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Just found a pair of 90 legacy wagons with about 166k miles on each ones a parts car, and the other runs with some timing issues and the guy only wants $500 for the pair! Thats the EJ22 motor, right? I'm thinking its a pretty sweet deal, what do you guys think?

Dang, I'm sure glad I didn't just jump into buying it. I'll have to go and inspect it pretty well, but at this point i'm kinda leaning towards waiting for another wag. to come around. Thank you guys for all your help, you've saved me $$ for sure. And I think its official, this is my favorite soob forum. I probably would have gotten booed out of NASIOC for asking this lol Thanks again for puttin up with this newb

When I go and look at it besides pulling the plugs, is there anyway I can diagnose if there is water in the motor, just by looking at it?

So the motor probably doesn't have a whole lot of life left? I talked to the guy and he said that it was his elderly dad who bought brand new from the show room.

Alright, so I'm buying a '90 Loyale turbo all time AWD wagon that the guy says needs headgaskets, I figure since he only wants $400 for the car it would be a fun first sooby project car so this so0b n0ob could get his feet wet a bit. Here are my questions: The car has a little over 184K miles on it, has been sitting for 2.5 years and the guy says it was leaking coolant out of the heads when it was parked. What am I getting myself into here? Just a blown gasket or possibly cracked head? If I do yank the motor and comb through it will it last me for a good while longer? Will I have to port/polish the heads, what does that run? And are there any special tools I need to pull the heads/gaskets? Thanks so much!