AWDfrank
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 1, 2005
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Bakersfield,
California
Before I write anything this is my cousin who is having these problems not me so I don't have all the details. I also didn't help work on the car, i'm just posting this for him.
2 years ago the car was bought by my cousin's friend with the head in the trunk having been told the timing belt snapped. An old lady owned it and since the repairs were to much they she never fixed it.
The friend had the head rebuilt, resurfaced, everything that is needed and put it back on, started fine. 10 minutes later there was a lot of chaterring, bent the valves.
Rebuilt the same head put it back together and the same thing happened.
I know what your thinking, obviously something is wrong so dont do the same thing but they did.
He then sold the car to my cousin who rebuilt the SAME head and he put a new gead gasket on resufaced it...upped the boost to 13 psi and the head gasket blew on him!
He then took took the head off put a new gasket on bled the lifters and did everything right (he thinks). After driving for 2 days he parked the car for 5 hours, started the car up and the loud chattering was back...the valves bent again
He told me the whole story and it turns out that he had figured since his friend had changed the timing belt he naturally changed all the timing components...wrong. Besides the timing belt all the other timing parts were stil on it for who know how many thousands of miles before the lady had the belt break.
A completely NEW head is going on now, and I advised against it but he is using an ebay timing kit (which they said is the same for 6 blot and 7 bolt?)
Do you guys think the same thing will happen again?
Do you think the timing jumped on it?
What other parts could cause the head to mess up 4 times, the same head itself?
I know thats a lot but its like a 2 year ordeal...btw I know they obviously should of done something different after 4 times
.
2 years ago the car was bought by my cousin's friend with the head in the trunk having been told the timing belt snapped. An old lady owned it and since the repairs were to much they she never fixed it.
The friend had the head rebuilt, resurfaced, everything that is needed and put it back on, started fine. 10 minutes later there was a lot of chaterring, bent the valves.
Rebuilt the same head put it back together and the same thing happened.
I know what your thinking, obviously something is wrong so dont do the same thing but they did.
He then sold the car to my cousin who rebuilt the SAME head and he put a new gead gasket on resufaced it...upped the boost to 13 psi and the head gasket blew on him!
He then took took the head off put a new gasket on bled the lifters and did everything right (he thinks). After driving for 2 days he parked the car for 5 hours, started the car up and the loud chattering was back...the valves bent again
He told me the whole story and it turns out that he had figured since his friend had changed the timing belt he naturally changed all the timing components...wrong. Besides the timing belt all the other timing parts were stil on it for who know how many thousands of miles before the lady had the belt break.
A completely NEW head is going on now, and I advised against it but he is using an ebay timing kit (which they said is the same for 6 blot and 7 bolt?)
Do you guys think the same thing will happen again?
Do you think the timing jumped on it?
What other parts could cause the head to mess up 4 times, the same head itself?
I know thats a lot but its like a 2 year ordeal...btw I know they obviously should of done something different after 4 times
.
