[mikepellegrini]

You put oil in it and it was running. Do you see any coolant in the oil?

One common thing on these cars is white milky crap forming on the under side of the oil filler cap - which looks really bad but doesn't mean anything at all - just condensation.

Have you observed the car overheating? If so, do the fans work? Is there proper coolant in it, etc?

Like Slam said, your #2 plug does look awful clean, but if there is no cross contamination (water in oil, etc), and it's not over heating or blowing white smoke, I'd write it off to the PO boing a moron and just drive it.

If you're gonna do the OPRV, yes you should have a special tool to align the OPRV.

Although when I did mine, I just found a deep-dish socket that was the right size and used that and an extension and it worked great. Just depends on your level of expertise. My worry was if the socket came off the extension - I woulda had to take everything off and start over. Fortunately, that didn't happen. Your mileage may vary.