Time to Inframe?

[JimT]

(07-29-2020 )tree98 Wrote:  Jim, that cam is coming apart little by little every day and releasing metal fragments into your engine. I don't think I would wait to long on the inframe, or atleast change the cam and drop some lower end bearings and check or replace them and get a look at your crank.

Yeah, I'm not planning on putting off the repairs. Maybe I phrased it wrong. It's damaged, I now know it's damaged. The question right now is, do I replace just the cam now and wait on the in-frame, or do I do everything now? I don't know yet what replacing the cam entails. If it's a lot of labor that I'll have to do again come in frame time, maybe I just do it all together?

Thanks to the Covid pandemic I managed to get an SBA EIDL loan that should cover all the parts for an in frame, but it would be nice to have a bit more cushion before I get in to something that big. I'm just trying to make the best informed decision that I can. As to my question about running the truck, it would only be until I can get all the parts needed and even that would be as little as possible. My gut says don't push it, but my brain wants more data to make an informed decision.