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Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Blown Head Gasket < Reply # 24 on 11/25/2012 4:34 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by splumer So we got the valve cover off, well he did, and we were removing the rocker arms, pushrods and plugs. One of the pushrods (#6) was bent at about a 20 degree angle, and the plug that was in that cylinder had the electrodes bent over to one side, with the ceramic around the center electrode missing. I assume that the pushrod was probably due to the valve being stuck, which would explain the ticking and knocking. Once we get the head off we'll figure out the valve. But what happened to the plug is a mystery.
| uh oh... possible piston collision? Splumer, baby, the deeper you get into this engine, i hate to say, you might find more shit wrong with it than a headgasket.
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| splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio Gender: Male Total Likes: 201 likes
| | | Re: Blown Head Gasket < Reply # 32 on 11/25/2012 10:54 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by bandi Buy a junkyard engine. This thing is toast... beyond a head gasket. You're wasting your time and money at this point.
| Agreed. We're gonna start tracking one down tomorrow. Dude at the auto parts store (who talks like Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) said maybe $400 for a junkyard engine, and I figured we could get probably a hundred or more for the old engine either selling it as is or for scrap. My son's pretty bummed, though. It's his first car (besides his Cozy Coupe) and it was what he really wanted, and to have it so fucked up so early into having it, well, let's just say he's not happy. The sort of upside is, my mom's in the hospital and so my son's been driving her car, a 2006 PT Cruiser with a 2.5L 4 in it. Hmmmm.... But seriously, when we do find an engine, will my 2005 Liberty hold it in the back to get it home, or do I need to get someone with a pickup?
| “We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.” -Madeline Albright |
| splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio Gender: Male Total Likes: 201 likes
| | | Re: Blown Head Gasket < Reply # 39 on 11/26/2012 3:13 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai believe it or not, but i have been thinking most of the day about your Jeep problem and man, something doesn't smell right in suburbia. It's almost like the people that had this Jeep knew something awful was a'brewin under the bonnet and they sold it quick to a a kid who (i'm assuming) knew very little about cars and mechanicals. So now it's someone else's problem.
| I was with him, so I accept some of the blame. I did a compression test on it, and it checked a little low, but not unacceptably so. Otherwise, it seemed OK, except for a tick, which I assumed was a stuck rocker arm. Oh well, it is what it is. I told him I'd help him out as much as I could with buying the engine. Looking online, we're looking at $300 - $400. The 6's seem a lot more common, so it may be some time before we find one. But he has some connections, so I think it will turn out OK. Thanks for all your input. I will keep you updated on the ongoing saga.
| “We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.” -Madeline Albright |
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