I had my car break down recently. Spent a good few hours looking around in the engine bay confused. You guys probably read my thread earlier. It turned out I had a bad injector, and a few parts that weren’t installed correctly when I paid to get my engine rebuilt and swapped in. I changed everything that was bad, took out the alty, battery, p/s pump, all the belts, put new belts on, reinstalled the alty after getting it tested etc… ran into lots of obstacles but overcame them with some forum lurking, advice from ka-t.org and SON as well.
Once I started the car and had it running smooth, there was this beautiful feeling of pride and independence that I have never felt before. I was going to take the car to draggone because I was afraid to break stuff, but doing it myself, wow, amazing.
Such a good learning experience, I plan to work on it again, next job, fixing the fucked up 5 spd. swap with a supposedly NEW clutch…lol I can’t trust people anymore. I’d still go to a shop if it was something like tuning, or a custom fabrication, e.g. exhaust manifold.