I bought a 94 dodge Cummins for 3500bucks with 120,000 miles sold the trans/transfer case for 1800bucks and went out and bought a custom built nv4500 for $1300. I then scraped the rest of the truck for probably 500bucks.
my thought is
$2000-strong running p-pump cummins
$1500-Remaned nv4500...