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Old 06-07-2012, 04:36 AM   #57
mechrider89
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Ok well of course problems come in three's soooo, as they sit right now I have no wipers, a leaky gasket on the exhaust side of the engine along with a crack exhaust manifold, and I electrical problem. The car doesn't want to stay running unless you rev it, its like its not getting power. I took the alternator off and got it checked out, it was good (better be cuz its brand freak'n new!) and I'm skeptical on the battery being the problem but all I can do is hope that's it.
Also looked into maintenance which I'm surprised I didn't do yet (other then an oil change). Found that my spark plugs we're beyond done, and the crush washers we're sealing anymore so oil gas and carbon had formed a crusty paste in every spark plug port and my plug wires were so old the bottoms had decomposed (forgot to take pic's). So far I Clean all the spark plug holes and replaced the spark plugs, cleaned the distributor cap and check to make sure that part of the system was in good working order; so now all I have left is to replace the spark plug wires.
Also looked into my intake system and was blown away..........how my car ran as good as it did I cant fathom! From the filter back was just gritty and slimpy. So I pulled the intake system up to the manifold and started cleaning.
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Then I got an idea.......why not polish the MAF housing to help with air flow and make it look better, so that's what I did. After 10 hours of wet sanding with 400 grit and 800 grit metal sand paper and the polishing here's how she looked.
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Still not totally happy with it so a revisit will be in order down the road.
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