battery voltage is good now..(he drained it by continuosly trying to start it over and over) Only trouble code that I got was something about "secondary air intake system malfunction" or something like that..... What about a relay for the actual injectors? I can hear the pump itself runnin...

The car will start if ya give it part throttle but shuts back off immediately like it's running out of gas, fuel pump is humming like it should and we don't know what the fuel pressure is yet but we are at least getting fuel to the fuel rail (pushed in the release on the valve with a small screw dri...

with my timing light, I have a digital timing light that allows you to keep adjusting the light flash to coincide with the timing marks. I set it to 0 and the mark on the front cam is way out of alignment with the marks on the cover. And now that I'm thinking about it, it's reading that it is 90 deg...

Ok, today I took the thermostat back out and flushed water thru the system again, no apparrent blockages. I tried filling the whole system again to avoid air bubbles, and we installed a new cap on the expansion bottle. Now it doesn't overheat idling at all, it can sit and run for two hours and not c...

no, I haven't. I'll try it today. Here is another odd part that I forgot to mention---After I bypassed the heater core (trying to eliminate all possibilities) we let it idle in my garage for about 45 minutes and it didn't overheat, took it on a test drive thru town and on the hwy and it still didn't...

Right now it is just water, as far as the temp of the bottom hose I'll have to check it tomorrow. I don't recall it getting hot or kinking but I'll double check it. As far as your comment about the upside down Ford head gasket.......I made that mistake myself many moons ago!!!!!

another thought, even with the new water pump the flow seems to be very little, But I know the t-stat is opening. Is it possible for the opening in the block where the water pump sits to get worn out and make the "cavity" to large to pump sufficient water or not build up "pressure&quo...

here is where we are now, The "new" water pump that I mentioned in the first post is the only item that I didn't physically replace myself (I was told by the previous owner that it was replaced) so to avoid any more doubt I replaced it yesterday and the one that was on it was still the fac...

which return line are you asking about?

yeah fan kicks on every time with no problem