TimF
10+ Year Contributor
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- Mar 14, 2011
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Aurora,
Illinois
Let me start off by saying the car has sat since about 2008
I bought it a few months back after the PO let it sit for over a decade, essentially he throw a bunch of aftermarket parts (cams, injectors, intake mani turbo ect) and never got it to run right, so he claims. On top of that there was some splicing into the harness as well as parts being chewed by rodents over the time it's sat. I tore all aftermarket parts off and slowly been resourcing stock ones again in hopes of getting it running again. I did timing a few week's back, set everyhing , went to crank the motor to double check , and it only will rotate forward and back a tooth or two (on the crank) and just binds. I confirmed the #1 piston is at tdc, took ok the belt to try and crank it w/o cams and still the same thing. Another thing I did was let oil soak in the cyl in hope that it may losen up any corrosion, still no luck.
So my question is what else could be causing the motor to bind? Just large amount of corrosion on the walls?
Also thinking the motor was damaged in some way internally as well, all though oil was clean and head looked great.
I bought it a few months back after the PO let it sit for over a decade, essentially he throw a bunch of aftermarket parts (cams, injectors, intake mani turbo ect) and never got it to run right, so he claims. On top of that there was some splicing into the harness as well as parts being chewed by rodents over the time it's sat. I tore all aftermarket parts off and slowly been resourcing stock ones again in hopes of getting it running again. I did timing a few week's back, set everyhing , went to crank the motor to double check , and it only will rotate forward and back a tooth or two (on the crank) and just binds. I confirmed the #1 piston is at tdc, took ok the belt to try and crank it w/o cams and still the same thing. Another thing I did was let oil soak in the cyl in hope that it may losen up any corrosion, still no luck.
So my question is what else could be causing the motor to bind? Just large amount of corrosion on the walls?
Also thinking the motor was damaged in some way internally as well, all though oil was clean and head looked great.