My Engine Needs Help - What To Do

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HYPERKID--- Any news on your engine situation???

[hyperkid]

I just wanted to update everyone - i'm sorry for not posting sooner

Well I have my truck back with a replacement motor. It took about half a year for me to save the $4000 bucks to fix her. For half a year i made my car payments while my baby was broken. I was able to find a used motor with 40k miles on it from Houston TX. The replacement motor purrs but I have had a few issues fixed since then. The transmission was shifting very rough so I had the neutral switch replaced and the wiring harness that goes under the motor repaired and tied out of the way. It was resting on the exhaust. I had an idle issue and replaced the TPS sensor which corrected that. And I had a coolant leak which I just fixed this weekend. Coolant was leaking from the seal on the water manifold. I read another post about this and ordered the seals and o-ring. I'm assuming when the replacement motor was installed these were not changed out. The seals were very bad and the o-ring crumbled to pieces when it was removed. Now I am not leaking a single drop of coolant (woot). As good as this replacement motor sounds and performs it still drinks oil like it's starving. Just checked a few minutes ago and i'm down 1.5qt. So that's about it - no other mechanical issues at all. Still have the freakin power window issues so maybe I will try to tackle that this coming weekend. Oh yeah i'm painting my hood insert I will post photos. I also took a video of the new motor starting. Took with my blackberry so don't get too excited. At least you can hear it doesn't knock or ping at all. Through all of this i decided to stick with my VX. I considered parting it out but just couldn't do it. I love my truck - I have wanted one since the first day I saw it back in 2000 and i'm not giving up. I'm gonna drive her until she falls apart - which I will probably fix her even then.

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