rebuilding my 1.3

[silver04rs]

Well I'm new here, Ive been searching around quite a bit but I cant find any posts relating to rebuilding the stock 1.3 liter.

I am picking up a 91 Fester from a buddy, teh engine is hot and Im going to yank it out, rebuild it, and stuff it back in. Im just wondering wheres teh best place to source parts for these things. Im not sure what all I need but are tehy readily available still?

Or should I just try and find a complete engine and swap that in to save myself the hassle?

I would swap the car but I live in CA and the car has been non-op for almost 10 years... its gunna take quite a bit to get this thing street legal again and I don't want to have to jump through 5,000 hoops to get it there

Thanks in advance
Travis

[ejp2fast]

i ended up getting my head gasket upper seal set on ebay, and other parts via local McParts place.... Anything they didn't have, rockauto.com did... depending on what route you want to go (rebuild vs swap) these engines are pretty straight forward as well as easy to work on. Price each source and go from there.

[getnpsi]

if the car is a cali car i doubt they will go over it with a fine toothed comb.

another 1.3 would be a great idea. if you are buying another complete engine hold on i have one with a dead valve that smoked ill GIVE you. out of a 1997 aspire. the price of a head redo is much less than a whole engine. come get it. pm me for number

[silver04rs]

Awesome, that will be a huge help!

PM sent!

[jglutz]

I rebuild my '92 1.3L over a year ago.
I purchased all my parts from NAPA...they included:
Upper end Gasket/seal kit (had all the parts for carbed and FI models
Lower end gasket/seal kit
Rod bearings
Crank bearings
Water Pump
Clutch kit
Rings
Core plugs

Sent the head out and had the valves and seats ground.
Did not press in new guides...they pin gauged like new.
Did not mill the head....not required.
Did not mill the deck either.
Did not bore the block...I was under..thou near...max bore. Could not find oversized pistons
Did cross hatch (hone) the cylinders.
Dis-assembled the oil pump and had it vapor degreased.
I left the con-rods in the pistons and had them ultra-sonic degreased.
Welded and remachined one of the piston wherea ring broke.

It was very easy....really easy because I picked the short block out by my self.

[drof 89]

Whats vapor degreasing the oil pump? I'm an old grease monkey but i never heard of that. Thanks

[jglutz]

Whats vapor degreasing the oil pump? I'm an old grease monkey but i never heard of that. Thanks

It's a process where the parts go thru an heated/ultrasonic tanks that are heated to the vapor point of the solvent...after the last tank the parts are hung just above a tank of boilg solvent and the vapor (steam) cleans the part. Above the part are refreigereation coild that condense and return the solvet to the tanks so nothing evaporates to the atmosphere. These system use Freon, Tri-Chlor, or nPB. I'm forunate....we have this stuff at work.

[drof 89]

That's wild. I learned something in my old age! Thanks

[silver04rs]

if the car is a cali car i doubt they will go over it with a fine toothed comb.

another 1.3 would be a great idea. if you are buying another complete engine hold on i have one with a dead valve that smoked ill GIVE you. out of a 1997 aspire. the price of a head redo is much less than a whole engine. come get it. pm me for number

thanks for the engine!

I still cant believe I picked it up and walked it to my car and just threw it in... too good


Now I just need tyo get teh old one yanked and see what I can make with the two