I'm looking at this old head I received in my knackered and mismatched mess of a motor. It's been rebuilt and never run. The intake valves are new, but not the exhaust valves. They look okay to my inexpert eyes.
But the cam caps are wrong and when torqued, seize the cam. Align boring is not likely an option, given the difficulty of finding a machine shop who can deal with something this size. Someone once mentioned shims, but I would think this is a temporary solution at best (presumably there's no way that the cam would make full contact with the bearing, and I'd get excessive wear and hot spots.
It had some new valve followers I used when I put a new cam in my other motor. Other than that --
I could tear it down and part it out, if there's anything of any value inside it. I doubt it.
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Next, this quite thoroughly screwed pump. This one hurts and I am not happy to tell the story.
After I performed a reseal, I had some trouble with the idle control lever. I don't quite remember the specifics, but I think the o-ring wasn't seating properly. I discovered this only after fitting it back on the motor. I hoped I could fix it without pulling the pump and fiddled with it for quite awhile. I was tired and getting frustrated (after R&Ring my two pumps a bunch of times on account of various problems). Well, finally I get it sorted -- so I thought -- and the motor started. But it was blowing white smoke, running like ***, and making a terrible knocking sound. I shut it down with keen awareness that I was screwed.
When I took it back apart, I saw that he spring for the lever was gone. It had of course fallen into the internals. I thought, maybe -- god help me, maybe -- it was sitting benignly somewhere inside. But of course not: there was 'coffee ground material' everywhere in the pump (what the hell is this? I guess it's a seal that was shredded, but which one?) And worst of all, I then found this:
Well, at this point, it was almost time to get back to Hawaii and store the van (I was hurrying, stupidly, because I wanted to store it at least in running condition.)
This pump came with my second motor and always seemed to run quite well. I grabbed the old pump, which I suspected is quite a bit more worn, and tried running that, with no luck.
I gave up and left, and a few months later found that rebuilt pump that I've been on about in another thread.
So, any suggestions re these two pumps? Should I tear into the other one and perhaps scour it for undamaged parts which can go in the one I broke? I've never done a full pump diss, but I don't have a lot to lose and would probably enjoy it.
The old pump might after all be okay -- but it did some things that worried me: after a long drive on the highway, the van would idle very low, almost to the point of stalling, and I've been told this is a sign of a dying pump. I could just try hooking it up again and seeing if it'll start -- I was in a rush, as I said, and maybe didn't give it a fair chance.
I also could part out the seriously f*cked pump, if anyone needs parts.
I've had these things just sitting around along with a lot of other stuff -- an dissed AAZ block with a melted piston, a bunch of turbos in marginal condition, lots of 1.6 parts, and it's time to fix, consolidate, sell, and junk stuff.