The warranties got longer because of fuel injection alone. Fuel injection keeps us from dumping gasoline into the crankcase during startup and at shutdown, which is all it takes to get from four years of warranty to ten years.

"Torque management" is the result of planting a passenger car transmission into a light truck application. In old trucks like ours, if you don't upgrade the transmission before removing the torque management you end up living with the [blanking] you get for the [blanking] you got.

I upped the capacity of mine, so up yours! (That was almost funny forty years ago. But disco was happenin' then, too, so clearly the world was bats-hit insane at the time.)

Oh, almost forgot about the OP: If "pretty loud" ain't enough, poke your eardrums good and hard with a cotton swab before driving the thing. Do that consistently and you'll never again be concerned about the noise your truck ain't making.

 

You know you have gotten 'old' when you actually appreciate a quiet exhaust.

 

Funny you mention that. The exhaust is about done on my truck and I'm looking to replace it with something quiet but still make decent power. Stealth mode is preferred at my age.

 

In that case I got old while still quite young.

 

Yeah, that's what ya say NOW.........

 

True. I didn't call it being old when I was a child with hearing damage and tinnitus.