Great little car! I bought used w/bad timing belt and bent valves, I rebuilt it myself and it ran wonderfully on weekend trips etc! I ride a motorcycle on a daily basis, so only used the car for weekend trips and shopping.
Unfortunately I neglected to fix a my small radiator leak, so I just kept adding water for over year! Yes I know coolent is also a lube for the water pump, but I didn't know how fast modern car graphite cylinder head gaskets disintegrate with out coolent!
So, I blew a head gasket and had pitting on the cylinder head. Being the mechanical sort of guy, went out and bought all new parts($200) and sent the head to be welded up and reprofiled ($300)! Everything is sitting waiting to be assembled.
I know it's a weekends worth of work, but I bought a truck for my motorcycle
I've decided to scrap the car, because of expired tags and old tiresx4=($$). But I have a long list of goodies to sell!!!
1-Re-machined cylinder head with new valves, w/ valve seals, all valve lashes and cams installed and torqued.
1-New head gasket, timing belt new/unused, water pump/new in box, tension pulley/ new inbox.
1-Water pump wrench/ proper tool, you don't have to make one!
1-Cam position sensor new($60), with slight use. (I had that problem code misfire cyl1/2, with odd idle.) Turns out something else was wrong on the dle air control assy.
Also: I have a good working Idle Air Control assy, the assembly that controls air intake. IT has a good TPS and other control sensor.
I'll Sell everything for $350 frim! I'm in the Los Angeles area, I prefer not to ship. But may sonsider
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