NotLaw
Active Member
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2008
- Messages
- 498
- Location
- Cedar City, UT
- Car(s)
- '90 Saab SPG, '84 K5 Blazer, '67 Fairlane 500
Well, first up, a video i should have put up in July, but have been procrastinating with
My New (then) exhaust:
[YOUTUBE]fplndvRlu1I[/YOUTUBE]
And on to the more recent news:
Turns out, one of my few winter excursions with the car broke the oil drain plug, a small problem, right? It would be if it didn?t already have a (stripped) oversize drain plug, forcing me to use one of those stupid rubber things.
Well, I decided that since I probably need a new pan, i might as well try using a bolt again, so, down to checkers to get a double oversize drain plug.
Which promptly broke the tack welds in the pan, rendering it completely useless.
So, I needed a new oil pan, which meant I had to, at least partially pull the engine.
And if I am at least partially pulling the engine, I might as well go all the way, and double check the shoddy engine rebuild that was done at some point in the cars past.
Ended up finding aluminum shavings in the pan, as well as a severely carbon-ed up combustion chamber, and discolored valves. As well as painted gaskets, many missing bolts, and one loose(ish) rocker, as well as mismatched head bolts (a few of which were loose) and several missing exhaust manifold bolts.
At this point, I?m thinking: Well shit. If they can?t put all the bolts in, and they couldn?t properly tighten the ones they did put in, whose to say they did the main caps right? Or the rods? Or hell, ANYTHING?
A Remanufactured engine is only about $1400, shipped to my door, and installed, with the core shipped back. And it would have more power, and be knowingly built right.
Verses about $400 of machine work on the heads, and about $500-$800 of machine work and assembly work on the block itself, along with the $100 gasket set.
So, the plan now, since its winter, and I can?t drive it anyways, I will save up my $$$ and get the new engine. In the meantime, I will clean up the old one (get the carbon off, old gasket, etc) so that it can be shipped back as a core, AND, if it?s taking too long to save up the money for a new engine, I can put the old one back together as-is, and run it till it dies, or I get the money to get the new engine.
And, PICTURES!!
REMEMBER, always drain ALL the fluids before pulling a engine. the transmission too! D'oh
My New (then) exhaust:
[YOUTUBE]fplndvRlu1I[/YOUTUBE]
And on to the more recent news:
Turns out, one of my few winter excursions with the car broke the oil drain plug, a small problem, right? It would be if it didn?t already have a (stripped) oversize drain plug, forcing me to use one of those stupid rubber things.
Well, I decided that since I probably need a new pan, i might as well try using a bolt again, so, down to checkers to get a double oversize drain plug.
Which promptly broke the tack welds in the pan, rendering it completely useless.
So, I needed a new oil pan, which meant I had to, at least partially pull the engine.
And if I am at least partially pulling the engine, I might as well go all the way, and double check the shoddy engine rebuild that was done at some point in the cars past.
Ended up finding aluminum shavings in the pan, as well as a severely carbon-ed up combustion chamber, and discolored valves. As well as painted gaskets, many missing bolts, and one loose(ish) rocker, as well as mismatched head bolts (a few of which were loose) and several missing exhaust manifold bolts.
At this point, I?m thinking: Well shit. If they can?t put all the bolts in, and they couldn?t properly tighten the ones they did put in, whose to say they did the main caps right? Or the rods? Or hell, ANYTHING?
A Remanufactured engine is only about $1400, shipped to my door, and installed, with the core shipped back. And it would have more power, and be knowingly built right.
Verses about $400 of machine work on the heads, and about $500-$800 of machine work and assembly work on the block itself, along with the $100 gasket set.
So, the plan now, since its winter, and I can?t drive it anyways, I will save up my $$$ and get the new engine. In the meantime, I will clean up the old one (get the carbon off, old gasket, etc) so that it can be shipped back as a core, AND, if it?s taking too long to save up the money for a new engine, I can put the old one back together as-is, and run it till it dies, or I get the money to get the new engine.
And, PICTURES!!
REMEMBER, always drain ALL the fluids before pulling a engine. the transmission too! D'oh