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Fortunately this isn’t my first rodeo with other people’s neglect, just a new platform. The not running is the biggest issue at the moment. I will pick away at all the other issues. And I love the advice, exactly why I am falling in love with this thing, even in it’s current state.Ummm, yeah. It will explain a lot of things.
Do the block test but I would bet money against the HG being blown.
I would bet money that there are a lot of little things that have been neglected and will need attention. Don’t panic, all of them have been experienced by many of us on the forum. You won’t be a “first” for any of these things. Do a google search, if you don’t find it, ask. People may give you sh!t for not searching, ignore them, some people are d!cks.
These aren’t your “normal” vehicles. They don’t grenade without ridiculous abuse and neglect. There are countless of us that have had neglected 80s that given a little love they are now reliable and will run for many years to come.
Keep oil in it, keep your coolant system in good working order, wash her once a week in the winter to keep her from rotting away, spray Fluid Film all over underneath her, buy stock in a gas company. Drive the sh!t out of it!
Worked all day, but my current thought is that a gasket between a manifold and downpipe went that could be throwing off the O2 and causing the lean/rich codes. Could that throw the idle off to the point of barely running?
I am going to grab the block tester to rule out the head gasket and throw two new gaskets in to stop that particular leak.