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it's $2.50 for 87 octane now!!! I hate California! :oops: :X :furious:

The water/coolant looked fine. Just a bit of oil floating on top when drained. No sludge or mixing. There was still plenty of h2o in the radiator and block the second day when I drove it the 4 miles. The day before that I had driven around town for a few miles worth, then 2 miles to McDonalds and sat for 15 mins when she overheated. I drove her the remaining 2 miles home, and filled the rad and left her for the night. When I left the "final" morning, I made sure there was plenty of h2o, and when I got the 4 freeway miles to the house, she still had water in the rad & block. I am in the process of replacing the h2o pump, t-belt oil and coolant. I will let y'all know what happens. I bought new spark plugs (none of the old ones looked "steam cleaned") and will be doing a compression test with oil water and heat. I will post results of tests. Thanks guys, I REALLY REALLY appreciate the input. OH! NO, the only problems I had b 4 the motor pull were the broken studs. BUT!!!! The t'stat the old owner had installed, they forced it in and had dented it. It was inoperable..... No, I did not take the new looking heads off when I pulled the motor. Hope this info helps. Attached are pics of the spark plugs I took out... (yes..I broke one..LOL) Any ideas are greatly appreciated. This is one problem I have NEVER come across... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pathy4x4/alb...del%3as,4%3af,0 There are 4 or 5 pics of the plugs.

I lucked out when I did mine last month... I had the motor out already... it was so much easier, adn I did all the other stuff while I was there. Good luck! -bounce-

Do ya think maybe they took the aerodynamics a little too far on that one 88??? LOL. Nice tires though! :cool2:

well then! Happy birthday AND 4/4!! -bounce- + -alcohol- = :oops: hehehe

already have the Yahell account....hmmm.. I will have to investigate.... :type:

Congrats on your "new" Pathy! these are the times I love Cali.....and POR 15 sly

sssh 58 pt turn... and I have only managed a 10 point turn in a 83' long semi.... maybe I'll try harder next time! Hope everything turns out ok!

and I thought I had it bad in Cali???? :bow:

And tell him he'll be there MONDAY! He seems to like Mondays. :contract:

Heck yeah! Major B points for any damage incurred by rescuing Sheeps! But your truck looks great in the photos! I guess it's kinda like mine... Other than the passenger door being a different color with a chrome handle, the rest of it is "10 foot perfect"... It looks great as long as you stay at least 10 feet away. Any closer, and the dents, wrinkles, and chips start becoming visible! I took another step towards losing this past weekend... Since I had the front seats out, I cleaned the carpets. I guess my interior was originally grey.... And here I was used to calling it greyish brown... Coulda made a highly effective commercial for the Hoover carpet cleaner. The rig is probably 10 pounds lighter with all the dirt and dog hair it removed. And I have the Maxima seats fully installed. Sooooooo comfy.... Yes. My Pathy is a 10 yarder fer sure. 2 firends got inna fight and guess what they used to bounce off every time one guy got the better of the other??? You guessed it.. my Pathy dented 4 panels (and hit under back light with crowbar..glad he missed)..and she was PERFECT when I bought her! Ugly is in the eye of the beholder... thank God I believe that! Brownie pts for rescuing Jeep...yeah baby! made the little bend worth it! :cool2:

OK. I lose there.. not so much as a spot of rust on my Pathy.....

hmm.... funky name..funky song... but cool..thx!

yeah, I had high school flashbacks when I saw the air horn clip.... felt guilty after watching the poor gf freak out.....

I'm always up for a holiday... :cool2: I can't wait till the fun April holiday on 4/20 sly snicker snicker..hehehehehe oh, and happy 4/4 y'all!! -alcohol-

