Confused ( Motor buy/repair question )

[lyfeworx976]

This might sound dumb, I have no compression in 3 cyl, and some in the last 1. I know the car has a timing belt accident, but I do not know the history of the car, it was bought from a auction with a clean title.

The people that worked on the car, put a new timing belt on, but i guess must have noticed the head was bad, and stopped all work. The note said it was taken to be auction because the lady would not pay the shop lien.

So here is the question, what would you do? You know the head is bad, the mechanic quoted you 1100 with labor, tax, everything to get the head fully redone, and so on.

Would you buy another motor, and pay the $500 to put it in? Or would you go try to fix the head, and hope the bottem end is fine? I just want a few opinions on this, im not new to DSMS, this is my first 1g though. The car has 143k miles on it.

Im just looking for a few helpful ideas, I know you guys ddon't really know the condition of the car, but right now as it stands, it has a bunch of bent valves, and the head is bad..

Any help is great.

-Michael

 

[pneumo]

Valves get bent when the pistons smack into them. You'll need at least one new piston. At that point you're doing a full rebuild anyway, so I'd just buy a remanufactured engine and have it put in. Less hassle, less downtime.

 

[TRBOTSI]

You MIGHT have a damaged piston but you could get lucky and just have some bent valves. It only costs a few hundreds dollars to get the head rebuilt and then you can installit yourself or with the help of some local dsmers and be on your way. AT thesame time do a T-belt job so you know it's done right. Shouldn't cost you more than $600 for the whole job, assuming your pistons survived. If you did banjax a pston, buy a junkyard motor and put the rebuilt head on that

 

[lyfeworx976]

anyone recommend companys?