My Worst NIghtmare
07-09-02, 10:59 PM
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My Worst NIghtmare
well i bought a car with a blown engine back in april. I wanted to do all the work my self so i took the engine out and then striped it to a bare block. I wasnt going to atempt to rebuilt it so i sent it to kds in pa. Well the told me today that my housings are toasted and showed me pics. This sucks. I am thinging about buying a malloy mazda reman engine and then haveing kds do there work on it. What do you think i should do. heres some pics.
07-09-02, 11:19 PM
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Your plan to purchase a Malloy reman engine and have Dave at KDR do the custom work is a course that others have taken and seems like the way to go in your situation.
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07-11-02, 10:38 AM
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looks like that car ran hot, REAL HOT...must have had a woman behind the wheel.... ;-)
that brings up a real tricky coolant warning thing that i learned about down at pettit. a guy had the low coolant light come on, yet the car was not registering hot, but what was happening was that the low level of coolant was boiling, and the steam was registering the temp at the outer limit of the housing, so it really was not leading on to the actual problem. consequentially where the factory reading is taken from, and therefore it was not appearing to be a problem. well, i saw the rotor and intermediate housing that this issue affected, and it was not pretty......just an observation. i had never really seen or heard of that until recently....
from what i hear, your choice of remans and shop will not disappoint you....
that brings up a real tricky coolant warning thing that i learned about down at pettit. a guy had the low coolant light come on, yet the car was not registering hot, but what was happening was that the low level of coolant was boiling, and the steam was registering the temp at the outer limit of the housing, so it really was not leading on to the actual problem. consequentially where the factory reading is taken from, and therefore it was not appearing to be a problem. well, i saw the rotor and intermediate housing that this issue affected, and it was not pretty......just an observation. i had never really seen or heard of that until recently....
from what i hear, your choice of remans and shop will not disappoint you....
07-11-02, 02:50 PM
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Originally posted by mmonaco
well i bought a car with a blown engine back in april. I wanted to do all the work my self so i took the engine out and then striped it to a bare block. I wasnt going to atempt to rebuilt it so i sent it to kds in pa. Well the told me today that my housings are toasted and showed me pics. This sucks. I am thinging about buying a malloy mazda reman engine and then haveing kds do there work on it. What do you think i should do. heres some pics.
well i bought a car with a blown engine back in april. I wanted to do all the work my self so i took the engine out and then striped it to a bare block. I wasnt going to atempt to rebuilt it so i sent it to kds in pa. Well the told me today that my housings are toasted and showed me pics. This sucks. I am thinging about buying a malloy mazda reman engine and then haveing kds do there work on it. What do you think i should do. heres some pics.
I think you should run down to your local Trash Auto and get a few tubes of J-B Weld. That'll fix up that o-ring flange on the housing.
Seriously though, Malloy reman is the choice for me. However, I'm too far from KD so I'm doing it with my trained grease monkey.
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