Just for interest sake, which part of the above advice is illogical Marty? We are all working with very little information and nothing further from the OP to help with a diagnosis.
As you said "Not intentionally being hard on anyone but it is hard to not react when posts are being put up with little to no logic.
A few symptoms is all you have to work with when diagnosing hands on and you use those symptoms to create logical theories and then use a process of elimination to prove or eliminate the theories that were based on logic not guesses.
Just getting sick of the whole forum mentality i guess where people become instant experts using google and disregard and even argue with advice offered by experienced trained professionals."
How do we know who has or has not got knowledge here? I didn't detect any arguments. I think all who responded here were doing just that... Process of elimination... But no-one here suggested an expensive and costly "fix". I guess you would prefer to have the vehicle in front of you to properly diagnose. But, alas we don't! The OP was looking for some free advice and got it!
Don't give up on us here Marty, some of us here are just trying to be helpful and I for one DO value your input.
Have a happy Christmas and a good break to all of us here at newhilux forum.