My friend wanted to takle a timing belt change on his own, in the process of all the hoses off and trying to find TDC he gave up and brought it to a shop to install the already purchased parts. He drops it off and they install it and call after saying spark plug in cylinder #4 blew out… They put a heliocoil and say theres no compression in it and say they need to remove the head because theres a bent valve, to find this:
went to a reconditioning head shop and he said theres nothing to do if a spark plug hole os cracked but buy a new head...i told my friend he needs to order a new head now and a new piston, engine has 250k on it but its a good body with minimal rust spots, only the battery tray suffers a bit. Worth fixing is the main question here or should he get another m20/ or part out, maybe sell the car completely. If he used that piston I'm pretty sure the compression would blow a hole in it right? Trying to figure out the cheapest way possible to get this body on the road again.
CAR RAN 100% perfect before the timing belt change was tackled….
went to a reconditioning head shop and he said theres nothing to do if a spark plug hole os cracked but buy a new head...i told my friend he needs to order a new head now and a new piston, engine has 250k on it but its a good body with minimal rust spots, only the battery tray suffers a bit. Worth fixing is the main question here or should he get another m20/ or part out, maybe sell the car completely. If he used that piston I'm pretty sure the compression would blow a hole in it right? Trying to figure out the cheapest way possible to get this body on the road again.
CAR RAN 100% perfect before the timing belt change was tackled….
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