Engine in pieces, Any ideas guys? Options

[nightryder]

I have most of my engine taken aprat now, i recently found a crack in my cylinder head and decided to be adventurous and fix it myself. I have the intake apart, the exuast manifold out, head off, valve cover off, alternator out. I already bought all new gaskets and belts including timing belt (and a new head of course). im at the stage where my pistons are exposed and im wondering if anyone has anything that i can do while im inside of her ?

thanx guys
nate

This post has been edited by nightryder: Nov 16, 2005 - 11:34 PM

[JoKeRkId613]

well if you need someone to tell you what to do while youre inside of her then maybe this is something youre not ready to tackle. j/k. sounds good man. what're your goals as far as the engine goes. what are the plans?

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

Plain the head down, and port and polish. Other than that, replace everything you can. Rings are more than likely a good idea while your at it.

[Batman722]

I have most of my engine taken aprat now, i recently found a crack in my cylinder head and decided to be adventurous and fix it myself. I have the intake apart, the exuast manifold out, head off, valve cover off, alternator out. I already bought all new gaskets and belts including timing belt (and a new head of course). im at the stage where my pistons are exposed and im wondering if anyone has anything that i can do while im inside of her ?

thanx guys
nate

I have a GT engine for sale, less than 100K miles on it and runs great if you get stuck and want to swap it in. In Mass too

[nightryder]

well if you need someone to tell you what to do while youre inside of her then maybe this is something youre not ready to tackle. j/k. sounds good man. what're your goals as far as the engine goes. what are the plans?

lol I know what im doing. I am armed to the teeth with a haynes manual and a buddy who works at a Toyota dealership near my town. its coming along alright, My plans? I just want to get her rolling again. shes been off the road for almost two weeks now. and im lookin at another couple of days once shes fixed to have my top replaced. (couple guys broke into my car a few weeks ago, they cut my top i broke one of their jaws) But other than what im doing, i dont have any further plans until the summer time. I just didnt know if you guys knew of anything that I could do to try and help her run a lil better while im in here. Its a shame to go through all this work and only change the head ya know? I can see that my intake is pretty filthy on the inside, is there any way to clean that out?

I have most of my engine taken aprat now, i recently found a crack in my cylinder head and decided to be adventurous and fix it myself. I have the intake apart, the exuast manifold out, head off, valve cover off, alternator out. I already bought all new gaskets and belts including timing belt (and a new head of course). im at the stage where my pistons are exposed and im wondering if anyone has anything that i can do while im inside of her ?

thanx guys
nate

I have a GT engine for sale, less than 100K miles on it and runs great if you get stuck and want to swap it in. In Mass too

Thanks bro, but i think she'll make it. If i get stuck ill give you a call tho.

[soulshadow]

well if you need someone to tell you what to do while youre inside of her then maybe this is something youre not ready to tackle. j/k. sounds good man. what're your goals as far as the engine goes. what are the plans?

lol I know what im doing. I am armed to the teeth with a haynes manual and a buddy who works at a Toyota dealership near my town. its coming along alright, My plans? I just want to get her rolling again. shes been off the road for almost two weeks now. and im lookin at another couple of days once shes fixed to have my top replaced. (couple guys broke into my car a few weeks ago, they cut my top i broke one of their jaws) But other than what im doing, i dont have any further plans until the summer time. I just didnt know if you guys knew of anything that I could do to try and help her run a lil better while im in here. Its a shame to go through all this work and only change the head ya know? I can see that my intake is pretty filthy on the inside, is there any way to clean that out?

I have most of my engine taken aprat now, i recently found a crack in my cylinder head and decided to be adventurous and fix it myself. I have the intake apart, the exuast manifold out, head off, valve cover off, alternator out. I already bought all new gaskets and belts including timing belt (and a new head of course). im at the stage where my pistons are exposed and im wondering if anyone has anything that i can do while im inside of her ?

thanx guys
nate

I have a GT engine for sale, less than 100K miles on it and runs great if you get stuck and want to swap it in. In Mass too

Thanks bro, but i think she'll make it. If i get stuck ill give you a call tho.

haynes manual?? The last thing that strapped me down was Haynes manual and Chiltons.
So after a while, I threw the two books away and went at it myself. Theres nothing like a Prize other than a Surprize!

[nightryder]

well if you need someone to tell you what to do while youre inside of her then maybe this is something youre not ready to tackle. j/k. sounds good man. what're your goals as far as the engine goes. what are the plans?

lol I know what im doing. I am armed to the teeth with a haynes manual and a buddy who works at a Toyota dealership near my town. its coming along alright, My plans? I just want to get her rolling again. shes been off the road for almost two weeks now. and im lookin at another couple of days once shes fixed to have my top replaced. (couple guys broke into my car a few weeks ago, they cut my top i broke one of their jaws) But other than what im doing, i dont have any further plans until the summer time. I just didnt know if you guys knew of anything that I could do to try and help her run a lil better while im in here. Its a shame to go through all this work and only change the head ya know? I can see that my intake is pretty filthy on the inside, is there any way to clean that out?

I have most of my engine taken aprat now, i recently found a crack in my cylinder head and decided to be adventurous and fix it myself. I have the intake apart, the exuast manifold out, head off, valve cover off, alternator out. I already bought all new gaskets and belts including timing belt (and a new head of course). im at the stage where my pistons are exposed and im wondering if anyone has anything that i can do while im inside of her ?

thanx guys
nate

I have a GT engine for sale, less than 100K miles on it and runs great if you get stuck and want to swap it in. In Mass too

Thanks bro, but i think she'll make it. If i get stuck ill give you a call tho.

haynes manual?? The last thing that strapped me down was Haynes manual and Chiltons.
So after a while, I threw the two books away and went at it myself. Theres nothing like a Prize other than a Surprize!

Yeah i dont know where id be without the Haynes! That and my video camera, I filmed most of it so I would remeber how it all went back together, it is a lot to rememebr for a newbie such as myself

[WannabeGT4]

I think you need to elaborate on the jaw breaking going on.

[jayi12-15psi]

I don't get it

[WannabeGT4]

(couple guys broke into my car a few weeks ago, they cut my top i broke one of their jaws)

[nightryder]

Yeah about 2 months ago my car was broken into. I came outside and saw my window broken and stuff so i looked around and saw 2 kids running away from the car when they saw me. Just some punk college kids, so i chased one of em down, tripped him up and popped him in the jaw. They tryed cutting through my top first, that didnt work so they busted in my window and tryed stealin my stereo. they didnt get it, just gauged up my dash real good Nobody touches my baby like that.

[BBoYRuGGeD]

They tryed cutting through my top first, that didnt work so they busted in my window and tryed stealin my stereo.

thats why im sticking with my stock stereo system...that crap happens all the time here in jersey! damn u musta been angry. u called the cops on 'em afterwards?

bboy