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Swap in the 5-speed. The 3AT is crap

You're probably going to want to get a shop to do it. I wound up just taking my struts off and bringing them to a garage for them to compress the springs after dealing with putzing around with the spring compressor tools I bought online. Granted, the tools I bought were cheap, so if you get a QUALITY spring compressor...you may be able to do it yourself.. But if you go through the trouble of taking the whole struts out of your car yourself, and just bring them to a garage, they shouldn't charge you more than like 20-50 max to compress and swap in the new shocks for you.

Plugging that hose seems to have helped my chugging and surging issues, as well. Hopefully I'll see a MPG bump! This was on an SPFI.

You can't tell me you think using a smart-phone mounted to your dash is as cool as that picture is a couple posts above? =P

Did you even have to plug it? Isn't the EGR valve opened by applying vacuum? It's ordinarily always closed, so I'm assuming the vacuum opens the valve. Reason I ask is I have a faulty EGR solenoid and was just thinking about doing what you mentioned because I have surging while accelerating and have been wondering if it's the EGR... After going out and taking a look, it's a real simple system. There's a hose leading to the solenoid from the manifold, there's the two wire electrical connector that activates the solenoid, and then there's the hose coming from the back-side of the solenoid that goes straight to the EGR valve, so if anything it seems you should plug the hose coming off the manifold so you're not losing any vacuum. This is on my SPFI ea82 though, I haven't looked at the EGR system on my carb'd ea82, though I should, considering it's parked. If it's a similar system (though I doubt it, carb'd ea82 doesn't have an ECU, correct?) I'd just snatch the solenoid off my GL and throw it on the Loyale. Just my .02.

lol, how was it *not* bad?!

haha, my CEL for my EGR went off on the 4th of july while coming back from the fireworks. I took a picture. it's back on now though

That's some archeological search digging you did there to find this lol

Said he saw the rotor spinning already, so it's not belts. That leaves your distributor, it's ignition module and the coil. I'd test the coil and then follow jeszek's guide above for testing the ignition module

My d/r pops out of gear too. I don't remember which one though...and I haven't driven it in awhile. Think it was 3rd..

+1 above and/or also your wheel bearings.

Took mine to Canada and back. You're in for a nice, high rev 65 MPH journey Let us know what your fuel mileage works out to!! lol

I think you should get rid of any bits of metal that are left in that lip that could come off and wind up in your cooling system. I also think you should just replace the pump, as you're going through the engine and a water-pump is relatively cheap to have on there new, but if you don't want to do that you can always use that one, get your build together, fire it up and see if it leaks. If it does, it's not that hard to replace; I mean you've torn the whole engine apart now lol, what's the big deal if you have to swap in a new waterpump after your done Sucks that happened though, don't get me wrong. Good luck!

That's good to hear... The front springs aren't the same story though...those things are pretty stiff Going to have to do the rears in the Loyale soon though, so chalk me up as grateful for that tid-bit too.

I'll give that a shot before I tear into it at all. Order up some boots and clamps and then clean the hell out of them, re-grease and re-boot and see how it goes. I've had success doing that before, but then again that was for a car being driven around locally. There's a looong haul in the future for these axles lol

LOL that's awesome

Haha! You must be relieved. I went through a similar thing with my GL. Same scenario 1987 46,000 miles Car had done a lottta sittin'.

That's crazy, comparing all the pictures, the 86 Canadian spec front bumper looks like a cross between the 87 spec US bumper and the 86 spec US bumper, haha!

Nice rims!...:-\..Just kidding. Okay that was mean. I apologize. I really need some sleep.

From what I can see comparing to my 87, if you look at the piece of trim on the fender, on the 87 it is flat when it meets the bumper, flat and straight. On the 86 it's at an angle. In the second picture you can notice around the turn signals on the 87 it's more of the same, the bumper is more rounded and to the right of the turn signal the gap is wider. That trim on top of the 86's bumper...gl-10 option maybe? That one I have no idea whether it was on all of them or just gl10s. I guess they switched the grill to the ugly one in 87, too. Love the front end of that 86, the angles are awesome. (Air dam helps =P)

hehe, yeah, it's quite a trip. It comes out to more though, as the ride into the desert from Gerlach, NV is about another 80 miles to and from, and any side-trips that will be made during the trip (for instance, hopped off 80 to go to chicago for some pizza last time) will add to the mileage. I did this last year in my 87 GL which I had sat for *YEARS* and I had just bought and knew absolutely NOTHING about :-p Needless to say, that was not smart, but luck was on our side and we had no issues on the trip. My water-pump bearings did explode about 2 days after I got back though.

I. Love. This car. lol Can't tell you enough times how amazing this process is. Thanks for sharing the whole process with us and for many many many pictures of everything. We appreciate

haha! That paint came out great! Jeszek would approve of the color And I don't know why, but every time I see those rims, I want a set, really bad. What are they? They're after-market right? I think I've seen a set of those on maybe four or five members' cars on here..