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Update: found the end of the grommet in the rear head. It was hard as a rock. Not sure I'd be comfortable with that going through my valves...lol The other discovery was my intake and throttle body was gummed up with black thick oil residue. So, unless I got a bad set of rings somewhere, im pretty sure the PCV had been an issue for quite some time... and this all should solve the rough idle/misfire situation. Im gonna reassemble the top end tomorrow and get the timing chain done by Wednesday. I did find a couple coppers showing on some wiring. So I want to run-through and rewrap the harness also. I'll update with the running status in a few days.

First set of struts are done and I have four more sets that will be completed within the next week. I will let each of these sets go for $275 per pair, plus shipping. PM me if you are interested in purchasing. I will ask for a release of liability as these are modified to fill a need where no replacements exist. As mentioned earlier in this thread, these are new, Monroe brand gas charged struts. They started life as rear struts for the 1990 Regal, which are the same base strut as the Reatta but with different mounting brackets and missing the pinch bolt dent and sway bar adapter. All of the Regal brackets were removed, the pinch bolt dimple added, the struts painted satin black (where the brackets were removed, there was no paint). Each strut will include an A&A clamp on mount for the sway bar as shown.

I will take a pair of these please, I sent you a pm. Thanks

Progress👍 As well as the PCV, a major contributor to the grunge inside the intake manifold is the EGR and the remnants of combustion released by open intake valves upon engine shutdown. There are always one or more partially open when stopped and the hot vapors rise.

Thanks for all your work on the struts and offering them at a reasonable price. They look really good.

This is a pic from my teardown of the 1995 s/c engine, the last of the true Series I engines. The cam uses a large single center bolt as a retainer and no cam button. I imagine Series 2 are similar.