I just bought a 92 Festiva and its only running on 3 of the 4, I think I have a bad valve in the head. How do I tell what motor I have and what head will fit on this motor? It smokes badly when started and has no power when it’s running killing the plug in 2 or 3 days.
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If the engine is OEM then you have the only engine which was available to U.S. buyers; the 1.3 L.
If a swap has been performed, a pic would help us determine what engine you have.'93 Blue 5spd 230K(down for clutch and overall maintanence)
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It is a auto with 170000 on it, had a oil burner on the sparkplug in the last hole ( driver side) and it was not firing, I took the burner off and the plug started to fire some until it fouled out. Now it will not fire at all. It idles badly and when I put it in gear it will cut off if I don’t keep my foot on the gas. It is also getting poor gas mileage. Going thou 1 or 2 quarts of oil a week, and smokes when I start it up.
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If the exhaust valve is leaking you should see an accumulation of soot on the underside of the valve cover above the valve. An inexpensvie vaccum guage and a compression guage would help isloate the problem.Original owner of silver grey carburetted 1989 Festiva. 105k km as of June 2006. 140k km as of June 2021.
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Originally posted by perucho View PostI would swap the whole engine. Sounds like you have more problems than just a leaking valve and don't think that just swapping the head will fix it.
Ran, took it out and installed a BP.
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Thats very cool of you Dean! Oh and congrats on the big 1k!Search Master - Honorary Member of Midwest Festiva Inc., Gulf Coast Chapter
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