Hi guys i have been on here before and was lucky enough to have bex and few other guys help me solve some issues i had with my 1990. I have a few questions, again, but starting first with "why in the hell do all these samurias and trackers keep blowing headgaskets between cylinders 2 and 3" i was on here first for an over cooling issue that turned out to be the blown headgasket, and chased thermostats and fan clutches until the thing really blew and i could just get it home. I just finished helping a buddy with his 1.3 samurai that had a blown headgasket between 2-3 (just like my 1990) and while the thing overheated and the gasket was as crusty as could be that was my second one changing in 6 months with all motors having under 100k on them. Now im digging into my 1993 and have had several problems to sort out, but after wondering why it cranks so much before starting and runs like crap i unplugged the spark plug wires, 1 killed it, 2 did nothing, 3 did nothing, and 4 killed it. I pulled the plugs to double check, and with the bad news i find a craving to drown my sorrows in gin and kick the jack stands out with myself underneath. The red 1990 is good now, The blue 1993 has several problems, the strut towers are bent in giving me mad positive camber (maybe it'll finally straighten out with that lift i always wanted!) and the trans mount was gone, so i replaced the saggy motor mounts, the missing trans mount only to find my shifter is still almost touching in the uppermost passenger corner like before. I am at a loss, all the mounts are good, but the shifter is not in the correct place by a long shot. And yes, someone jumped it or something because i just swapped out the 3rd member for a spare i had and the bent strut towers, im trying to fix it all. All that being said the engine mounts and trans brace are undamaged and as i can tell straight. The fan clutch isnt pushed into the radiator and the distributor isnt mashed against the firewall so what gives? any ideas are welcome, i would can this thing for parts but apart from a few underside dents and tweaks it doesnt have any rust is in good shape. So my questions are, why so many headgaskets (i don't touch them before hand, they just get to me broken) and whats with my shifter being so far off still even with new mounts?