JordanBerk
Junior Member
Well I was hoping this question would be made obvious for me but after several phone calls it seems that every reman 3v is on permanent backorder making my job a lot harder!
I've wound up with a 2005 GT that was put out of commission by a drivers side cam phaser failure; however, that was several years ago and since then its been sitting with the valve covers off, spark plugs out, etc. I was hoping to go the easy way with a reman and let them deal with rebuilding but have no interest waiting around 6+ months with no eta... Which leaves me with either buying a junkyard engine for $2k or rebuilding.
I guess I'm just curious what you guys would do with it in this situation! Getting an 80k+ mile motor with unknown service history surely doesn't seem ideal to me. I'm willing to go through the process of learning to rebuild the motor but still have questions, if the pistons and cylinder walls look fine is it worth leaving the short block together and just rebuilding valve train/ timing etc? I pulled the motor out of the car a few days ago but haven't taken it apart anymore than it already was. I'm located in southern Missouri so I guess any suggestion on rebuilders in driving distance would be helpful too.
Sorry if this came out super rambley, and thanks in advance for any advice!
I've wound up with a 2005 GT that was put out of commission by a drivers side cam phaser failure; however, that was several years ago and since then its been sitting with the valve covers off, spark plugs out, etc. I was hoping to go the easy way with a reman and let them deal with rebuilding but have no interest waiting around 6+ months with no eta... Which leaves me with either buying a junkyard engine for $2k or rebuilding.
I guess I'm just curious what you guys would do with it in this situation! Getting an 80k+ mile motor with unknown service history surely doesn't seem ideal to me. I'm willing to go through the process of learning to rebuild the motor but still have questions, if the pistons and cylinder walls look fine is it worth leaving the short block together and just rebuilding valve train/ timing etc? I pulled the motor out of the car a few days ago but haven't taken it apart anymore than it already was. I'm located in southern Missouri so I guess any suggestion on rebuilders in driving distance would be helpful too.
Sorry if this came out super rambley, and thanks in advance for any advice!