By the way, another red herring was the temp gauge. New when I rebuilt the gauge cluster.
It appeared that the engine was suddenly running hotter as well.
Turns out the gauge has gon out of calibration.
Engine used to read 170 in normal running, suddenly it was 185.
Turns out it doesn't return to 0. Today the shop was 75 in the morning and the cold engine was reading about 120.
More reproduction part junk? Don't think I've ever seen a waxstat do that before.
