N/A Owners ONLY!! How many miles until your engine died?
my 86 GXl is at 168,xxx and i think its going to be soon for a rebuild. i've had lots of smoke lately and starting it has been harder and harder now. it takes longer for the engine to catch now. still, it runs stronger then my brother's 90 GTU (198,xxx).
180k miles on a 86gxl that only had the pd replaced, afm, omp lines, and some injector orings. other than that, starts and idols fine. lol. it hesistates all over the place though. the trany is almost gone though. i cant downshift into 3rd at all. i can upshift into 3rd, but really slowly and cautiously. its worse when its cold. and reverse is almost gone. i dont know. it could be just the syncros.
Mine made it to 72,000 and then the infamous heater hose blew out. The wife thought it would make it "only a mile" to home. Now I'm doing the turbo conversion (with all new hoses). What are you gonna do?
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Temple, Texas (Central)
Mine made it to about 215,000 miles, and was still running strong until the day it died. It had a coolant seal failure, among other things. First, the fan clutch went out, which is bad when its summer in Texas. Then the thermostat stuck. I think the coolant seals where starting to go, but it still had life left. I ended up overheating it, so it was new engine time.



