Valve horror :eek:
Racer
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Point Pleasant NJ
try buying a car that was beaten to death (thrown rod) brought back to life (new motor) and then after 500 miles let sit for 12+ years... without knowing it until you started working on it!! Hope you have better luck than the fool i was referring to!!! (me)
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Bay Area CA
I hear you.. Looks like the prev owner of my car was drunk all the time when he worked on the car.
Every screws and bolts have been replaced with oversized ones. Now the right sized ones are not fitting.
He broke everything that he took out.
Surprisingly the paint and the underbody was good. It passed my visual inspection before buying.
Safety Car
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Jersey Shore Exit 98
some of that gunk is holding the old motor together. I once cleaned up a set of gunked up heads on my wife's first car when we were dating. Car never used oil or smoked until you guessed it I clean up the heads. I would run very lite weight detergent motor oil like 5/30 in it for 100 to 200 miles drain & refill w/clean detergent oil for 200 to 500 then replace w/ 10w40. I knew a guy who filled the engine w/trany oil ran the car 50 miles and it cleaned up all the gunk.
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bay Area CA
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2002
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From: New Baden Illinois
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Covington, Virginia
Started the motor in my 72 project when I got it home. The receipts that I got said the motor had been rebuilt. (the girl that I bought the car from was from a family of mud-bog racers, chevy engines in Jeeps) I had no reason to believe the motor had NOT been rebuilt. I was going to leave it alone. I decided to pull the heads, top end gaskets are not that expensive. When I got the heads off, I found the heads had been glass beaded and had not been cleaned adequately (beads in the water jacket) The cylinder bores had been honed, still had crosshatching!! Pistons are new, valve job is new, they didn't touch the crank!!! scored and gouged and the new bearings were already showing copper.....When I pulled the pistons/rods out, I found 3 broken rings.....am I glad I pulled the motor!!
