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]

Oil cooler not cleaned yet.

The problem with oil coolers is that they are pretty cheap.

On my original engine with all the rust in the sump, that cooler is garbage. No way to ensure the rust all comes out.

On this engine the sump is pretty clean. Could clean this cooler but for the time it will take to clean carefully with kerosene, I'll probably just replace it.

1). Need to clean exterior 1st. Soaking and always keeping the cooler ports facing down to help keep exterior junk from getting inside.
2). Then have to keep flushing the cooler internals until clean. In past I've used a pressure bottle of kerosene and finished with compressed air.

It is at least an hour or two of work. Coolers now seem cheaper than the labor to clean.

It'll be a tough call. I'll post pics if I do clean it.