Just picked up a stellar deal on a vert that is knocking. My dad claims bac in the day they used to do it that way when he worked at thedealerships in the 80s/90s. But never did it on a cav or sunfire. Im a little apprehensive about pulling the whole motor cuz thats alot of work and id like to replace my winter beater with the vert as a summer dd so i dont have to drive the turbo car every day this summer so i wany it going soon. Just wondering if its not worth the hassle of yanking the whole thing and rebuilding
Also should note acording to service records i got with the car it had a head gasket and timing set put on about 10k miles ago
It can be done, however, if it's knocking and has a spun bearing, most likely you have a bad crankshaft as well. It really doesn't take long to pull the engine, so I would just do it that way. Its much easier to put bearings in with it engine on a stand versus laying on you back with a screw driver trying to push old bearings out/ new bearings in.
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Ive seen it done in Hondas and my friends dad says hes done it on a Montana van. I think the cradle might be in your way in a Cav.
Its definitely not the proper way to do it and I wouldnt expect it to last long term. Kind of a fix it and @!#$ the next guy who buys it kind of thing.
After getting a part list put together it looks like I can get away with rebuilding the bottom end without removing the head for under $200 so im going to just pull it and do it that way, guess im not selling the winter beater for a little longer
the dealership did that in my z, for some reason it failed time after time because they didn't take it out and make sure the engine was good. do it right or prepare to do it again.
pull the motor and do a bumch of repairs at once
why do people try to take the hard way pulling a motor is a couple hours, you can pull and replace in a day if you have the smarts and since your dad has changed them before i'm sure he can
JBO since July 30, 2001
