Missed the Lake. Car is Jacked.

It was hot today….only getting hotter. I think the forcast for next Friday is currently 105°F. That shouldn’t be allowed. Basically every day for the forseeable future is going to be 100°F. That is my new normal I guess. The run today wasn’t so bad. I think it was around 97°F but I didn’t notice that much. I brought some water and I was fine. It was another 8 mile easy run which wasn’t so bad. The lake was nice to see regardless of the heat.

I couldn’t stop thinking about that damn car throughout the whole run though. I changed out the distributor today in hopes that by some luck that would fix the problem. Deep down in my gut….even though I know nothing about cars…..I knew that wasn’t going to be the issue. However that was a fairly inexpensive thing to rule out. When that didn’t work I went for my run and thought about what the problem could be. I kept going back to that cam shaft and the attached parts. Most of which I likely won’t be able to fix myself. Well, after dinner I pulled the valve cover to see if they would move when turning it over only to find a mess. Some of the rocker arms were sideways and the pusher rods were out of place. There is more going on inside that thing. I will probably pull the other valve cover tomorrow to see what that side looks like then decide what I want to do. I’m a little bummed I couldn’t get it fixed on my own but I’m excited about what it could become.