Back to 4 cylinders -- yippie

[zyewdall]

My '89 wagon is back to 4 cylinders -- I installed the new engine today. :banana: After driving it around this morning, on 3 cylinders, and with the new engine in the back, it sure feels fast running on all 4. About 10 hours for the whole swap (including swapping the almost new timing belt from the old engine to the new one). I still have to do a little finish up stuff -- put the second belt on for the A/C, change the cap and rotor (Both engines had pretty burnt ones), and fix an exhaust stud. But, it's back up and running like it used to, and I was able to drive home from the workshop. And, I want to take apart the passenger head on the old engine and see what went wrong -- it acts like a burned exhaust valve on the front cylinder.

 

I didn't replace the clutch.... Napa sold me the wrong one, and by the time I realized it, I had it all apart and couldn't drive to get the right one -- and they probably didn't have it anyway -- they had to order the wrong one for me. The old disc didn't look too worn, so hopefully it'll have some life left on it. I think it's got 120k on it which seems like alot.