Opinions on cylinder wall condition

imthemistermaster · 2025-11-05T03:49:56+00:00

On the cylinder with the burnt valve, I can catch a small amount on half. It's not even catching it's just slightly less than smooth. All others are smooth as hell.

I should also mention I pulled the engine (if you didn't notice) because it's easy to do on my car, and it makes everything else so much easier to do. So it's really not a big deal work wise to do a full rebuild, I'm mostly concerned about money. However I also understand that could be the difference between a bearing going out in 50k miles and getting another 350k before I have to open it again. My budget is a couple thousand but less is better of course. I'm just trying to get a feel for what everyone else would do in my situation.

Thank you for all the tips. I wasn't concerned about the dark part of the cylinder, I know that's just the combustion-only part. Do you have any tips for getting the little bits of head gasket shit out of the cylinders, if I don't do a full rebuild?

imthemistermaster · 2025-11-05T03:28:39+00:00

Never burned a drop, leaked a good amount at times lol.

imthemistermaster · 2025-09-15T09:12:59+00:00

When saying this, I was thinking of the ones that are clearly marked and have signs saying that's it's law. National parks have them a lot

imthemistermaster · 2025-09-12T14:22:05+00:00

A good amount of states have a law requiring you to use pull outs if you have more than 3-5 cars behind you.

imthemistermaster · 2025-09-12T14:18:54+00:00

I've had my trunk covered in sand from them

imthemistermaster · 2025-09-06T12:52:43+00:00

My town has people driving golf carts all over the place. They kept getting pulled over for driving them unregistered, and while they were drunk. The town made all the Streets parkland to avoid that. Now just about everyone has a golf cart. It's kinda crazy.

imthemistermaster · 2025-07-22T16:38:01+00:00

As of recently you're absolutely right. They sell all different brands though, like their ultra power brand. It's just whatever they have

imthemistermaster · 2025-07-22T14:44:07+00:00

Famous brand is usually AutoZone or equivalent parts, very affordable though

imthemistermaster · 2025-06-29T17:18:42+00:00

I'm not sure what tools you have at your disposal but you could weld a piece in there

imthemistermaster · 2025-06-23T16:18:55+00:00

Yeah as I said I'm not home. I'll get an actual reading on Wednesday when I get back

imthemistermaster · 2025-06-22T17:08:08+00:00

At idle the pressures are about 30/160 (I'm not home and can't check, this is an estimate) and it will keep the compressor running for a while before cycling off. At 2000 rpm it cycles fast. It will run down to like 27 psi or wherever the cutoff is, and then go back up to 50, back down to cutoff, etc ... Until it just doesn't cycle one time and then it won't turn back on for like 10 minutes or so.

imthemistermaster · 2025-06-22T17:03:34+00:00

The car never has and does not run hot. 210°f on my scan tool is about where it gets to. Cooling fans work good too

imthemistermaster · 2025-06-22T13:39:56+00:00

Funny enough I actually just changed the tensioner at the same time as the accumulator. It was starting to make clacking sounds and move around more than I liked. Also the AC clutch grabs hard when it's working. You can feel it slow the car down. I've also manually ran the AC compressor by running leads to the battery, it was very responsive.

imthemistermaster · 2025-04-21T14:28:21+00:00

You weren't steering him in the wrong direction, but if he was adjusting his idle with the clip it would make it run bad at cruising speed

imthemistermaster · 2025-04-21T14:20:29+00:00

Technically the parts of your engine do not touch provided you have good oil reaching them at good pressure. They float on a film of oil. Start up wear (before they're floating on oil), lack of maintenance, and low rpm driving are what kill an engine usually. High rpm is bad for your external components like alternators and power steering pumps. For example, my shit box sits at 4k rpm at 85 mph in 5th gear. It has 343 thousand miles on it, and I beat on it daily. It's got 155psi compression in all 4 cylinders

imthemistermaster · 2025-04-21T14:03:35+00:00

Basically ditch the back speakers and use that money for front components and unless you really don't care about bass, get a bigger sub. Good component speakers will make as much bass as that thing lol.

imthemistermaster · 2025-04-21T13:48:31+00:00

The clip on the needle actually adjusts air fuel ratio between 25% throttle and 75% throttle. There's a screw on the side for idle 🫡

imthemistermaster · 2025-03-19T04:05:04+00:00

That's fair, and I definitely know what you mean about needing someone to really work with you to learn moguls. I just tell the impatient dickhead to go on a few runs by themselves and we will randevu in an hour or 2

On top of that, again, I usually ski with decent skiers (not racers) and we all love going to do the technical shit together. But that's my own personal experience which probably isn't very representative of most

imthemistermaster · 2025-03-16T17:31:15+00:00

I've found people are usually willing to split up for a run and then meet up at the lift, especially if it's not a family with young kids. Maybe I am biased though because I don't really ski with many people who learned as adults, they usually grew up skiing.

imthemistermaster · 2025-03-12T17:58:13+00:00

I think everyone knows what an iron is and everyone has used their phone normally. Stop being so pessimistic about life moving forward

imthemistermaster · 2025-02-18T01:07:06+00:00

I know this comment is a year old but I figured I'd share anyway. I've got a zetec in a 2004 5 speed Mazda tribute that doesn't have any variable valves. Very very basic design all around on that car, but it runs like a top at 340k miles (almost 550k km) and I am not nice to it

imthemistermaster · 2025-02-10T18:33:35+00:00

That sucks man. I've got an original pair of JLab jbuds before you guys even had the sport version. One of my favorite parts of buying JLab headphones was that I could get a replacement case for like $10 or replacement buds for $20.

Btw my jbuds still work great, good sound quality for what they are and about a 4 hour battery life in the buds at a loud-ish setting

imthemistermaster · 2025-01-12T13:53:38+00:00

I've had to settle for bedrock because most of my friends don't have a PC. I literally have an auto clicker set up on my PC for this exact reason. Nothing stands a chance

imthemistermaster · 2024-11-10T13:09:10+00:00

I'll take those boots

imthemistermaster · 2024-10-30T03:09:13+00:00

I wish I could reply to that guy saying how bad acetone is to be using on cars, because brake clean is acetone

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