnesota to get 2 Isuzu"s i won via auction he asked if he could take his cousin to drive the other. fast forward to a few months ago and the cousin who owns a towing company is asked by a storage facility to remove 5 vehicles owned by an estate. he finds out that vehicles where owned by a local man that had passed away a few years ago in his 90"s. he literally called me while standing there and said I know you"ll want this one I said send a pic. .saw it and was like i"m tired of those old ones (92-95 not so great style with indirect injected 4bd2t) with no power but knew i was going to go look at it in am...not being super impressed (had seen truck there for awhile from highway) i got closer and after finishing a phone call got out of car and as i got closer thought...thing is pretty straight, no dents, cool short thing. opened the door wow manual exporters love them, an in car cell phone? how did that survive?? no rips in seats? none in dash? hmmm what year is it. ..1990!!!!!!!!!!!!! its 4BD1T!!!! direct injection! with a 5 spd! trying not to get excited. .(hadn"t lifted cab yet) hmmm lets see mileage. .0 a zero! 047,670 miles! cab is coming up THERE SHE IS...with no inter-cooler, the simple reliable, probably the absolute peak of the diesel engine time line as we know it. to many people this is a joke, i"ll admit it only has 127hp...and it doesn"t cost 60-70 thousand dollars and can"t pull 30,000 pounds, no heated seats, GPS, no satellite radio, it doesn"t have a variable geometry turbo, no unit fired injectors, no egr, no particulate filter, no def fluid needed, no inter-cooler, no compressed graphite block, no aluminum head, no map sensor, no water separator sensor, (has visual float) no ac compressor, no power windows, no power locks, no key-less entry, no key fob, no remote start, no heated mirrors, no seat heater, can"t plug in my IDSS computer system to check codes, just old school 2 valve push-rod diesel reliability with inline pump pushing a couple thousand psi of fuel directly into combustion chamber via some simple nozzle holders. KIKI diesel injection pumps were licensed bosch became zexel then bosch bought zexel. .simple simple simple stuff.
I know I rambled on. ..and without starting the debate about the epa and emissions etc etc etc. .I still have to say that these good old trucks are really honestly just going to be a thing of the past before we know it. .you buy a kubota 20HP engine today you are buying basically this same technology...tried and true. I want to new owner to be happy with purchase, id think if you had a craft or vended a couple dozen events a years and needed a small box truck, or a go cart, motorcycle racer, church group...its not the truck to buy to start a business to compete with fed ex, or probably not to give to an american employee either...export be great but don"t think you"ll be willing to pay with truck is worth. .be prepared to get hands dirty it will need a little love but you"ll be buying the most fuel efficient, most reliable, fun to drive cab over and being saving a part of history. Happy to answer any questions, i"ll be titling it into my wife"s name this week i have bought and sold 30 plus Isuzu"s trucks i have 5 in my company currently and 3 more out back i probably should get professional help for this problem but then again i"ll be dead in 50 years, I"m not a licensed dealer i just like trucks..good luck!
