August 29, 200322 yr Well, I finally got the motor installed in my '86. It ran a little rougher that I wanted, Made a lot more noise than I wanted, Blew a little more smoke than I wanted. For about 5 minutes.......... Then it started blowing pancake batter out the aircleaner I bought the motor from a former board member about a year and a half ago, been in storage until about two weeks ago. I'm guessing a bad headgasket. I can't think of any other way to get that much water into the oil. Man, I just did the timing belts, oil pump water pump, Clutch, main seals, blah, blah, blah. Vent! Vent! Vent! Oh well, see my post in the market place, I need another motor. Wait 'till my Wife hears this, She hates project cars. I'm gonna be so grounded:banghead:
August 30, 200322 yr Author Oh well, I'll find another motor and start over. At least the new parts I threw on this motor can be pulled off and put on the next one. Or I could toss in an EA81...............
August 30, 200322 yr Author No this one was clean. One of the things I did was pull the pan and reseal it. No water there. Man, I wonder if I could have mixed up a vacuum line and a water line? Those crossover lines are pretty small.........
August 30, 200322 yr I've heard of where people mix-up the pcv lines with the heater hoses but I doubt that's your problem. It could be a blown gasket or cracked head like mentinioned before. Another possibility is a freeze plug in the head popped out.
August 30, 200322 yr Author Yeah I know, Mixing up a vac-line and one of the crossovers is a long shot, especially when I replaced them with the motor out and had plenty of room to see what I was doing. I'm just in the "looking for an excuse to blame myself" stage. I'll get over it, there are plenty of Suby motors around, I'll find one pretty quick and start over. Besides, I DO still have a couple of spare EA81s. If a 5spd will go behind an EA81. An EA81 will go in front of a 5spd:D
August 30, 200322 yr yes it will you need one with the 9 inch clutch, i'm not sure if you need to space the starter:cornfuzz:
August 31, 200322 yr Hi, are you using a EA-71? If so mail me, I have a spare with not much into it. It has 61,000 and was in the back of my Brat at the car show on the fourth, let me know, Bradd
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