AtracYota91
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I bought a 91 all trac little over a year ago in Erie pa. I randomly bought the car hoping to have a soild car. My plans was to make it into a street car. The craigslist add said the car had a blown head gasket. I figured I would go check it out. A blown head gasket wasn't going to stop me from owning a all trac. The guy wanted 3500 dollars for it. I drove out to Eire after renting a car hauler. Yeah stupid me rented a hauler with out seeing the car in person. Well needless to say Eire is about 2 hours from Pittsburgh. So 180 dollars later I reach my destination. While talking with the guy I gathered some information on the car. He tells me just a little rust has started nothing major tho......... :bs: I started walking around the car looking at this so called little rust to find it was worse than he said. What a surprise.... I had a magnet with me to make sure nothing was fiber glassed. The car checks out and I work my way to the underneath of the car. I discover lots of issues.. 1. sway bar mounts rotted off. 2. rigged up brake lines/fuel lines. 3. Floor starting to rust thorough. :bangshead: After questioning him about his (little rust) he tells me he had no ideal... I ask him to take me for a ride the car was very low on power. He tells me once again it's the head gasket. I checked for signs of head gasket failure ( exhaust smoke,coolant leaking in oil/around head,over heating) I didn't find any of that. The only thing I found was small amount of coolant going into the over flow once at operation temp. At this point I'm starting to get real upset over this whole trip.. I just said screw it and seen what was going to be his lowest price. After stating the fact he basically wasted my time and my money. He lowered the price to 3000. Long story short I wasn't leaving without it. I got the car for 2000 with out the rims. Here is the add check it out guys. http://www.celispeed.com/forums/sale-fo ... 5-gt4.html Nice looking car in the pictures. But let me just say that looks can be deceiving. After unloading first thing I did was a comp test. #1cyl-184 psi #2,3,4-180 psi. Amazing for 158k miles. So I checked plugs wires cap and rotor to find all in great condition. I decided to take it for a little ride. Throughout the 45 min drive the car got worse i barely was able to make it back home. The next day I took the timing covers off to find the timing belt was super lose. I put every thing at TDC. It was off by 3 teeth unreal I still don't know how I got it home.. The belt looked fairly new so I took the tensioner off. It was so shot the push rod fell clean out of tensioner. I took off the tensioner off the gen4 motor I have. The only thing I modified was the metal timing cover to clear the longer tensioner. Slapped everything back on turned the key and boom she's alive.. The coolant over flow issue was due to a faulty rad cap. That's about the only luck I had with the car. I took the car apart winter of 2012 to discover the rust damage was just sickening. Words can't even describe the damage. Like the saying goes pictures are worth a 1000 words.