WallaceGlanza
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Hello!
I've finally got round to stripping the original engine from my glanza which went pop back in 2008! I suspected it to be the head gasket at the time but due to me being pissed off with too many problems on that engine I chucked a new one in the car instead and the old engine was left in the garage under a table.
So with the other engine now dying too one of them needs rebuilt, I've stripped the original down and found it is indeed the head gasket which had blown:
My plan is to get this engine back in the car and running asap so all I want to do is change the bare minimum ie just the head gasket, however there are a couple of wee issues I've noticed.
Firstly there is some strange pitting on piston 2 and the head in the same mating area:
What would cause this? Something rattling about the cylinder?
A little more concerning to me is what appears to be corrosion in the bores of cyl 1 and 4:
You can feel this with your nail and it also seems to cause a bit of resistance when turning the engine by hand, I've not tried smoothing it with anything other than a rag. Is this a problem? I assume this is from the engine having sat for years without oil but generally the engine seems in good nick otherwise.
Finally I found this lovely snotter of what appears to be either a weld or excess casting blocking one of the water channels which can't have helped the cooling:
Any advice is appreciated, cheers.
I've finally got round to stripping the original engine from my glanza which went pop back in 2008! I suspected it to be the head gasket at the time but due to me being pissed off with too many problems on that engine I chucked a new one in the car instead and the old engine was left in the garage under a table.
So with the other engine now dying too one of them needs rebuilt, I've stripped the original down and found it is indeed the head gasket which had blown:
My plan is to get this engine back in the car and running asap so all I want to do is change the bare minimum ie just the head gasket, however there are a couple of wee issues I've noticed.
Firstly there is some strange pitting on piston 2 and the head in the same mating area:
What would cause this? Something rattling about the cylinder?
A little more concerning to me is what appears to be corrosion in the bores of cyl 1 and 4:
You can feel this with your nail and it also seems to cause a bit of resistance when turning the engine by hand, I've not tried smoothing it with anything other than a rag. Is this a problem? I assume this is from the engine having sat for years without oil but generally the engine seems in good nick otherwise.
Finally I found this lovely snotter of what appears to be either a weld or excess casting blocking one of the water channels which can't have helped the cooling:
Any advice is appreciated, cheers.