SW17LS

I actually laughed out loud at this lol

Striker223

I'm glad! The actual OE on the side wall is no joke, Ling Long tire INC......

Its getting Pirellis, I'm thinking I want the 80k mile warrant "eco focused" version they offer for all season use. Reviews claim they are quiet and don't have much issues

SW17LS

The mark of quality lol

Striker223

The very best! I think the saying goes "if crosswind blow you go off road" for this fine model of tire excellence lol!

Im getting these for it, should be adequate for it I hope. I'm not targeting handling etc, just low cost of operation as that's my "performance" goal.

https://www.pirelli.com/tires/en-us/car/catalog/product/p4-persist-as-plus

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires...i&autoModClar=

So yeah, also on sale right now so it works out well. I usually try and pick the right tire for a given job and this cars job is MPG

SW17LS

Those tires should be good....

Striker223

Great news, the dead miss on cyl 3 was simply a fuel air lock issue. I did a bleed of everything and it's all fine again, now I will be proceeding to repair the glow plug harness and lift needle sensor.......once running totally correctly it will be driven to the shop so I can get all it's new parts installed on the lift for my sanity vs working on it at home.

jwong77

But what will you do with those high end tires?

Striker223

I mean I could equip them for the meme and see how long it takes me to die with the snow everywhere lol!

GS3Tek

iTrader: (8)

I thought of this dumpling when I read that ling long tire...

Striker223

Quick fix, but it worked

Glows and lift sensor are working again

Easy enough

Got the small areas cleaned finally, ended up also doing a quick paint correction with some minor paint pen work and then a compound/sealant pass.

Continued on with my repairs and found impending death in the oil filter....



Well that's not good.

Some idiot used a lot of RTV and the pickup was 1/3 blocked......I was pulling the pan at this point to inspect a suspected dead rod bearing due to a noise under load. Also at this point I STILL have a cyl 3 miss even though I fixed the lift sensor and confirmed fuel flow

Well that's bad. The freaking crank reluctor wheel is broken, at this point I was starting to realize I was dealing with a serious issue. I found a larger section of metal in the pan of about 7/8 inch by 1/4 inch with no clear indication of origin

Well this is not great, upper shells are worn to the 2nd layer and lowers are also shot. Not to the point of rod knock like I had hoped it to be but on the plus side the crank journals are perfect.

Once I saw the bearings were not the source of the issue I decided to pull the valve cover and it was at this point I realized there was massive damage.

Can lobe dead/mostly dead


The collection of bits, turns out it was a valve lifter

And the actual issue at last. Head is unrepairable, the infuriating part is the cam journals are all perfect as are the cam surfaces so it's not even an oiling failure. The lifter just apparently died. Thankfully it didn't drop the valve so I think it will be an easier fix, I'm sourcing a replacement head now and it should be good to go once that's swapped out.

jwong77

Holy cow, somebody really really liked RTV haha.

Margate330

Do you suspect the owner knew something was off by the way the car was running and that's why it was put up for sale?

​​​​​​You really know your stuff friend, I'll give you that.

Those tear down pics look very intimidating to me, I'd never attempt something like that. Lol

For sure the car would never run again. Lol

Striker223

They knew something was wrong, price was negotiated low enough it would cover this type of situation but I was really hoping to get away with not needing to deal with this.

My main concern now is that all 4 rods are slightly bent, the beating wear is all biased to one half of the upper shells and that's normally warning that the rods have been tweaked. When the head is off I'll need to measure projection and uniformity, with my luck they are all bent lol!

That being the case it will end up being a full build in the 250hp/450tq range

Striker223

I found a full dropout with nothing harness/hoses cut anywhere locally for $700, has 132k miles and is fully complete. I'll be putting this in the car and using my original block to build a mean little engine!