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I remember when this thing was up for sale, wished I could have grabbed it, but glad I didn't! I must admit, I was a bit taken off guard when I clicked through this thread for the first time. Never seen that before! haha Excellent work, and amazing visual result. Bet you're dying to see the numbers without any slip. How loud/hot does it get in the cabin?

I do not know why the resolution on the camera was like..ALL the way down...but; What have I done in MY soobie lately? 100!!!!!!!!!! I know it's hard to see, but that's 100 MPH @ 6,000 RPMs The 3AT did it! Benjamin Hooptie Loyale for the first time has met and breached 100 mph topping out at 101. I was astonished. In other news; got my rear shocks done on the GL! No more bouncing half a block after driving over a speed-bump or being shot in to either the lane to the left or right of me randomly when driving over rough pavement! Safe cars FTW. :clap:

Check your fuel filters again. If you had the same gas in the car that caused this last time, maybe there's something in your tank clogging your filters.

How are your ball-joints?

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)