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Yeah I was thinking about Amayama, but I was expecting to get my tank back long before the seals wold get here. Kinda wished I ordered it off the bat though, the tank repair took alot longer than I thought. I suppose we'll see how much life these gaskets form 1987 really have left.

Regarding the stumble, I hear a bad vacuum advance on the distributor can do something similar, albeit I can't confirm. Regardless, if you're seeing soot on the firewall from the exhaust, you should probably replace the manifold gasket anyway. Exhaust studs on these are known for snapping/stripping out, so look into getting a Timesert kit. Before you pull the manifold off, try tightening all of the studs to see which ones are stripped out, if any. Regarding your rear wiper/defrost, that's most likely the switches in the hatch struts not closing due to hatch misalignment. If they're close enough, you can test this by switching the rear wiper on, then walking around back and bumping the hatch itself inward while it's closed to see if the wiper starts moving. 3rd brake light operation is also affected by this. Regarding the seatbelts, check your stop switches at the front and back of the track with a multimeter. I had half my interior torn apart trying to fix the exact same issue until I took my rear stop switch out and saw that one of the connector pins had backed out slightly. Snapped it back in and it's worked ever since.

The data center apparently shut down, so I presume the hardware that hosted the site is gone/wiped

Just tried ordering the pickup tube gasket, unsurprisingly it's NLA. Looks like I'm either reusing my current ones or begging Mikie to get some reproductions going. Thanks for the confirmation.

Hey guys, I'm having a hard time trying to find the part numbers for the gas tank gaskets, the ones for the fuel sending unit and pickup tube plate. Going off of the parts locator, I think the one for the pickup tubes is MB129548, but the line art isn't great, and it doesn't seem to acknowledge the gasket for the level sensing unit. Anyone have them?

That's like asking a bunch of drug addicts and dealers if you should continue to use meth If you got the space, money, and energy to make sure it doesn't sit around and rot away, go for it bro. 4k for a running driving flatty seems reasonable to me, but I'm pretty new to the SQ game. At the very least, try to be someone else's enabler and convince them to buy it.

I ran into the same thing with Imgur links. Just paste the direct link to the image in your post, the new forum software should pick up on it. Don't need BBCode format or anything like that.

Yeah, when you search for a specific page, it tries to find the copy closest to the timeframe you select. I'm not familiar with the process of actually backing up pages, but from what I can tell it's all manually done and might be limited in how much it can actually back up in any given run.

I hear the powers that be are working on migrating some data from a newer backup of the site, but in the meantime, can we have this pinned somewhere for reference?: https://web.archive.org/web/20210411080304/http://www.starquestclub.com/forum/index.php?act=idx It's not perfect, but it's usable. It does have a quirk in that it sometimes likes to throw garbage in some of the URLs like this, leading to a "not found" error: http://www.starquestclub.com/forum/index.php?s=9c66831185d10c0f69a50bcf8a12b725&showforum=54 If you delete everything between "index.php?" and "showforum=" or "showtopic=" and search agin, it works (if the thread/forum was actually crawled through at one point). I believe the persistence of the average StarQuest owner is willing to put up with a little URL manipulation for a bit . I apologize if this has already been suggested, but I haven't seen any posts about it so I'd thought I'd mention it.

I think the most likely reason is due to exhaust heat compromising the seal between the taillight lens and the housing over time, causing condensation and leading to water buildup on the inside. It's the only explanation I can think of that would be consistent across all the environments this happens in. AFAIK the only way to permanently fix that is to re-seal the lens to the housing and possibly modify/relocate the tailpipe.

I'm in the same boat. I think I had about 30 posts before the site went down.

Hey, mine's reportedly from Snohomish. Long way from home. If you do end up replacing the fuel pump, it probably wouldn't hurt to take care of the screen filter that's on the end of the fuel pickup tube in the tank. Not sure where else to get it, but I just got a couple from Randy (goes by Dad here), he may have some more.

Yeah I haven't got to that phase yet, I very much have my hands full with just this one since it's my first project and manual. Luckily I have (almost) all the tools for the job; used to be a Toyota technician for a little bit.

I have been born again. Shame too, didn't even have have enough time to make a proper fool of myself. I've already received a bunch of help from some of you in a past life, but I thought I'd re-introduce. Picked up this 87 Conquest back in February this year off of a kid who only had it for 2 weeks. Has ~160k miles, GM MAF+MAF Translator, Delphi/Trilogy injectors, and a 12a with a 18g? upgraded compressor wheel. It appears to be an original Valencia Gold car, but it's been Maaco'd at one point, so all the gold you see is actually the 2nd coat on top of the original. No evidence of body damage though, and thankfully no rust. The car spent most of it's life in Washington until it made it's way down here in 2007. It actually still has stickers for NWStarquest.com on the windows, albeit appropriately faded by sun exposure. After doing some Wayback Machine stalking of those forums, I found it was owned by someone going by b_mart24, so if any of you run into him, let him know I got some questions. I've already done a bunch of stuff to it, even called the tow truck twice so far. Replaced the head with a NJV, had the steering box rebuilt by Redhead, rebuilt the turbo, and a bunch more with no sign of stopping now. Right now it's off the road as I'm getting the fuel tank cleaned out and relined. Once I get it back on the road I'm hoping to tackle the some running quirks it's got, maybe get some coilovers from MKS. Here are a couple of pics: