Day 2:
Had a little caffeine left in me after I got home from work today. So I decided to be froggy and hop to the rod removal and attempt to take out the crank.
Had a good amount of trouble removing the first rod end cap, I got the bolts off fine, but it seems they're wedged in there pretty good. Spent about 30 mins trying to think of a way to do this, I noticed someone else had the same trouble, as there are what apears to be screw driver marks on the end cap of #2 rod.
Finally I get an idea, tap the piston out!!
Dumbass. This worked wonderfuly. I decided to name the pistons from top to bottom, which in this case is Crank pulley to flywheel. 1-4.
Piston #3 removed. Bearings in both #2 and #3 are SHOT, both looked starved of oil... luckily no damage to the crank, smooth to the fingernail test... still gonna get a micropollish tho.
#2 oddly, had a small scratch on the endcap. So I may need a new rod if this can't be pollished out by the machine shop.
I have cleaned the pistons and marked them accordingly, and made sure to keep the endcaps together, as I made the mistake of mixing these up when I tore apart a previous motor.
#4 piston now removed... Dear GOD the bearing is horrible... it looks as it it's melted and formed to the rod/crank spacing...
#4 crank journal is fucked.... scored pretty good. I don't think this can be polllished out, but tomorrow when I drop the crank off, I'll see what they can do, I really don't want them to cut the crank, so I'll have to wait if they say this. The oil passage on the bearings were almost completly closed up. Wild. This is telling me a lot about this motor... probably, the previous owner just ran it so low on oil for such a long time. Pistons look a little beaten on. End cap on #4 also scored pretty well... Sigh. May need a new rod too. Great...
I assumed things would not get much worse, and still I hadn't found the bearing that was knocking!!
As I removed piston #1, the bearings fall out in 4 pieces!! Aha! Alas, crank is scored again, rod seems ok though, so that's a partial relief. I took out the rear main seal thinggy, oil pissed out a bit, looks like some kind of liquid gasket was used here. Weird.
I still couldn't get the crank gear thinggy out!!! Damn this pisses me off, Im agervated and tired... if anyone has an idea on how to remove this gear let me know.
Thanks all, pics will follow tomorrow, or the day after.
- Cronic