Can someone please burn this damn thing to the ground?
The clutch wore out (expected at 95,000+ miles) so I did the swap myself. No problem there, but the electrics were all wonkey. OK, I traced to a bad ground, re-did and the car is happy right?
Wrong. The oil pan rusted though and sprang a leak. Doh! So I order the parts from Tokyo and wait for a week or so and do the swap. Hardest part? Removing the oil filter that was apparently welded, epoxy bonded, bolted, and then superglued to the block by the 5-min oil change place. Doh! Got everything bolted back up and now the car runs fine for a minute, but as soon as it starts to heat up the thing just dies at anything over idle. WTF?!?!?
I suspect the O2 sensor because I unplugged it, then plugged it back in. If something is not making a good connection with a 4-wire O2 sensor, what would be the result on performance?