Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

Yep...pulled my first engine today. Went to the garage on a mission to pull the head, hoping to find a busted head gasket that I could easily replace. Few problem through out the day as there always are...

When taking out the cams gears...I tried the 5mm dowel thing and this happened.
http://www.-------------/Engine/broken-cam-hole.jpg
http://www.-------------/Engine/broken-cam-hole.jpg
Yep, the fucken cam cap just broke...i dunno. I figured it wouldnt hurt much if I had to put it back together like that.

So I continued and got the head off. (first time pulling the head too)
http://www.-------------/Engine/head-gone.jpg
http://www.-------------/Engine/head-gone-2.jpg

Once I took it off, I found this lovely thing...
http://www.-------------/Engine/cylinder-crack.jpg
A hair line crack in the cylinder. This is the culprit of my massive blow-by, low compression and radiator overflow tank continually exploding. At least it made 251 HP on the dyno, even with the crack! ----... >:(

So, I decided that I am going to have to put in my other engine that I got recently for free basically. So I pulled the tranny.
http://www.-------------/Engine/tranny-gone.jpg
http://www.-------------/Engine/tranny-gone-2.jpg

Then I dropped the block.
http://www.-------------/Engine/lowering-block.jpg
Lowering the block all by yourself with 3 jacks isn't all that hard really. :)
http://www.-------------/Engine/block-out.jpg
http://www.-------------/Engine/engine-gone.jpg

Well that was my day. Spent about 10 hours at the garage and did it all by myself in my tiny space. I was pretty happy by the end and learned a lot once again.

What, you thought this was gonna be about me losing my virginty? Get your mind out of the gutter... :-*

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

you suck at pictures

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Fixed sucka!

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

congrates I think :-\

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

Kinda yeah...I def have fun doing that kinda work...the cracked sleeve wasnt something I planned on.

Gives me a reason to go big with this next year though and sleeve it and build while i run around on the other engine.

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

the title mislead me
hahah good job :D

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did it hurt ?

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Yeah...i cried for a little. But I heard it gets better the more and more you do it. So Im gonna start doing a lot of it. ;)

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

yeah dude. only bigger and better

Re:Got my cherry popped tonight!
 

pulling the head of dohc suck compared to the single :P......how the hell do you make 250 whp with a shitty engine 8)