BTW, this leg of the trip was Austin to San Jose (current 'home'... did I mention this truck has a camper shell on it? ;-)

 

Congrats on making it home with no "major" incidents, keep us posted on what you are doing with it .

 

Funny story: We were finally 5 miles from home after a couple thousand miles on the road w/o problems, and I decided to get a burrito. The thing finally stalled, and then... horror... wouldn't crank (starter didn't go). 'Bout crapped my pants. I unplugged the negative terminal from the battery, reconnected it, and it fired up. Guess the old "less CPU than a calculator" ECU got scrambled by the stall (?). I thought it was kind of a fitting/hilarious end to the trip (wife didn't think so, she cried the remaining 5 miles).

 

Wow, you had the woman with you on this trip, thought you were running solo !!

 

i never even thought of that until the shop i took one of my heads to pointed out how setting valve lash with messed up tappets is hard. $20 remedied that. when i pulled out the old ones i was pretty shocked. it looked like someone used them to pound nails.

also x2 on leakdown test both dry and wet just to help narrow things down