The last time I bought a house, I seem to remember having another 2v modular with a trashed cylinder 5. Hmm.
Ever since ive owned the car, its set a cylinder 5 misfire almost immediately when it warms up and is in gear. Doing a clear flood crank, it sounded like there was no compression on a cylinder. Brought it to my mechanic to get an actual diagnosis to determine if I need to change the whole engine or just a head. Apparently it's leaking past everything including the helicoil. Not quite sure the chain of events, but there's a very poorly done helicoil, damage to the valves, damage to the piston and a scored wall.
These 2v modular engines tend to last a while except when I have them. A replacement engine was only $500 pulled from a local salvage yard with a warranty. Could have got one less as there were a few for $300 but I'd end up spending just as much in fuel to get them.
They broke the heater outlet off of the intake manifold so I'll have to change that. Not too big of a deal as the intake has to come out to remove the engine anyway. It apparently had the tsb to upgrade to metal tensioners and when I pulled the valve covers I saw the guides were good and chains had no slack, so won't be doing cam chains. I will do the oil filter housing gasket, oil pan gasket and valve cover gaskets before dropping it in. The exhaust manifolds are okay, but I want to do the gaskets and studs so if it ever needs manifolds, it won't be impossible.
Guess I know why the car was significantly cheaper than other rust free panthers....
Ever since ive owned the car, its set a cylinder 5 misfire almost immediately when it warms up and is in gear. Doing a clear flood crank, it sounded like there was no compression on a cylinder. Brought it to my mechanic to get an actual diagnosis to determine if I need to change the whole engine or just a head. Apparently it's leaking past everything including the helicoil. Not quite sure the chain of events, but there's a very poorly done helicoil, damage to the valves, damage to the piston and a scored wall.
These 2v modular engines tend to last a while except when I have them. A replacement engine was only $500 pulled from a local salvage yard with a warranty. Could have got one less as there were a few for $300 but I'd end up spending just as much in fuel to get them.
They broke the heater outlet off of the intake manifold so I'll have to change that. Not too big of a deal as the intake has to come out to remove the engine anyway. It apparently had the tsb to upgrade to metal tensioners and when I pulled the valve covers I saw the guides were good and chains had no slack, so won't be doing cam chains. I will do the oil filter housing gasket, oil pan gasket and valve cover gaskets before dropping it in. The exhaust manifolds are okay, but I want to do the gaskets and studs so if it ever needs manifolds, it won't be impossible.
Guess I know why the car was significantly cheaper than other rust free panthers....