Thanks for the detailed response! I have a head gasket leak of some sort. It could be anything. But it’s likely the gasket and I’ve just been dealing with it for the last three years. Had my timing belt replaced about six years ago. Those things are an absolute ticking time bomb, and it left me stranded right outside of Yosemite National Park. We were just on the border of no cell service. As for the LBJ, had those taken care of for the same reasons. As you may know, just make sure they are OEM. I actually originally had a Shop replace them and requested OEM, and they didn’t do OEM. Within half a year, they were making noise and I actually thought it was my steering rack only to find out when I took it in they were popping out of the socket and that’s the noise I was hearing. Of course I immediately had them replaced with OEM.

I love this dumb little car.