Well, it's always something. Last week I posted where I had done my first timing belt replacement on my '86 240 sedan that took more than a few tries to get right...so I thought. The stalling and being under powered turned out not to be the TB but in fact 2 shorted wires on a plug going into the base of the distributor. These are very thin fragile wires that were shorting. But that was a cheap fix. When I took it into my independent shop and opened the hood, oil burning smoke was coming out of the engine bay. As it turned out, the rear main went and was leaking on the hot engine. What a stink. It will be ready Friday and I'll be about $500 poorer, but at least I'll know that it's secure and hopefully ready for another 335K miles. Another good thing is that I don't have any car payments so I mind putting money like this into a solid car every once in awhile.

Keep on brickin'