i THINK i got it last night. i'm trying to pass my emissions test and my hydrocarbon levels were in the 800's. sooo i rebuilt and put new gaskets from lower intake up, regaped plugs, new sensors, new vacuum lines, new 02 sensor, cleaned and ported upper and lower intake, cleaned and ported and polished throttle body, egr tube,... all kind of goodies. hardest part was the tube that goes from the exhaust pipe to the thermactor. i guess it had broken and someone had at one time put some hosing on there that finally rotted through. it's taken me 4 different kinds of hoses and 3 days, but i finally found a napa that had the high temp silicon heater hose and it seems to be working.
f&ck emissions. i would have torn all the thermactor stuff off otherwise.
by the way, we need a thread titled "aww shit" with a phone list of everyone here in albuquerque.... winter time is coming up and a good contact list would be helpful....
and we need another M&G. i've seen a few guys at upullit in broncs that i've left them notes so maybe we'll see them..