Buck531

Depends on where you want to live. Where I live? Royal Manor. Gahanna Ghetto. a LOT of rentals. You don't want to live here. My house got appraised for like $130k last year. They go from 100-140 in my neighborhood. I pay about $2300 or so a year in taxes? Further down on Stygler you can get a decent 4 bedroom house with a two car garage for just under 200k.

Welcome. My brother went to that college down there. Rio Grande. Years ago.

Sell the supra and buy my Lumina.

Also thought about it today. With the zero compression in 3, and the amount of fuel that was in with the oil, I think possibly either the valve got burnt or it's bent. Since I don't hear anything rattling around I think it's a burnt valve with a nice sized hole in it. what causes burnt valves anyways?

Yeah, i thought the brake booster if it were leaking would cause the really bad idle. I plugged it earlier today and it did nothing. I got zero compression on cylnder 3 man. nothing. nada. no idea if they're TTY or not. Can't find anything.

No. dave said for me to do it. It didnt' have any wierd sounding noises coming from the bottom end. I'm not worried about it. Spend a few hours ripping the top half off. If the motor is shot.. I'll just replace it. On a side note, i can't find head bolts for this thing for the LIFE of me. napa nor advance has anything for head bolts. Just the gasket set. Hell even ebay doesn't have any. wtf?

True.. no fords ever in my garage.. especially green with the WRONG motor in it.. lolz. I don't have the money for the head work Dave. its' a beater truck and don't feel like spending more money than what I bought it for. A quick $50 gasket set from Advance (comes with lim, head and valve cover gasket) should do the trick. I got about 4 holes in the exhaust too so that'll need some attention eventually. I was looking at the gasket for the 4.0. holy shit those cylnders are close to each other! the picture looks freakin' paper thin between them.

Some places don't do title work. The one in Gahanna here does. I just did this today. Bought the jeep yesterday. Took the title and my license to the Gahanna BMV, signed my name a few times and $30 later I was out with a temp tag and a registration. Too bad I can't drive the jeep lol. As long as the title is notarized and the person/company signed their name on it you shouldn't have a problem.

COmpression test: 1 - 120 2 - 115ish 3 - ZERO 4 - 90 5 - didn't check 6 - didn't check Head gasket kit from advance is like $60 bucks. Days worth. Not bad. Now I Just need to get the damn motor in my lumina so I can drive it and put the jeep in there and work on it. woot.

Its not really driveable. Virtually no brakes and I have to give it gas if I let off the pedal or it'll die. (not fun driving). It's getting towed here today and I'm going to check a few things on it. I probably won't be over today to get the wheels. Probably tomorrow sometime after 3 ish if I can get this jeep running (can't fit the wheels in any of my other cars.. lol).

There's pleanty of fluid in the resevoir. It just feels like I'm using manual brakes. It doesn't get tight until I hit the floor. I'm going to pop off the brake booster hose and plug it just to see if the idle changes. That could be my massive vac leak. The jeep will be towed here in about an hour if anyone wants to come over and dork with it (too bad it's too f'n cold and my Lumina is in the garage and doesn't move).

Can't drive it if A: it has very or NO brakes. B: it won't idle. at all. If you let off the gas.. in 10 seconds it dies.

I know Dave is going to swing by on Sunday to take a peek at it but I just figured somone here might be able to give me a few ideas. Basically you start it and it runs rough. Like I vac leak.. a bad one. you give it gas above 2k and it seems better. If you drive it it'll move. Just when you let off the gas it feels like it's going to stall out. And it will if you let it. The brakes are VERY soft. If you don't constantly pump them really quick it never builds up pedal. The brake light IS on. I did find something on some jeep forum that if you have no pedal and the brake light is on that the booster needs replaced. They said this would cause a rough idle too. Is it safe to say that if the brake booster is bad and is leaking, would cause a REALLY bad vac leak thus causing the car to run like ass at idle. Correct? If that's the case, anyone have a 4.0L Jeep brake booster for cheap? I've also read about taking some TB cleanerto the TB and such. Then I also read about the CPS going bad. I just don't want ot buy $200 in parts and it doesn't do shit. I know I have to eliminate things. We've already checked the timing, rotor, cap, plugs. I've changed the fuel injectors. We emptied the oil pan and it had a good 2 gallons of oil in the pan (yes.. most of it was oil/gas though maybe due to the old injectors being shit. Alos, right before it shuts off at idle if I let it, the check engine light comes on and doens't come on when you turn it back on. TIA.

is 7k better? I dunno. seriously. I'm debating on which car I want to get once I sell the Lumina. I dunno. I know it's going to be an LS1 or a 3.8 S/C.

A cup FTL

Is it possible to find a halfway decent LS1 for around 6ik? I mean under 100k miles. Stick/auto doesn't matter. It wouldn't be a daily driver either. Just weighing my options here between a FWD 3800 S/C and an F-body (oh, and the F-body would NOT be a Camaro. just never liked the styling of them). It would be either a Firebird or a Trans am (more a trans am than the firebird).

Don't have anything other than the obvious. Family, friends, etc. Both my parents and in-laws live in Westerville. I live in Gahanna. Brother lives in Worthington. Jobs here are good. I've learn to deal with the weather. Not a big deal for me. Columbus is one of the better places to live cost/living and other reasons as well. I saw that in a magazine somewhere. I know Gahanna is in one of the top 100 places to live in the US. (I see it on a sign when I come home from work every day).

I need to do that to my lawn mower!

Remember that old ZZP top dude making you borrowing my zip ties to tie down your battery? .

I probably won't do a turbo'd regal. Just a normal regal GS will suit me fine.

I'm gonna pick them up this weekend .

Should this be in the kitchen or something? .

I'll go either way. not sure which ride I'll have by then though.

I'll take them. How about this weekend?

Yep. No more Lumina. All the mods have been sold and I got a stock motor sitting on a stand ready to go in on Thursday. I'll probably sell it in the spring and get something else.