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...pretty sad that I'm learning to do this stuff at 53.
For me the hardest part about the entire thing was the stupid oil pan. First it took me forever to get the darn thing popped off then the new gasket just would not stay put when trying to put the pan back. I ended up putting the old gasket back in because it layed in the pan nice and stayed put. I'm real surprised its not leaking (yet).
Anyway, the entire purpose of the tear down was to change the piston rings (because of my low compression) and hopefully bring my poor engine back to life. Never know what ya have til ya tear the thing apart though. The tear down went real smooth thanks to Dale Wilson's post on the step to step way to do this, which I used.
When I finally got the pistons out and could see all of the cylinder walls I knew my engine is toast. The cylinders all have score marks in them some pretty deep, the pistons are pretty chewed up at the tops of them as you can see in the one photo. I checked the ring gap after honing the cylinders and it was .020, its supposed to be .006-.012. Nice. A couple of my top rod bearings were scored.
I just decided to put new rings in and slap everything back together and drive it tell she dies. Its my daily driver so I needed it back up and running.
I made a video of my tear down so I had a reference of where all the wires and everything went back. It helped. If any first timers are going to try this I could send you the video to help out if ya want.
For me the hardest part about the entire thing was the stupid oil pan. First it took me forever to get the darn thing popped off then the new gasket just would not stay put when trying to put the pan back. I ended up putting the old gasket back in because it layed in the pan nice and stayed put. I'm real surprised its not leaking (yet).
Anyway, the entire purpose of the tear down was to change the piston rings (because of my low compression) and hopefully bring my poor engine back to life. Never know what ya have til ya tear the thing apart though. The tear down went real smooth thanks to Dale Wilson's post on the step to step way to do this, which I used.
When I finally got the pistons out and could see all of the cylinder walls I knew my engine is toast. The cylinders all have score marks in them some pretty deep, the pistons are pretty chewed up at the tops of them as you can see in the one photo. I checked the ring gap after honing the cylinders and it was .020, its supposed to be .006-.012. Nice. A couple of my top rod bearings were scored.
I just decided to put new rings in and slap everything back together and drive it tell she dies. Its my daily driver so I needed it back up and running.
I made a video of my tear down so I had a reference of where all the wires and everything went back. It helped. If any first timers are going to try this I could send you the video to help out if ya want.
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