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I greatly appreciate that.Man, I checked this build thread at a low apparently. Everyone makes mistakes. Learning from them is key though. If you only tried to start it I would imagine that the pistons are fine
Hopefully it’s just a bent valve or two. Can’t say I ever hoped for bent valves but once again if the motor wasn’t running a simple valve replacement with some lapping compound would get you going again.
I’ve been in situations before with life where I think about what to do and with a family now myself you always need to consider that. For me anymore it’s not just the money it’s the time to find for myself yet balancing time with them.
Good luck brother, Daniel
Yeah it looks valves are bent. The pistons are probably fine as long as if you didn't drop the valve head into combustion chamber, but I would be worried for damage on the rocker arms, lifters, cams and head cam journals. (You don't probably need to be worried much about those if the engine speed was low when it happened.) Let's hope nothing more than bent valves.
You can see rocker arms/lifters height are different even in the same cylinder number (Or you can see some rocker arms are rattling), which mean valves are bent and lifters are bled down. So I guess you would need a full set with both side intake/exhaust. But anyways first you have to physically inspect everything to know what exactly you would need to repair.
I guess nothing is wrong with those. I have even used a couple of cheaper eBay valve sets like in the link below. Actually I didn't see any issues. They worked just fine as it should.
You mean the one looks like half open? If so, yes that's supposed to be there. That's one of oil drain from the head to oil pan. It's just the casting flash on the head is still there, you can clean it up when you remove the head.
I see thank you. So I'm down to just removing from the thermostat housing and the head will lift. Decided not to finish up tonight don't want to take a coolant bath before bed.
They are 100% oem. The only valvetrain mod is bc cams.
So all the broken exhaust valve heads were in the combustion chamber or you broke them to removed the valves? The timing was completely wrong and the valves and the pistons crush much harder than I imagined. For sure the valve guides would need to be replaced. If you can source a good condition used head with valves from a junk yard or a partout car may be cheaper.
Yeah I even had a much worse case. If the valves would contact the pistons at much higher engine speed, the damage would be much much worse. You can even crack the head.
U know Hiroshi you're right. Maybe I should just get a different head, never considered it.
Oh jeez, Its always something. Did you try rix?
