Ricearu Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I am going to reseal my engine soon and would like to know if anyone knows a good source for valve lash adjusters (lifters). My TOD comes and goes, every time it comes, I lose oil pressure so I guess the bad lifter is blowing by a crapload of oil back to the head or something. Any help will be appreciated. I would like to make the old girl "new" again before I move 15 miles further from my job than I am now. Also, If someone knows a good cheap source for water and oil pumps too would be greatly appreciated. I am going the whole nine yards to do this correctly, meaning machining the heads, replacing all these old worn out repair parts If you think there is something else that needs to be replaced with this "fixerup" chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 mizpah engineering. $3clean yours or $7 rebuilt, something like that. i personally hate doing more work than i have too - so if yo'ure not positive it's a HLA then just replace the oil pump and see what happens. removing the timing belts is easy any way. oil pump is far more likely usually. i haven't heard any HLA related TOD "come and go" - they've always been bad and always made noise or not. sounds like oil pump seal related to me. a new pump will likely seal the new gaskets/seals just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricearu Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 I have a spare set of heads complete. So I think I am gonna send out the HLA's to that place for a rebuild just in case, My driver side hg is blown. been blown for about 5 months. I also am going to send my spare heads out for machine/clean/inspect, before hand so this can be a 1 or 2 day affair. So I want to get all this crap squared away while I have the dang thing put down. Tired of the cam seals leaking, tick tick tick, and adding water daily and worrying about overheats. I would rather just get it done not to mention, my commute is 31 miles now, but I am moving to a place where my commute will be more like 45 miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricearu Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 anyone else got any suggestions on this matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 It's been overheating for 5 months? The one car that I had that was run with bad head gaskets for a while (my own) had some engine block damage from running it like that. Car ran perfect and just had a slow leak. When I took it apart, the block had wear, a notch of metal warn away, where the coolant leak was. I guess prolonged driving it like that caused it. It did look repairable, but I would keep an eye where the leak is and make sure the block looks good there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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