[V8] 3.6L V8 engine needed
toml99 at todomundo.com
toml99 at todomundo.com
Tue Jan 10 18:07:43 PST 2012
I'll second Dave about the chance of finding yet a 3rd motor that's
perfect. My spare motor only has 125K on it, but wasn't really taken
care of properly, and does burn oil, and had some low compression.
That compression went up substantially after 2 shock level doses of
Techron(bottle in 4-6 gallons of gas) run thru it and my guess is
that maybe some of the crap got cleaned off the valves. Someday in
another lifetime, I'll pull the heads and have them gone thru. Head
bolts/gasket/guides/seals are still less than I'd part with my 125K
oil burning motor for. If the motor were out, then a set of rings
also can make it a "new motor"(calling Dave Head)....
One of my cars has never, and still doesn't burn a noticeable amount
of oil between the 3000 mile oil changes that it's had it's entire
life....The rest eat oil steadily, but run fine/don't noticeably
smoke, but you can smell it. I just bought a gallon of 2-stroke oil
for the boat tonight, and it's just a part of owning that motor..I
look at the V8's the same way.....I could sell them for nothing, and
buy a new Honda that probably wouldn't burn oil and got stellar fuel
mileage, but I'd still miss the V8 everytime I got in the car. Tom
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