OK. I should refrase what came out when we blew into the plug holes. It was wet carbon (looked like) but nothing else. Yes, I figured that out about the PVC valve..LOL..got a new one today... I found ym piece of paper with the compression numbers..I had lost it when posting yesterday. #1 @ 181 #2 @ 151 #3 @ 152 #4 @ 151 #5 @ 181 #6 @ 178 When doing the compression test..I had NO OIL AND THE MOTOR WAS COLD. (I had already drained oil...taken belts off, etc) So I did a cold no oil compression test. The EXACT problems I was having (2 days before I stopped driving the Pathy) were as follows. Drove 4 miles, over that 4 miles temp gauge (now known to be working just fine) went up and down as I accelerated/decelerated (went up under acceleration and continuous gas pedal pressure and went down a bit when gas off). Now, up and down meaning from working temp (just below mid mark) and just under the first white overheating line. Got to the house and checked radiator. No water what-so-ever, and it had also used a quart of oil (in 3 weeks/1,000 miles), and I had noticed in the 3 days prior to this happening the fact the Pathy was suddenly getting crap gas mileage. That night, made sure she had water, and oil, drove 4 miles and sat in drive through for 15 mins, (she had been fine driving in town all day) and noticed temp hit white overheat line. I turned her off and let her sit til I had to move. Got her home, and again, no water. Oil was fine. Filled her up with water, and went to bed. Checked water next morning before I left, drove 4 miles, with temp gauge going "up and down" again, when I got to the house, she was overheating (almost) and we pulled the rad cap. She still had water, but it was boiling hot. We tried to "burp" her, few bubbles came out, but water was NOT circulating. It was dead still while in the radiator. We put the rad cap back on and did the upper rad hose squeeze test. (you could barely touch it from the heat) No pressure after release. When I grabbed the hose/pipe coming from the t'stat housing, you could hold it. It was "cold", as were the heater hoses going into the firewall. I stopped driving the Pathy that day. (Friday) OK. What I did when I did the motor out. Yes, I took the motor out, there would have been noooo way to fix the 4 broken studs with motor in. I removed broken manifold studs, installed Thorley's, Perma Cool oil filter relocation kit, new exhaust, t'stat, intake plentum gasket, plug wires, new belts, clutch, rear main seal, took oil pan off, and a few other minor things. The heads looked new from when the motor had been removed previously with old owner, and it was obvious there had been a lot of work done to the motor. (looked rebuilt). Umm... does that help any?? we found NO water in the oil what-so-ever, (both after draining oil and checking oil in valves covers) and very little oil floating on the top of the coolant when drained. I am miffed..really. if it would smoke or run like crap then I would suspect the head gasket?? It was running PERFECT when this all happened. No smoking, no power loss.... just higher fuel consumtion a little bit. Any ideas igranch?? I would love to pick your brain. I have pics of the plugs too if you want a peek at them. I marked which number they were, so I know where they came from. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! :help:

schweeeeeeeet! congrats! Looks good!

And for those looking for a good air horn.. ask this guy! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/dudeairhorn.html

Good god. I am still laughing! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/numanuma.html and this dude needs to leave the ecstasy alone! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/crazydudedance.html

YEAH..tried gettin pics direct from puter.. doesn't seem to like letting me do that... everything hates me right now..LOL

I got mine direct from Nissan. $3.21 each :furious:

schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! that is kewel lookin! my bf soooooooooo needs a new puter! I have a HP 724c with 17" flat screen.. fast when online (which it's not right now) great memory...I luv my puter.....

mmm.. b 4 the Pathy broke AGAIN.. I had 100% funk in the deck....mmm it hits so hard!

OK. Drained all the oil out, and there was not so much as a spot of water in the oil. PHEW. went down, bought good compression tester, and here are the results. Bear in mind, there was no oil in the truck, and I did not get it to working temp b 4 we did this test. (already took all the belts off in prep for new h2o pump and t-belt) #1 151 #2 151 #3 181 #4 152 #5 182 #6 181 We pulled the PVC valve, and it was shot.... the thingy (I know..what's it called inside) was just rattling around inside the valve. It was the stock/factory PVC valve. That could easily cause the problem I saw. When we blew into the plug holes, nothing but oil came out. Checked the plug colors against a color chart, and all is good. so, end result? I think the PVC valve was causing my problems.... the fact that the oil had NOT MIXED with the coolant, and, there was NO WATER in the oil..leads me to believe that the PVC valve was the culprit. If anyone thinks different, please let me know!! Thanks for all your help and advice guys!

So. Pulled plugs. 1,3 & 5 are ok. 2 & 4 (especially 2) have oil and water all over them. When we pulled the belts...just for S & G turned the h2o pump..and it spewed water out of the t-stat housing..... NOW. bf's bro suggested some bards leak (??? sp) for aluminum and drive the sucker..now..I am not really for "quick fixes"..I like to do the job right... but right now I am almost willing to try anything that doesn't cost me another $2,000.... any thoughts on this?