dudeX
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- Jun 14, 2011
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Surprise,
Arizona
I'm about to throw in the towel. I have a 98 gst that I am installing a 6 bolt block/ 2g head into. I did the timing outside the car and everything spun perfectly. Today after having the motor and trans installed I began to fill with coolant as a last step prior to attempting startup and I got a leak from the water pump weep hole. I proceeded to get a new pump and replace it which drove removal and rigging of the timing belt components. I got everything lined up (everything had stayed aligned since last belt install on stand)and went to rotate the crank the 6 times to check tensioner gap and after maybe rotating 15 degrees it hits something. I did this very gently as I'm paranoid about these things. Spark plugs were removed and proper timing all around. What doesnt make sense is that with cylinders 1 and 4 at tdc the crank freely rotates telling me valves are not the issue but plus or minus 15 degrees from tdc the crank stops rotating and I feel it contact something solid. I thought maybe it was a bad starter not disengaging so I removed it, no luck there. Had my wife hold down the clutch to see if that was the issue, no joy. Obviously the trans is in neutral. The trans came out of another 98 gst spyder that was supposedly a 2 4l build. I'm using the same clutch that came with that trans, it's part number saying MB010 which looks like an ACT pressure plate which to my knowledge all year DSM clutches are compatible. The only new item in that mix is a 6 bolt front wheel drive flywheel. As it is a 2g fwd trans and I'm using a 6 bolt block my research showed I needed the 6 bolt fwd flywheel to make this all work. Anyways, somewhere in this madness there must be a solution. This car has been beating me up over the last week and the idea of pulling the motor again when I'm so close to having it done kills me. Any help would be appreciated. I'm actively sitting in my garage trying to figure this out, wish me luck or better yet tell me where to go. Thanks.
I will also add that I never rotated the crank with the trans installed to the block before installingthe motor in the car so I have no info about that being a possibility, typing that out makes me feel dumb.
I will also add that I never rotated the crank with the trans installed to the block before installingthe motor in the car so I have no info about that being a possibility, typing that out makes me feel dumb.
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