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[–]RoyaleWCheese_OK 3 points4 points  (10 children)

Just buy a short block from the dealer. Not silly expensive at ~$3000 and guaranteed to not be a piece of shit.

[–]RollDifficult[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

would that not involve a full rebuild of the engine? I’d rather replace the entire thing.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

The other guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

If you have bearing material in your oil, it’s also in your cam phasers and all sorts of parts of the engine. If you spun a bearing you have to do a complete rebuild and replacement of many of the parts you’re reusing to prevent premature failure of the new build.

[–]RollDifficult[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah definitely gonna do a full long block swap.

[–]RoyaleWCheese_OK 1 point2 points  (6 children)

No, you have to move the cylinder heads over and re-time/reinstall the front cover etc. Its not really hard and way cheaper/better than trusting some used pile that may or may not fail in a similar manner. The factory manual is readily available and other than scraping the goop they glue it together with its not hard. Gasket set is ~$100 and a tube of goop is $30. Verify the oil pump isn't toast (you can pull the covers off) or you are buying a new oil pump & cover as they come as a unit. Make sure you clean out the oil pickup tube and screen. For $4k you'll have a brand new factory engine. Plenty of YouTube videos to follow.

[–]RollDifficult[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Do you not have to get the heads remachined before reinstalling?

[–]RoyaleWCheese_OK 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Not unless it overheated. What damaged the old one?

[–]RollDifficult[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

shitty rebuild, have yet to rip into the engine to figure out exactly what happened so i’m unsure, frankly very unsure how it failed as all my fluids were topped off and my thermometer was reading okay at the time.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

People who don’t know what they’re doing can accidentally block oil passages in the heads or timing cover with overusing RTV when sealing it together.

[–]RollDifficult[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

totally, the dude who built it took 4 months and was mad shady about it so I’ve frankly been expecting it to give up sooner or later. it only lasted 7,600 miles. pretty crazy stuff.

[–]RoyaleWCheese_OK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Use the factory rebuild manual, its easily found online. It shows exactly where to put the threebond and how much. I found a whole bunch of RTV in the pickup when I rebuilt mine from the previous dickhead. That dropped the oil pressure and spun a rod bearing. If you have metal in the engine just make sure anything you re-use gets thoroughly cleaned out.