i got the car super cheap. had a bad engine and the lady was moving. i figured out that it has a broke timing belt. uhoh, this is an interfrerence engine. i put a new belt on and did a compression test. turns out 2 cylinder were at zero compression and 1 has 80psi. the rest were all 200psi which is normal.
luckily it was the front cylinder which has bad compression, so i pulled the head and found that all 3 front cylinders had belt valves, curiously, only the intake valves were belt. how that happend ill never know, but anyways i am ready to clean the headgasket area and put her back together. then i thought i would take pics half way through the process so some of you know the complexity of changing a head gasket. it isnt all that hard.
note that this engine has atleast 120,000 miles on it. the lady who i got the car from said she awalys had the oil changes at quickie lubes every 3-4K miles. also note that you will see some red looking stains on the cylinders which look like rust. this is actually a rust preventitive spary that i put on to keep the metal parts of the engine from rusting from rusting while i worked on the head the big chunky rust between the cylinders on the outside of the block is infact rust, from the leaking waterpump which took out the timing belt.
also note that the bottom of the valve cover is painted black, thats not slugge. there is actually very little slughe in this engine. the external part of the block sure looks rusty.
ala in all this repair cost be about $160 in parts, but thats because i decided to splurge on new plugs, wires and other maintence parts on top of the valves and headgasket and other gaskets.
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luckily it was the front cylinder which has bad compression, so i pulled the head and found that all 3 front cylinders had belt valves, curiously, only the intake valves were belt. how that happend ill never know, but anyways i am ready to clean the headgasket area and put her back together. then i thought i would take pics half way through the process so some of you know the complexity of changing a head gasket. it isnt all that hard.
note that this engine has atleast 120,000 miles on it. the lady who i got the car from said she awalys had the oil changes at quickie lubes every 3-4K miles. also note that you will see some red looking stains on the cylinders which look like rust. this is actually a rust preventitive spary that i put on to keep the metal parts of the engine from rusting from rusting while i worked on the head the big chunky rust between the cylinders on the outside of the block is infact rust, from the leaking waterpump which took out the timing belt.
also note that the bottom of the valve cover is painted black, thats not slugge. there is actually very little slughe in this engine. the external part of the block sure looks rusty.
ala in all this repair cost be about $160 in parts, but thats because i decided to splurge on new plugs, wires and other maintence parts on top of the valves and headgasket and other gaskets.
http://users.adelphia.net/~smithjoe/dodge_startus.htm