Jason, our first Beaver was a 1991 Baronet with the 3116. We owned it 3 years and put 35000 miles on it. I found that staying right at 55 mph we got between 10-11 mpg pulling an open car trailer with an 06 Hyundai Azera every mile we put on it. We really enjoyed that coach just had a floor plan that wasn’t our favorite. On the Baronet the brakes had manual slack adjusters, make sure if you have those to adjust them properly and every oil change, my 1991 Marquis has automatic adjusters. I changed that transmission fluid over to Allison synthetic, as others stated on long hard uphill pulls the transmission temp would just hit the alarm point, about 240 degrees, with synthetic I was more comfortable with that temperature. I had the overhead run, valves and fuel injectors adjusted when we got ours with about 80,000 miles on it, Dave Atherton told me that it wouldn’t need done again for another 350,000 miles. Having a mechanical fuel injected diesel in my opinion is a big plus, no strange electrons running around to make the engine do crazy things, I just used CAT filters and changed the oil, oil filter and fuel filters every 6-7,000 miles. My Baronet also had grease packed front wheel bearings not oil bath and I had those repacked at around 100,000 miles and it needed it. Hope you enjoy your Contessa.