Well with gas prices getting higher and higher I decided to fully rebuild the engine in my 1990 nissan stanza..if you've seen the previous post you know what the problem is. I checked around some salvage yard and the best price I could find for an engine was $350 for the bare engine (no alternator, starter, etc) with 173k on it.....I checked around and with machine work for a grand total of $500 I will have the engine fully rebuilt, and as usual I don't like to half ass my work. So here is my pics and progress of what I have done in the past month.
This is pics of the car when I first got it.
These are pics of me tearing the head off, I was hoping it was just a blown headgasket was the problem,,,but nope
The car all jacked up and ready to be worked on.
Valve cover tore off, not to bad looking under there, besides a little water. Tore the heat shield off too.
Close view of the engine with the valve cover off.
Took the distributor off, the cap was shot, but they are cheap and I wouldn't reuse it, that would be like reusing a condom.
Exhaust manifold taken off, really easy to do, the one emission pipe wouldn't budge, even with heat on it, so I too the easy way out and cut it.
Hmm, time to take the alternator out.
Valve cover all nicely sandblasted clean, what an improvement!
Alternator taken off.
More brackets to take off.
Crankshaft pulley taken off.
Nice mess huh?
Head off and timing chain cover off.
Cylinders, look at the small chunks missing it in. Probably can't rebore it...
Valve cover painted.
Pulleys painted.
Exhaust manifold painted
Valve cover finished
Head all cleaned.
The block being stripped
tore the block down..crank is good....pics show the rest of the story
This is my intake, kinda a nightmare of vacuum and cooling hoses but I should be able to clean it up.
This is the top plenum I removed, might as well do the engine right the first time.
This is the lower plenum, doesn't it look so much more spiffy after it has been bead blasted?
This is the tranny I pulled a few weeks ago...gotta split it open to replace the damn filter, also I need to do the cv joint and front seal in it.
Here are the heater/vacuum hoses i'm painting
Here's my timing chain cover I just sandblasted and had welded.
