If you're the typ who actually fixes things then a spare engine with as much ancillary parts as possible is priceless .

it's always the little niggly bits that are hardest to find when you need them, leaving them attached to the engine, tranny or whatever means you'll have the correct part, bracket or whatever along with the correct hardware right there when you need it.....

This only works if you have the storage space of course .

I used to have twnty or thirty old vintage engines, over the decades I stripped them of generators, carbys, manifolds and lots of unobtanium small parts .

Once in a while I'd overhaul some 50 year old engine I cut out of a wreck or rustbucket.....

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better