well its been a ****ty ass 2 months. the pro has just about had w rench go thru the windshield ill explain!!
step one replaced weak motor with a JDM import
head gasket blows 3 days later
pull it all apart wait for warranty on the head and gasket
finally got everything all rounded up new gaskets, rebuild my stock head, new head bolts, ect ect ect
start to put it all back together thinking wahooo finally its all going smoothly until it shears off the top 3 threads on the far left upper head bolt hole!! WTF!!!
start to go balistic but then figure ok thats the problem thats why the head gave out the threads were weak and just didnt get enough torque.
no big deal YET!!!!! so far im at about 1200 bucks including all the new **** in the motor and clutch.
pull the sob out wait for almost 2 weeks till i can make a trip to the mainland to do a warranty exchange on the motor and get a replacement
in the mean time move in with the inlaws cause our apartment/condo sold and we had to move out. our new place isnt available for us to move into until july 1st
went to the mainland this tuesday night got home wednesday night thursday spent the day cleaning new motor and trying to salvage all my old gaskets out of the old jdm motor managed to salvage most. pulled head and replaced with my fresh rebuilt head got to the lower head bolt on the #3 cylinder yanks the top 3 threads out of the block again i havent even got the first step of 50 foot pounds done as same with the first time omg wtf im gonna scream now. this point im ****in balisitic i want blood. i started to think what the hell could be causing this. light turns on check head bolts again did this when i got from dealer but maybe something is wrong with them this is ****in killing me now.
check em against my original head bolts. nope same size. grabbed a jdm head bolt omfg found it the damn jdm head bolts are almost a 1 and 1/2 inches longer. put in original head gasket that blew out and stock jdm head bolts in and checked to see if this block is ****ed also nope wahooooooooooo salvage d everything is working out great still have about 8 full turns in head bolts and as long as you have at least 6 your golden as my machine guy says.
so round up anouther head gasket cause the last one was crushed twice to 50 ft pounds so a 3rd time wouldnt be smart. get it all back together thinking everything is going awesome.. FINISHED so i thought bleed the clutch start it and other than normal hla ticks damn she sounds nice wait for hla's to pump up let it idle for about 30 min so far so good. everything but hood is on the car wahooo time for first drive get in put car in reverse let out clutch the most god aweful gear grinding teeth jaring noises came from under the hood wtf car dies get out check make sure everything is good so far everything looks ok start car back up wahoo not the motor try trans again same thing try 1st nope wont go 2nd goes but car goes no were and sounds horrible 3rd wont go in 4the same as second 5 wont go in reverse kills engine wtf check linkage nothing wrong.... as of today saturday night i have a new trans sitting in my warehouse out of a 92 EGT and monday will pull trans out and replace with egt trans ill let you all know wtf happened to the stock trans but i know it aint good
LETS hear you top that rash of bad luck so far i think im almost @ 1700 bucks for a damn engine that smoked at start up god what a disaster
step one replaced weak motor with a JDM import
head gasket blows 3 days later
pull it all apart wait for warranty on the head and gasket
finally got everything all rounded up new gaskets, rebuild my stock head, new head bolts, ect ect ect
start to put it all back together thinking wahooo finally its all going smoothly until it shears off the top 3 threads on the far left upper head bolt hole!! WTF!!!
start to go balistic but then figure ok thats the problem thats why the head gave out the threads were weak and just didnt get enough torque.
no big deal YET!!!!! so far im at about 1200 bucks including all the new **** in the motor and clutch.
pull the sob out wait for almost 2 weeks till i can make a trip to the mainland to do a warranty exchange on the motor and get a replacement
in the mean time move in with the inlaws cause our apartment/condo sold and we had to move out. our new place isnt available for us to move into until july 1st
went to the mainland this tuesday night got home wednesday night thursday spent the day cleaning new motor and trying to salvage all my old gaskets out of the old jdm motor managed to salvage most. pulled head and replaced with my fresh rebuilt head got to the lower head bolt on the #3 cylinder yanks the top 3 threads out of the block again i havent even got the first step of 50 foot pounds done as same with the first time omg wtf im gonna scream now. this point im ****in balisitic i want blood. i started to think what the hell could be causing this. light turns on check head bolts again did this when i got from dealer but maybe something is wrong with them this is ****in killing me now.
check em against my original head bolts. nope same size. grabbed a jdm head bolt omfg found it the damn jdm head bolts are almost a 1 and 1/2 inches longer. put in original head gasket that blew out and stock jdm head bolts in and checked to see if this block is ****ed also nope wahooooooooooo salvage d everything is working out great still have about 8 full turns in head bolts and as long as you have at least 6 your golden as my machine guy says.
so round up anouther head gasket cause the last one was crushed twice to 50 ft pounds so a 3rd time wouldnt be smart. get it all back together thinking everything is going awesome.. FINISHED so i thought bleed the clutch start it and other than normal hla ticks damn she sounds nice wait for hla's to pump up let it idle for about 30 min so far so good. everything but hood is on the car wahooo time for first drive get in put car in reverse let out clutch the most god aweful gear grinding teeth jaring noises came from under the hood wtf car dies get out check make sure everything is good so far everything looks ok start car back up wahoo not the motor try trans again same thing try 1st nope wont go 2nd goes but car goes no were and sounds horrible 3rd wont go in 4the same as second 5 wont go in reverse kills engine wtf check linkage nothing wrong.... as of today saturday night i have a new trans sitting in my warehouse out of a 92 EGT and monday will pull trans out and replace with egt trans ill let you all know wtf happened to the stock trans but i know it aint good
LETS hear you top that rash of bad luck so far i think im almost @ 1700 bucks for a damn engine that smoked at start up god what a disaster
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