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Time for some Motor Love
rallybill:
All right. Heading into the cold months so time to start asking the questions for a recommendation of a source to give my TII some engine love. Who wants to shout out a recommended shop or trusted craftsman. Unfortunately, I do not have the time or available shop space, to do here, so looking for a 1-stop shop approach for the refresh. Maybe even give it a little bit of a up-tick, if it makes sense.
Since GH, I have confirmed the motor and turbo are true at 200K miles and completely unmolested. Damn that girl must be tired. Turbo is showing signs of bearing failure under full boost, so guessing new turbo will be needed too. Face it, 200K and still original, she had an easy life.
So what ya guys think? Looking for recommendations and options. Oh yea, depending on who/where I end up going, would be willing to assist when possible.
fidelity101:
Best bet is to grab a friend and do a compression test. do total compression on each rotor then grab your cell phone and record you taking the compression with your finger holding down the Schrader valve on the compression gauge to monitor for even pulses at about 60 psi.
Any loss of coolant? That would be a sign of a different issue.
rallybill:
Oooops, sorry for delay.
Nope, no coolant loss. Small oil leak somewhere, that I am still searching for. Need to get it up in the air and pull the lower shielding off next.
Don't have compression tester. Recommendations to acquire? Always thought needed special tester. But I know it can be done with standard testers.
toplessFC3Sman:
Any compression tester will work as long as it doesn't have a check-valve to hold the maximum compression reading, or if it has a bleed valve to release the built-up pressure so that you can see the individual pulses from each rotor face.
rallybill:
Allrighty. Finally had opportunity to check things out.
Oil leak is power steering fluid. Small leak somewhere on the rack. Cleaned everything off so can monitor. That's positive and should be an easy fix, once tracked down. Tie rod boots are ripped, so need to source new ones. Again, not a show stopper.
Motor compression was not unexpected. Front rotor peak 60-65 and rear rotor peak 65-70. But did take a number of revolutions to finally settle on those values. Without the schrader valve, in the gage, reading 30-35 pulsing evenly, for rear. Pulsing 25-30 evenly for front. Did not observe any pulse lower than the others, on either rotor. So at least the compression is down evenly.
So, asking the class. Rebuild time? I think so....
Was able to identify what i thought was a turbo squeal. Looks like it was the turbo heat shield vibrating against the exhaust heat shield. So maybe turbo is still good...
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