I have not worked on my Civic in months. I broke my Accord a few times and in the last two months I have had all kinds of drama, strep and dog flu, my grandfather died, I had all kinds of deadlines, applied to gradschool, and this:
I wanted to work on it Thursday, but I spent all day with my brother's appointments and taking care of things for him. I spent that night and Friday morning finishing notes and exchanging work e-mails. It was dark when I got back from work.
I spent most of today figuring out my mileage expenses for last year. I spent hours and hours doing it just to claim 1,878 miles.
So, I replaced the head gasket, but the crankshaft pulley bolt sheared. I extracted it and ordered a replacement, which may have been one of the fasteners that I lost, replaced, and then found the originals. I stripped a valve cover bolt hole, replaced it with a time-sert, the bolt stretched, so I ordered new ones, other bolt holes stripped, and I ordered Helicoils.
I shared a video where a mechanic taped down a shop towel to keep metal shavings off of the head.
Well, it didn't work, and I spent a horrible amount of time removing metal shavings and I worry that I missed some. Worse, I feel that I need to use a Helicoil on all seven bolt holes, and there is a terrible chance of getting more shavings in the engine.
I bought a cutting mat from the dollar store. I figure that I can glue it to the metal around the bolt holes and use that to keep the metal shavings out of the engine, but there are still a number of ways that could fail.
I could remove the head [again] and scrub it thoroughly and then blow it extensively with compressed air.
Would I want to remove the head before putting Helicoils on all of the bolt holes?
I keep wondering about this part of the thread:
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Originally Posted by Xist
Honestly, I do not have any idea what I would do if everything works out.
If the head is bad, here is a remanufactured one: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/vre-2538/overview/
Car-part.com shows an HX head for $150 in Phoenix, one for $163.35 in Yuma, and one in Tucson for $300. I cannot find any heads through LKQ, but it only seems to show whether they have the inventory at that location. RockAuto has a head for $475.77 shipped.
RockAuto. Yay.
Jegs has one for $620. https://cylinderhead.com has one for $350 (+ shipping). AutoZone has one for $580.
I do not know how much another D16Y5 engine would cost, but it would be far more complicated than just the head, and I am sure that would be the end of this project. |
Hopefully the $150 head, which is still listed, would check out, and I would only use the torque wrench on the bolts, to ensure that I do not strip anything.