I wound up with about $1800 total into the car (new tires, new CV axles, new wheel bearings, new brake pads & rotors all around, hubcaps, battery, whole bunch of stuff) and determined that the oil leak was rear main seal. Had most of the work done for the cost of parts by a high school shop class in a deal that would have done Arthur Daley proud. They also took a crack at the bodywork. It's not perfect but it is a whole goddamn sight better than it was.
I had a couple different shops check it out and make sure it was reliable enough to be a daily driver and then tried to sell it to cover the money. Sort of did, really. Wound up selling it to a friend for $1500 plus a rustbucket '87 Camry Wagon 5spd/4cyl that I'd sold them a year earlier for $250. It's still going strong.
I'm actually revisiting this thread to get the intake plenum removal down to do the spark plugs on a 1990 ES250 that another friend of mine bought from me.
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Between my friends and I, we've owned over 16 Gen2 Camry Wagons. And we want more.
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