I guess I’ll start where I left off last, the end of XDC Texas. My motor had knock and we only had 18 days before we had to leave for Arizona. It didn’t take us long to get the motor out of the car and into pieces. We determined that the cause for the rod knock was due to the ancient oil pump finally giving up. There was some minor damage on the crank and rods from the bearing failure but other than that the block looked fine. There wasn’t enough time to get them repaired so we robbed the crank and rods out of another motor and started reassembling it. We didn’t have all of the parts until the weekend before we were supposed to leave. In a mad scramble me and my dad got everything together and in the car on Tuesday night. I made one pull up and down the street on Wednesday night and everything thing seemed to be ok. We loaded the corolla on the three car and hit the road for Arizona around 3 am thursday morning.
