QUOTE(sixnotfour @ Aug 5 2019, 03:22 PM)
im hoping vacum leak....
Looks so effin trivial. The boot between the air meter and the intakes has been blown off. My back is still recovering, so i havent tested. $1250 to u haul so i could be treated badly and all on account of a backfire?
To put things in perspective, i changed the oil so as to be ready and overfilled the tank. Which made the main seal oil ooze worse, that lead to the fan belt failing, which was dramatic and blazing hot. The tool kit had an old belt that also failed, but i had yet another. Then the alternator gave up the ghost after 40 years of service, which led to buying a battery at wallmart to get to the friends place in polson. Absolutely gorgeous! Then pelican and fedex got involved, and the alternator got changed, which led to heading for home. Then as the car lost power and i was by the side of the road for the third time with an 80 mph speed limit I gave up. Hagerty paid for a tow to u-haul in Billings. Thinking i was helping i did the on line order for a trailer, which has no effect on the local granchise.after a few hours - noyou may not sitin theshade,thatis for our mechanics we were sent off to obtain a trailer in white sulfur springs, a six hour round trip with us paying for the gas for the ten foot truck. No, there isnt a winch on the trailer, so a couple of strangers getting their storage locker stuff pitched in to help load up. My bad back is still recovering.
After that the rest was simply driving home in time for a Monday morning meeting. I am good for eight hours normally, but we stretched that.
My wife is a hero. She would sign up for this, but she wouldn’t go for a cruise or luxury resort. If you find one like her, hold on tight. There are other lessons learned, perhaps the biggest one is to trust your work if you did it correctly. My lack of diagnostic tools along with lack of confidence in my engine rebuild made me fear the worst. Still, she is the greatest.