Right now its hard to tell if the idle is affected because I have a high idle problem that I have traced to my idle air valve. It idles between 800 and 1000 RPM's when in neutral but idles 600 RPM in gear and seems pretty smooth so far. I hear a slight ticking under hard acceleration but not when driving normal or crusing.
I plan to replace the air valve within the next few weeks and will probably pull the valve covers off in month or so and do a close inspection of the cam then. I am hoping that I can hold off until next year before I need to replace the cam's, and I may be lucky and only have to do the one on the right side where the ticking seems to be comming from. ...Oh well it took 120,000 miles of poor maintenance to get in the condition it was in when I bought it and if it takes a year of two to put it back in top shape I will have a great car for not a lot of bucks that will last another 150K miles.

Thanks

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