[Zeke]

My '89 was pretty nasty to stand behind especially for the first few minutes. Yet it passed each year. I never replaced the 2 injectors, but MotorMan has them for about 30 ea. IIRC. My butterfly in the TB would get kinda crumbed up and I'd shoot it with Berryman's occasionally. A new air filter always helped.

And yes, I ran the distributor a wee bit advanced over the factory specs as well as a lower temp t-stat (by about 20º). I got over 250K out it w/o ever even removing the valve covers. Bought it new.

Going to a 16 year newer truck has been interesting.

Oh, and those years were notorious for bad valve seals in the heads, so they smoked.