[V8] '92 with a broken timing belt

[Buchholz, Steven]

A local lister got a whole ABH engine from a wrecked car at a recycler there
in Colorado for a pretty cheap price ... that might be the good tack to
take.  I'd probably try to get a set of heads and recover the engine that
way, or you could do an entire engine swap.  I don't know how much time the
person has, but I've heard of cases where TB losses don't do too much damage
to the engine ... if the car was at or near idle when the belt went you
might just want to put a new TB on it and do a compression check to see ...
perhaps you could get away with pulling only one head and getting it
repaired.  

I myself am a bit leery of swapping in a whole engine from a wrecker unless
I know the history of the engine ...

Steve B
San Jose, Kaleefohnia (USA)
> 
> Hey fellow listers.  A friend in Denver had an unfortunate 
> New Years Day
> mishap; a broken timing belt.  From those of you that have been in the
> same situation (especially those of you with 4.2l motors) what are his
> options?  
> 
> We are assuming valve damage occurred, and it will obviously need a
> timing belt job (assuming it is salvageable)...  What costs can be
> expected to rebuild what he already has?