[cwcarpenter98]

After getting the Dakota running again, I spent the rest of my Christmas break driving it around and breaking in the engine. I kept running into issues though with the truck shutting itself off and turning on the ac when I didn't want it to. The heater core is clogged up as well from rust and such, so I just bypassed it when I put the engine back in. With no heat, driving in the winter was really cold. It turned out that the computer had failed, so that was replaced after I went back to school. Ever since I replaced the computer, everything has worked great, and it runs like a brand new truck.

I had also decided to park Frankentruck until I could get to the point of the engine swap, so it sat in the front yard for most of the semester.

While down in Milledgeville, I visited a private junkyard that I had found on a trip to Athens for a Georgia football game. He had a lot of stuff, but it's all been sitting so long that pretty much everything in the yard is only good for parts. I was able to score a radio delete plate that is still in fairly decent shape.