After several attempts to free the hood, all unsuccessful, I decided to just take it to a shop. It's 20-30f outside and I had had enough. (Took the shop 1.5 hours to open it.)

Since the hood was freed, I felt motivated to work on some other things.

- Installed new RainX wipers all around
- Installed new idle dampner bolt and o-ring.

This helped the loping at temperature - which was extremely pronounced before - to where it is more of a constant albeit reduced shake. It's an improvement, but not a complete fix. However, I would have been shocked if it had.

Valves were last adjusted... who knows. That's probably going to have to wait until nice weather though.

- Fixed gasket on firewall (Drivers side where the vacuum lines come in).

The gasket has been messed with and was pushed completely into the engine bay allowing massive amounts of Maine winter to rush into the footwell at speed. It's still a tiny bit drafty down there. Much much better though. Now if only the floor heat was working...

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Greg
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