Except that this is the one that's underneath the turbo so it will be tighter to get off and back on. The "I just haven't had time to fix it" doesn't fly very far with me. It's sounds just like an excuse. My experience with this is mostly from the later 80's and earlier 90's 302 and 351W engines, especially the ones in trucks. They had a really tall upper intake plenum that had to be removed in order to change out the passenger's side valve cover gasket. I haven't ran into one person who actually changed one of those leaking gaskets except for me. It was harder than it should have been to change a vavle cover gasket, but it still wasn't brain surgery. The worst one was a guy who liked Fords, but swore that the 302 was the biggest POS ever made. It was because he had one burn up in a truck. When I pressed him about it, the passenger's side valve cover gasket leaked so much oil onto the exhaust manifold that it caught on fire. i told him that it wasn't the engine's fault that he was just too f*&%ing lazy to change the leaking gasket.
This, right here is ALL that counts. As long as you're happy with it, then it doesn't matter what anybody else may say. It's now yours. Make it truly yours by doing what you want to it. These trucks just get better with age and upgrades. 30 years ago, they were just like all the rest, but today, as you upgrade it how you want, they are one of a kind.
I have to agree here. It does seem like a steep price. i would think that a crew cab would be more worth the asking price. I just had a friend text me an ad for a 1986 F350 crew cab, single axle, 4X4, with a 4 speed. The asking price is $3500. I may have been interested in it if I didn't already have 3 1/2 trucks that all need work.
