Hey there guys, I got a real brain teaser here. Iv been working on my 93 DE motor for the past 2 weeks. When I bought the car 2 weeks ago and it ran perfect. The only thing was that there was coolant in the oil. I had the dealer change the oil and i drove it home 35 miles in 85 degree heat with no issues what so ever. Since i had a head gasket kit at home, i thought i could just do a weekend head gasket replacement and everything would be peachy.
I removed the head and took it out to get it resurfaced. The machinist said it was warped pritty good and he had to take off a lot of material but it was all good to go now. I reinstalled the head, torqued it down in the right order with a torque wrench. I reinstalled the cams and all the timing marks line up. Everything was also done with #1 at TDC. I used a new intake manifold gasket at the head and used silicone in the middle. All the Vac lines seem to be in order, I removed the 2 EGR valves on the manifold as the EGR pipe was no good. I also plugged the swirl control valve vac line. The car has new plugs, wires, cap and rotor. It also has a brand new coolant temp sensor.
The ignition timing is right at 20 degrees and at TDC, the cams are right where they need to be, exhaust cam at 12 o’clock and the intake at about 10. The car only cranks over with a back fire every now and then. Are both the cam and crank sensors in the distributer? What else controls when the injectors fire? At first I also mixed up the fuel feed and return lines and I was feeding fuel right to the regulator, did I mess it up? Any other issues or ideas? I am really stumped on this one... my weekend head gasket project turned into a 2 week nightmare. :tears
I removed the head and took it out to get it resurfaced. The machinist said it was warped pritty good and he had to take off a lot of material but it was all good to go now. I reinstalled the head, torqued it down in the right order with a torque wrench. I reinstalled the cams and all the timing marks line up. Everything was also done with #1 at TDC. I used a new intake manifold gasket at the head and used silicone in the middle. All the Vac lines seem to be in order, I removed the 2 EGR valves on the manifold as the EGR pipe was no good. I also plugged the swirl control valve vac line. The car has new plugs, wires, cap and rotor. It also has a brand new coolant temp sensor.
The ignition timing is right at 20 degrees and at TDC, the cams are right where they need to be, exhaust cam at 12 o’clock and the intake at about 10. The car only cranks over with a back fire every now and then. Are both the cam and crank sensors in the distributer? What else controls when the injectors fire? At first I also mixed up the fuel feed and return lines and I was feeding fuel right to the regulator, did I mess it up? Any other issues or ideas? I am really stumped on this one... my weekend head gasket project turned into a 2 week nightmare. :tears
I also know that if i keep this car, ill start dumping $$$ into it as i keeping thinking of ways to make the handle the local touge better.
