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Sorry about the headache, they can be awful!
I finally got around to watching the videos. Are these your videos? About that engine: Sorry, but that ain't no 3.0!
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You are totally right, 8th digit is a 4, 10th is a y, so it's a 3.8l v8 from 2000.
Fortunately, all the parts I have replaced are the same for either engine.
Of course, that does make me a certifiable dumbass, too!
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Originally Posted by 12Ounce
I'm afraid to ask what high-tech excercise is planned for the kerosene.
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Seafoam and marvel mystery oil both contain naptha. I was going to use it, by pouring a quart into the engine, running it for 10 seconds, then draining the oil. I was thinking it could be a sticky lifter, given how much it improved in sound yesterday when I put in the seafoam. That seems to be the main ingredient, naptha.
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Originally Posted by 12Ounce
The engine in the video may have other problems but I'm pretty sure the spark cables are not hooked up properly.
How do you know the land lord spiked the engine? Did you see him do it? And he used anti-freeze? .... that's pretty clever. My land lord would probably use mop water or pee .... but anti-freeze, why did he go to that trouble and expense? Perhaps he's smarter than most land lords. Have you asked him to have a look at the engine? Probably help you with those spark cables.
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We had a neighbor who was using a steel pipe to pound on our common ceiling, he stopped then re-started. The neighbor tried to drive us out, that failed, our landlord tried claiming we didn't have a lease, we obtained a copy thru a Senator's office (long story). We found out later our landlord was an unreformed drug addict, like the neighbor he used to intimidate us. That stuff doesn't work with me, I'm a descendant of John of Donegal, you can read about my ancestor beating his landlord to death, then moving here- 4 of his sons were decorated officers in the American Rev. Another neighbor who was a relative (same family but 200 years ago) had a son who was a Captain and his Dad also is DAR listed, and Geo. Washington himself said my ancestor's brother was the most fearsome soldier he had ever met. He said it scared him to watch him review the troops, and hat was the Father of our Country!
So, I don't give in very often. After we lost a lot of sleep one night due to the banging, we discussed applying the wage garnishment, and then heard a noise on our porch. We went out, and the landlord had the crazy drug addict shovelling, but the footstep encased in snow, two of them, on the porch, were still there-too big for the little run, but about the same size as our landlord, and he had already done the listening in thing before. We had the van parked in front of his office, and for the past two weeks had considered getting a locking gas cap, and we got in and drove-within a few miles, the car started gagging.
Oldest son, back from afghanistan, came right by, stuck his finger in the fuel intake, let me smell it, it was sweet and green. When I took off the fuel filter later, tho, it has anti-freeze in the intake part. I looked up on ask.com, sugar usually clears out easily. But antifreeze can cause the injectors not to work, and our landlord had helped us 4 years ago when our plymouth van had died, and kept laughing about the fact when he sprayed starter fluid into the intake "fuel just does not seem to be getting into the engine". So, since that mathed up the symptoms, and I had the filter with dried and wet anti-freeze, I knew who it was. He's gone into our place, and stolen things, and he allowed a mormon family to invade our place and wreck it, since they were trying to convert our daughter and miserably failed. But they did go thru our medical records, and some other stuff.
I got some serious dirt in the past on people, including molestation in town, and had told people, which made them lose their jobs, and the cops had told people I was dealing meth. I then posted online the names and addies of their informants (I do not do drugs, ever) and their tricks, and the cops now avoid me like the plague. But my landlord, and the police had already admitted to us, with witnesses present, they had slandered me and who their informants were. We figured the landlord was trying to silence us, and stop us from getting the informant in trouble, so he doped or anti-freezed our engine.
We also found out, he'd tried successfully to oust 2 dozen people, including 8 served with papers, previously. We disproved everything he said, and the judge humiliated him publicly, so we know he's mad. But, I have a legal right to sleep, and the dipstick will pay for that later this month. I know he can't afford the garnishment, but hey, he did us, now it's time for him.
So, when I had the fuel filter, and it was obvious what had happened both to the ford and the plymouth, and the symptoms matched, I was certain what had happened. I know who it was. He has 6 cameras on the property, but if I had him served with a subpoena he'd destroy the vids first. But that does not mean I do not know-I do, I just do not have enough evidence to get a thorough and complete prosecution. But I have the filter, and know enough to guess pretty successfully.
That enuff, or do you need more?
I don't know why you said trouble or expense. All you need is a gallon or two of anti-freeze, a funnel which I've borrowed from him before, and to be mental (which he already is), and vengeful and keep your mouth shut. From what I have read, this happens a lot nationwide, but only with people who want to kill the engine, not just disable it temporarily and send a message.
My landlord loves making other people hurt, then threatening them. When we won, we told other people to stand up, they did, and now he can't evict anyone. His perp-in residence the drug addict, was reporting to the local probation officer on people, and making stuff up-and since he can't legally testify, he can't do that. We told people to challenge his story, since he can't legally testify, or vote, and they did, and the neighborhood has mellowed out. That has extremely ticked off people who make money from arresting people for a living, and making them take classes at 50$/per, and 200$/per month probation fees. Not to mention the people they cut deals with to hurt others (think the movie, Needful Things by Stephen King) for vengeance, because they are sick, in exchange for illegally expunging their convictions.
Wow, that is a lot. But, you wanted to know.
I did switch out two spark plug wires, and that caused the engine not to start. So, I do not know.