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You are right on all accounts Ben .
I have put considerably more time & money in an otherwise throw away engine than I could ever hope to reclaim financially wise.  But as you said " sometimes we do things because "no one else has". I have been looking for a used (new style) D4 for over a year now...they don't come up for sale , I don't for a second believe people are "holding onto them" , I think they're NOT buying them. You can get a nice used (much better, bigger) Wilesco for less $