Engine GA000099, An early GA engine rebuild thread Options

[Superhawk996]

Last week I bought engine GA000099 from Freezing914 in the hopes of picking up some spare parts to support rebuild of the engine that came with my vehicle.

During the teardown of my vehicles engine, it is quickly becoming clear that the engine was abused by some DAPO. Cooling flaps and thermostat had been removed. Rust in the sump. The crank was scored and already 0.010" undersized. The oil pump was torn up. This is just the tip of the iceberg on the engine that came with my vehicle. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif)

14 hours of driving seems to have netted me an engine that might be worthy of a rebuild. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

This engine appears to be bone stock. D-jet mostly complete. As an added bonus I discovered upon teardown that none of the cooling tin fasteners have ever been disturbed. No screwdriver marks!

But . . . like any engine of this age and unknown origin, it absolutely needs to be gone though.

[Superhawk996]

One of the nice things about this engine is that the D-jet system is pretty complete and I could take pictures of how hoses were routed before teardown.

I was anxious though to get to the good stuff. I really wanted to know what was inside. Tearing down an engine is like Christmas for me. What's in the box . . . what's in the box!

After finally getting down to the bare tin, I was a little bummed to find the passenger side tin is cracked. Not a big deal but like everything else . . . something else that needs fixin'.



Since the cheesehead screws had never been disturbed quite a few were really rusted. Penetrating oil did the trick on most. But there is always that one. You know the one.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif) The one that won't break free. Heat. Nope. Impact driver. Nope. Weld nut broke free? Nope. Finally it just pushed though the tin from hammering on it with the impact driver. Not the end of the world. Just another little hole to be welded up and re-drilled.

With that out of the way I pulled the tin. Crap. Mice have been here! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)



On the other side, I found all sorts of goodies. Old spark plug extension between the cylinders and basically just a bunch of blocked fins from leaves and the mouse house.

Pulled the cylinder heads which basically look pretty decent but will need to be cleaned to see if they have cracking.

And with that -- Ta da! Stock pistons. Sweet.



Just what I had hoped to see. Time for a drink (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer3.gif)