I want to thank Perry, Rusty and Leon - and those others who, in months past, have contributed information - for all the help that helped me form a picture of what I needed/wanted in an engine.

It would seem that serendipity has come into play.  My #2 son is home from Coast Guard service, and he just happens to own a pickup.  A few weeks back, I had turned up an internet listing for an '86 13B at a *way* out-of-the-way salvage yard and, because I had a service call that took me within about ten miles of the place, I stopped in to take a peek.  It wasn't entirely an encouraging sight.  It was sitting on a little wheeled cradle; no flywheel; and *really* coated with dirt.  But it was FI - and unlike the one in a Phoenix yard, last fall, the crank angle sensor was intact.  It was stored with the holes taped up and semi-inside.  They wanted $300, but I didn't have the money with me, and there wasn't enough room in my corporate-issued mini-van to put it anyway.  Today, I called back - they still had the engine.  I asked if they'd take $200 for it.  The guy asked, "today?"  I told him I could be there in an hour.  Apparently, he was hungry.  I like that in a seller - motivated.

I now have a reasonably complete 13B.  Now I have to get it apart and figure out whether I have a rebuilable engine or just a core for exchange.

I guess it's time to get Bruce's video.

Again, thank you very much.

With warm regard,
Dale R.
COZY MkIV #1254