stock rebuild
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:58 pm
Looking for direction here...picked up a 93 Legacy wagon last February that was sitting in somebody's yard for about 2 years. It putted to my house with a nice trail of smoke behind it. The guy I bought it from thought the timing belt might have jumped a tooth. It looked like a headgasket problem. I pulled the motor, took the heads off and found one the gaskets to be pretty worn out. The intake manifold and the outside of the motor is really dirty.
I just pulled the oil pan off and the inside of the block looks "ok". There's no debris and pistons turn fine. Right now i'm contemplating just putting it back together and getting it running or doing a complete rebuild. This will be my first motor rebuild so i'm not sure what i'm getting myself into. Since it is my first build, i was thinking i should just do a stock build although i do have heads, manifold and ECU from a 02 bugeye.
Suggestions?
I just pulled the oil pan off and the inside of the block looks "ok". There's no debris and pistons turn fine. Right now i'm contemplating just putting it back together and getting it running or doing a complete rebuild. This will be my first motor rebuild so i'm not sure what i'm getting myself into. Since it is my first build, i was thinking i should just do a stock build although i do have heads, manifold and ECU from a 02 bugeye.
Suggestions?