Engine rebuild or replacement?
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Engine rebuild or replacement?
Three days after getting my truck legal to drive on the road, I managed to water-lock it. I was offroading and water got in the air intake, I've pulled the spark plugs and tried to turn the crankshaft...wouldn't budge. So I'm pretty sure I've bent some, if not all, of the push rods. My question is should I rebuild what was a great engine, or just find a cheap replacement and be glad to get it back on the road.
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Do you mean bent connecting rods? If you did hydro lock it and bent connecting rods I would go junk yard, not a big fan of remans most seem to be done pretty cheaply. Heck if you messed her up real bad you might be better off going to the junk yard to find an engine to rebuild.
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Find a good J-yard motor and swap out, get your rig back on the road. Take your old motor, buy a engine stand and start tearing it down and rebuilding it at your leisure. Throw in a nice cam, lifters rods and pistons........When your done even, if its 2 years later, you KNOW you will have a good engine to swap back at the first hint of trouble from the J-yard motor.
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+2.. swap in a used motor and then tear down yours. If the motor was reving when it locked it probably did some serious damage, you'll be lucky to salvage the block.
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Do you mean bent connecting rods? If you did hydro lock it and bent connecting rods I would go junk yard, not a big fan of remans most seem to be done pretty cheaply. Heck if you messed her up real bad you might be better off going to the junk yard to find an engine to rebuild.
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I have a reman Jasper engine in my '88 that is ***** to the walls better than the OE motor. It was done in 1996 and has 100k on her. I figure she's just broke in.
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I think I'm gonna do what old93junk said and just get it on the road and try to rebuild the current engine. I'm not sure if I've done any damage to the block, I reckon I'll find out when I get it torn down.
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I have known a couple of guys, myself included who have gone this route. I ran my J-yard 351w for 50,000 miles in my 95 F-250 before switching back to the old motor that I had rebuilt and sat on the stand for 2 1/2 years after completion. My Buddy ran a J-yard 302 for 6 months before finishing his 302, then resold the good J-yard motor for $350.00!.
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Thanks for the input, I'll probably be back on here with questions on doing the engine swap and the rebuild. For now its gonna be a bit before I can afford another motor and the truck has $50 worth of gas sitting in it (filled it up right before I broke it), anyone know a good gas preserver or should I just syphon it into my other truck.
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I base my opinion on what I have seen out of the reman motors we sold when I worked for an auto parts store and what a few friends have used. We didn't sell Jaspers, we sold Recons and they were junk also dealt with some Marshalls better than the Recons but don't last any where in the 100K range. A coworker of mine bought one from O'Reilly's and went through three under warranty before he got one that lasted more than a day, then he sold the truck because he was tire of swapping motors. This was a 4.0L in a 98 or 99 Mazda (what ever is the same as a Ranger B4000 or something). I have never personally bought a reman because of what I have seen. The only one I know that is a good engine is a Jasper 350 in a 89 K1500 that has about 40,000 on it and its still going good.
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I base my opinion on what I have seen out of the reman motors we sold when I worked for an auto parts store and what a few friends have used. We didn't sell Jaspers, we sold Recons and they were junk also dealt with some Marshalls better than the Recons but don't last any where in the 100K range. A coworker of mine bought one from O'Reilly's and went through three under warranty before he got one that lasted more than a day, then he sold the truck because he was tire of swapping motors. This was a 4.0L in a 98 or 99 Mazda (what ever is the same as a Ranger B4000 or something). I have never personally bought a reman because of what I have seen. The only one I know that is a good engine is a Jasper 350 in a 89 K1500 that has about 40,000 on it and its still going good.
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I don't like reman engines because you don't get to see the core before the the reman process and if you did, you would probably run away.
I went to my local M shop and saw some of the cores sitting out in the open. Let's just say......
I went to my local M shop and saw some of the cores sitting out in the open. Let's just say......