Undercoating, brake lines, and rear brakes are all taken care of, and the axle's back in, too!
Gave the trans a little clean and paint, too
Here's something a little more exciting, I started tearing down the 22R engine today. I'm hoping for some advice/opinions from some of you guys who maybe have more engine experience than I do, more on that below.
Starting the teardown
A bunch of stuff, most of which won't be going back on. Don't the power steering.. going to go with a 1 wire alt, etc.
Some ding dong broke a bolt on the water pump. I was worried on about 3 of the bolts, but they came free. Apparently the previous owner wasn't so lucky. 10mm bolts into aluminum are always trouble, galvanic corrosion seems to be a killer. Not the first one I've had to extract.
The valve train looked great, nice and clean.
Then I popped the head off. Two of the bores looked nice
One bore had a weird pattern on it.. I can only assume that some moisture was in that cylinder and it sat for a while with the piston at that point. It's not quite as smooth as the rest of the bore where its stained, but doesn't really catch a fingernail, either. What's the thoughts on something like this, hone and re-ring?
And the final piston had some interesting little dings on the top of it. There's no major scratches or anything in the bore, so it's kind of a mystery as to what the heck happened here. As it stands right now I don't think I'm going to replace it.
However, the bore also has what looks like a wear spot. It's not any rougher to the touch/feel, but is just a slightly different color. Thoughts on that?
Rotating assembly.. nothing seems amiss there.
The oil pan had a bunch of gunk in the bottom. If you've ever dropped the pan on an auto trans car.. that's what it reminded me of. It felt like a thin layer of clutch material gunk. Do we just have some basic sludge here? What in the heck else could that ish be?