Sorry to be discouraging... Oil burning sounds more like stuck/burnt rings to me
Not a whole lot of places for oil to get in the combustion chamber with a blown HG on our engine, mainly just cylinder 1....Again, I hope I'm wrong...
Don't fret this whole engine pulling idea. It's really not hard. I was trying to avoid it as well and I really only needed a head. By the time I I was getting ready to just pull the head, I was within an hour of pulling the entire engine--really. With the engine out you can work sans swearing and cussing like a sailor. I bet the add'l aggrevation and time of trying to pull the front cover with the engine in the car will make the whole project harder and longer than if you just pulled the engine to begin with... I'm speaking from experience here...
Don't have an engine puller? 2 ideas: 1) O'Reilly's will rent them for free or 2) get 8 foot 4x4 post and place two strong buddies on eithe side of the car and use them for the puller... Been there, done that
Best,
Phil
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Originally Posted by robains
Really didn't want to pull the engine to do this -- I have an engine stand, but my hoist has long since been sold.
Monsi, I've been warned to stay many many many miles away from Cometic gaskets (from some reliable first hand experienced sources - aka Speed World Challenge Touring car connections).
Phil, you have me confused, you're suggesting that you don't think this is just a head gasket problem? Like I said, I was able to put a scope into the cylinders and didn't see any obvious damage, also, I was able to actually drive the car home (very SLOWLY and it sounded like an STi) and I don't think I could do this if the damage was more serious??
But I do agree, seems strange that only oil is in the cylinders and not water. Every head gasket failure I've seen in the past was almost always water related. But the world challenge mechanics I talked to have actually seen oil only HG failures -- pretty rare, but possible.
Just ordered the ARPs and head gasket -- I figure I need those regardless of what it turns out to be.
Sounds like a long slow painful process -- was hoping NOT to have to remove the motor.
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