Well, Libby Lives! The guys at Alamo Diesel seem to have done a good job, AND, were responsible-adult enough NOT to do the timing belt, since there's a couple of special tools that they didn't have (I presume a special-sized barring tool and maybe some specially-shaped cam/crank index locking pins). They gave me the phone number of another San Antonio shop that could, but, there's a vehicle-use trade going on between my daughter's household and ours. So, in a couple more days, when it's down here in Corpus Christi, I'll have that done locally. (after a paycheck cycle again, so as to recover from the repair hit, and a set of tires... they weren't bald; they were bawwwllld!) Was nice to hear it run right again.