My friend is thinking of buying a 7 we found its a 84 12a GSL. We went and looked at it, it has new shocks new brakes new tires new snow tires its lowerd about a inch. work has been done on the exaust the rats nest has been removed but the vaccums are not pluged interior is new has sun roof with the glass and metal one. But he says when it warms up the motor smokes he says that he had it in a shop and they told him he needed to replace a o ring do you think this is it and could the rats nest not properly removed make the motor smoke. its only for 800 so do you all think it is worth it the replaceing a o ring is fine but if the motor is blown i dont think we would want it need some help thanks.

 

the o ring hes refferring to is in the engine, so replacing the o ring is an engine rebuild.

 

would that fix the smoking problem and if thats not it just to be on the safe side what other possibilities could there be

 

well are you sure it's oil? does it smoke from the engine bay? what color/smell is the exhaust?

 

dont know all that yet dident have a battery and the one in it was dead so we are takeing a battery over there soon

 

I say that if you don't have other more important obligations (i.e. - kids, wife, house to pay for, or anything that requires tons of money that you don't really have) then just buy it regardless. You only live once. If you get it running right it will be one hell of a car, and the more problems the car has - the more you can learn from it.

This is all assuming that the car is cosmetically in good shape.

 

ok for replaceing the o ring we would also need gaskets and would that be all we need and about how much would that be we went on racingbeat.com and all we could find was a rebuild kit for 1,000 and he dont have that much money

 

how much would the o ring and gaskets cost and is that all we would need because we found a rebuild kit for 1,000 on racing beats and he dont have that much

 

oops sorry about putting 2 times it said it dident work lol