Learn me Isuzu?

I have the opportunity to buy a 1993 Isuzu trooper 5 speed with about 190,000 miles for about 400 dollars. How difficult is it to keep it running. Should I bite. or run away.

Which motor?

Jensenman? Paging jensenman to the blue courtesy phone.

a 93 Troop would have the 3.2

lots of info here: http://forum.planetisuzoo.com/

Sell it for scrap. Some people swear by them, I just swear at them.

Might not be worth the trouble then. Read that parts could get expensive.

Buy it! I just finished a 1,000-mile-long rock crawling trip in my trooper with 20 other troopers. It's been perfect.

The last two troopers I worked on had some parts that were very hard to find and a few of the parts were out of this world expensive. Both of the troopers have since been sold for scrap as no one else seemed to want them.

Over all not a bad riding truck but not a lot of parts supports.Good luck.

Paul B

Parts are easy to find and reasonably priced from "JLemond" on planetisuzoo. He's a great guy that can get anything and everything for you.

I think those are great vehicles and i would go for it.

My experience was from a DD point, the owners need to be at work today, good info in case I have another customer that comes in with one.

Tom Suddard wrote: Parts are easy to find and reasonably priced from "JLemond" on planetisuzoo. He's a great guy that can get anything and everything for you.

Yeah, that's the only thing. All of his parts beat or match Autozone prices and come new in the factory isuzu wrapping.

'92 was the first year for the 'big' Trooper and has the Isuzu designed 3.2 V6, it has a lot more bells and whistles than the earlier ones like Tommy's. There's two different V6's, the SOHC and the DOHC. Both are good motors but the DOHC has more grunt, that engine came only in the LS versions. Either way for $400 grab it and growl.

Mechanical stuff is readily available, trim parts (badges etc) might be tough to find.