Wicked_Sludge
New Member
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Messages
- 6,937
- Reaction score
- 43
- Points
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- Age
- 38
- Location
- Westport, WA
- Vehicle Year
- 1993
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 3-point-GO
- Transmission
- Manual
yeah, im still alive. as some of you know, i no longer have internet access at my house, so i only get to check TRS when i drag my butt down to the library to steal wifi.
things are still going pretty good. the ranger has been running and driving great since the safeway fuel incident. had some misfortune with the boat trailer not too long ago, my axle snapped. ive since rolled a new axle under it and we're back in business (just waiting on weather now).
unfortunatly, my blue escort has recently run into some unforseen problems. i blew a head gasket (its actually been blown for a while, but it just recently let go and dumped all my coolant into the oil pan), and i have either stuck or broken rings in the 2 middle cylinders (excessive leakdown into the crank). the head work is all done and i just got my rings in today, the cylinder walls look good, so im going to just stick with a good honing of the cylinders and slap the new rings in. some pics of the work so far:
notice how clean the piston in #1 is...thats the cylinder thats been burning coolant...so it stayed quite clean.
mild carbon build up which will be removed after the pistons come out.
lots of room to work after the head and intake is out.
the head fresh from the machine shop. all new valves and valve seals, cam checks out OK, valve seats ground, decked and hot tanked.
oh yeah, its a hemi alright
small crack in one of the coolant passages....lots of meat in the head at this point...so im just going to make sure the cooling system is up to snuff and it should last a while.
hopefully the bottom end comes apart tomorrow and i hope to fire the car up by the end of the week.
and if it breaks again im selling the damn thing
things are still going pretty good. the ranger has been running and driving great since the safeway fuel incident. had some misfortune with the boat trailer not too long ago, my axle snapped. ive since rolled a new axle under it and we're back in business (just waiting on weather now).
unfortunatly, my blue escort has recently run into some unforseen problems. i blew a head gasket (its actually been blown for a while, but it just recently let go and dumped all my coolant into the oil pan), and i have either stuck or broken rings in the 2 middle cylinders (excessive leakdown into the crank). the head work is all done and i just got my rings in today, the cylinder walls look good, so im going to just stick with a good honing of the cylinders and slap the new rings in. some pics of the work so far:
notice how clean the piston in #1 is...thats the cylinder thats been burning coolant...so it stayed quite clean.
mild carbon build up which will be removed after the pistons come out.
lots of room to work after the head and intake is out.
the head fresh from the machine shop. all new valves and valve seals, cam checks out OK, valve seats ground, decked and hot tanked.
oh yeah, its a hemi alright
small crack in one of the coolant passages....lots of meat in the head at this point...so im just going to make sure the cooling system is up to snuff and it should last a while.
hopefully the bottom end comes apart tomorrow and i hope to fire the car up by the end of the week.
and if it breaks again im selling the damn thing