More impressions from a drive to town.
I think that exhaust leak is really holding it back. You see, the manifold appears to have had coolant dumped on it while hot -- there are cracks everywhere and a couple reasonably sized holes. Also, while driving, there is a quiet mode and a loud mode -- the loud mode is when the exhaust leak gets too obnoxious from the engine having to pull hard. If I am driving down the highway, it feels pretty zippy until the engine gets just enough of a load to go into loud mode. Then I start losing speed and can hardly get moving again. It also tends to run well at the start of a drive, but badly after going at speed on the highway for a while.
What do you all think? I know I need to replace the maintenance stuff, but does it sound like the manifold is also a problem?
Thanks
Hi Lewis,
What do I think? …… I think you are polishing a turd.
Asking if there is a problem when you describe an exhaust manifold “cracks everywhere and a couple reasonably sized holes” is strangely scary. Based upon your descriptions of the vehicles you have purchased lately, I question whether you have enough auto mechanic knowledge to truly understand what you are actually getting for your bargain deals.
![Distrubed :disturbed:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/disturbed.gif)
That Rocky’s life is used up and you have purchased the remnants of a carcass that you are trying to resurrect from the dead.
![Thumb Down! :thumbdown:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/thumbdown.gif)
Unless you were to do a frame-off complete restore, after many hours and months and lots of money, you will still have a somewhat unique, worthless turd. If you were to restore it (and that doesn’t sound like something you want to do), at the end of the day it will still be a historically unique, high maintenance, practically worthless, polished turd...…
..... Albeit perhaps a cute little turd.
![Attention!! :attention:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/attention.gif)
With that said, lots of guys out there enjoy polishing turds and do a great job of it, so I won’t hold that against you.
![Gap :gap:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/gap.gif)
I have polished a turd.
![Big Thumb Up :biggthumpup:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/biggthumpup.gif)
Gnarls.
![Spin :spin:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/spin.gif)