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I'm disappointed to say that I'm driving back to Houston in my lady's Solara. We didn't manage to get my beater up and running. My buddy was sick all day yesterday, so we had to put it off until this morning. We sprayed the two hornet's nests that had popped up in the bay while the truck has been sitting all year, then we pressure washed the ever living dog shit out of the bay before pulling to motor. The truck has a 1/4 million miles on it, and boy does it show.
The rear main seal was leaking worse than the deep water horizon, and the valve seals were as well. Some dillhole broke the tip of a spark plug off in cylinder four, and instead of backing it out carefully, they retapped the hole, then threaded a NEW sparkplug ontop of the old tip. The top of the valvetrain looked pretty clean, but the combustion chamber/pistons had an .125" thick layer of carbon buildup caked on. The cylinder walls looked awesome. There were a few scratches down a couple of the bores, but nothing too crazy.
Anyways, I'm now looking for a new clutch kit and a pacesetter, since the header I have in the truck now has had the extra EGR pipes ghetto rigged shut. It looks like garbage.
Does anyone know where I can buy a pacesetter and have it delivered by this Friday? The ones on eBay all have a 30 day lead time. That's crazy. I can't wait that long to get the truck up and running.