pelotudo
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- City, State
- orlando, fl
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '91 Sport
Whelp, after having her a couple months, my 91 decided she wanted to stick or burn a valve on me.
Coming home about 1 am last week, cruisin about 60, she starts missing bad, and my cab fills up with blue smoke. I pull over and let her idle, and she's just pouring blue smoke out the back and running like crap. I get her home, and take her to work the next morning. She runs (on 5 cylinders, cylinder no. 5 is gone), but backfires like crazy, and billows blue smoke out the back.
I've got the engine about 3/4 of the way ready to be pulled. Pulling the tranny back tomorrow afternoon, and the engine will be coming out tomorrow night. At this point, I'm not sure which way I should go with her though, and wanted to see if you guys had any advice.
Before she went, she smoked a little bit. If I got her up to about 4k, or when I shifted at about 4k, she would puff a little bit out the back, but nothing other than that. Body has 160k on her, but the people I got her from said she was rebuilt at 80k, which I'm starting to doubt.
I checked on a rebuild kit for her, and a full kit with pistons (From my work, I work at a parts store), is $1100 from Federal Mogul (Sealed Power), which is way more than I was looking to spend. I wanna see how bad the heads are, and I can get them done w/ a 3 angle for $125. I was going to do that, and was thinking about just ringing and throwing some bearings in her, which would be a lot cheaper (as long as my bottom end isn't scarred up). With this many miles though, am I going to get much out of the engine w/o taking her 30/60 over, or should I just not even waste my time, and grab a j/yard motor? Anyone done this before have any suggestions? Any any tips I need to know while taking the engine out, or while it's apart I should know, I would greatly appreciate. Thx.
-Jon
Cliffnotes: Out of nowhere engine drops cylinder no 5. Tons of blue smoke, backfiring, and no. 5 dead. Taking engine out tomorrow, getting heads done. Want to know if engine w/ 160k miles can be re-ringed w/ some bearing, or am I going to have to bore her out.
Coming home about 1 am last week, cruisin about 60, she starts missing bad, and my cab fills up with blue smoke. I pull over and let her idle, and she's just pouring blue smoke out the back and running like crap. I get her home, and take her to work the next morning. She runs (on 5 cylinders, cylinder no. 5 is gone), but backfires like crazy, and billows blue smoke out the back.
I've got the engine about 3/4 of the way ready to be pulled. Pulling the tranny back tomorrow afternoon, and the engine will be coming out tomorrow night. At this point, I'm not sure which way I should go with her though, and wanted to see if you guys had any advice.
Before she went, she smoked a little bit. If I got her up to about 4k, or when I shifted at about 4k, she would puff a little bit out the back, but nothing other than that. Body has 160k on her, but the people I got her from said she was rebuilt at 80k, which I'm starting to doubt.
I checked on a rebuild kit for her, and a full kit with pistons (From my work, I work at a parts store), is $1100 from Federal Mogul (Sealed Power), which is way more than I was looking to spend. I wanna see how bad the heads are, and I can get them done w/ a 3 angle for $125. I was going to do that, and was thinking about just ringing and throwing some bearings in her, which would be a lot cheaper (as long as my bottom end isn't scarred up). With this many miles though, am I going to get much out of the engine w/o taking her 30/60 over, or should I just not even waste my time, and grab a j/yard motor? Anyone done this before have any suggestions? Any any tips I need to know while taking the engine out, or while it's apart I should know, I would greatly appreciate. Thx.
-Jon
Cliffnotes: Out of nowhere engine drops cylinder no 5. Tons of blue smoke, backfiring, and no. 5 dead. Taking engine out tomorrow, getting heads done. Want to know if engine w/ 160k miles can be re-ringed w/ some bearing, or am I going to have to bore her out.
