84BuickGNYorkPA
Daily Driving Buick V-6 Turbo's 1979 - Present
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2005
Hello Buick Brothers (and Sisters),
Long time no see, out for knee replacement surgery 11/14, it went well, back to walking at lunch time and riding bicycle, knee is doing great, no more arthritis (racquetball injury from the early 80's) and no more pain!
Finally got the Buick from Marley Hay's house last weekend (thanks for letting me store it there since October), was on my way to local car show cruisin down I-83 in Oct last year and a freakin Prius went on my back bumper. I told my brother Joe and son Travis that is was time to show the Prius what's up. And ca-boom, that was it, the Prius won before it started and I'm sure it made his day. The engine made it 5.5 years and has 24,700 miles on it, had good compression and pulled good vacuum at idle.
So yesterday I pull the motor with the help of brother Joe and son's Travis and Andrew, put it on the engine stand and the crank is broken right between the #1 and #2 journals. This engine is bored .040 over with torque plates and diamond pistons in the holes. The mains where lined honed and a rjc girdle was installed, with the roller rocker valve train and the used champion heads, I was up to $7k. I decided to chance the crank and connecting rods and not spend another couple grand on a forged crank, aftermarket balancer and flywheel.
I'm leaning toward new forged external balanced crank, and on the fence about aftermarket connecting rods. Rarely hear of stock rods failing, or should I just spend the money? Looking at $1400 for everything including ACL bearings and fresh set of rings. Plus $$$ to have rotating assembly balanced. All of this is assuming that #1 bore is ok, as 2-6 the crank is solid.
Looking for thoughts and opinions, thanks.
Chuck
Long time no see, out for knee replacement surgery 11/14, it went well, back to walking at lunch time and riding bicycle, knee is doing great, no more arthritis (racquetball injury from the early 80's) and no more pain!
Finally got the Buick from Marley Hay's house last weekend (thanks for letting me store it there since October), was on my way to local car show cruisin down I-83 in Oct last year and a freakin Prius went on my back bumper. I told my brother Joe and son Travis that is was time to show the Prius what's up. And ca-boom, that was it, the Prius won before it started and I'm sure it made his day. The engine made it 5.5 years and has 24,700 miles on it, had good compression and pulled good vacuum at idle.
So yesterday I pull the motor with the help of brother Joe and son's Travis and Andrew, put it on the engine stand and the crank is broken right between the #1 and #2 journals. This engine is bored .040 over with torque plates and diamond pistons in the holes. The mains where lined honed and a rjc girdle was installed, with the roller rocker valve train and the used champion heads, I was up to $7k. I decided to chance the crank and connecting rods and not spend another couple grand on a forged crank, aftermarket balancer and flywheel.
I'm leaning toward new forged external balanced crank, and on the fence about aftermarket connecting rods. Rarely hear of stock rods failing, or should I just spend the money? Looking at $1400 for everything including ACL bearings and fresh set of rings. Plus $$$ to have rotating assembly balanced. All of this is assuming that #1 bore is ok, as 2-6 the crank is solid.
Looking for thoughts and opinions, thanks.
Chuck
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