Yeah, The 350 Diesel is a problematic engine. The first one in my car however, by some stroke of miracle survived more than 398,000 miles 'til it blew up. Previous owner took great care of the whole car. When the engine went bad, it was covered under the original factory recall for the engine. As a result of this, he took money out of his pocket to have the tranny, and rear end rebuilt. He had a higher speed torque converter, and shift kit installed with it. The dealer, somehow after installing the engine and all of this work managed to talk the guy into a new car and trading the wagon in. I managed to snag the wagon for $700.00 from the dealership who had just finished all of the work. I've barely put 500 miles on the car since I've owned it. It literally has a brand new drivetrain in it. When I first bought it I installed Flowmaster dual exhausts on the car. It runs perfect. Being that the engine was done in 2006 it is retrofitted with the improvements they made to it since the original version. The biggest issues they had back in the day was with fuel injection pumps. This thing runs super strong and goes as good as an Iroc Camaro,or Monte SS from back in the late 80's early 90's. Just to give you an idea of how it moves. No matter what's been done to it however, it still is overall a very weak car if it's expected to pull weight like that. Between car and trailer, I'm probably looking at around 5500 pounds of payload to pull eight hundred miles from here to there....Whew, I hope the car can handle it.

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