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Hi Again, been thinking I should post a thanks to this forum for providing some much needed guidance to an engine newbie. Bad form of me to cut and run, but had to go overseas for 6mo. Outcome was I fixed the car and gave it to a family member just before I left, they've since racked up about 60k mi...

Okay back in business now; had some affairs to attend to. I spent a bit of time trying to find a spring compressor to get the valves out, I might as well had been speaking greek to the parts/tool guys. After buying and returning 3 different (expensive) tools, ended up cutting a deep well socket into...

Okay here's the deal: Replaced the pulleys, replaced and set the timing belt and tried to turn it over and nothing..just CLICK. We all knew this thing wasn't going to make it that easy. So we pulled the head off, marking everything as it came off. Lifting the head off I spot three valve heads laying...

Thanks for the reply. Today we tried again with a charged battery and got compression 85-90 on each cylinder. Checked the fuel pressure at the rail and got about 41psi. Next up I pulled the passenger wheel, shroud, motor mount and timing cover and spot one of the idler pulleys was destroyed. Prior t...

Hi all, I've become the owner of a 1999 leganza 2.2 DOHC that will not start. The odometer is at 68k miles. The previous owner stated that the engine was "rebuilt" at some point but didn't elaborate on when/how/why. It will turn over and attempt to start, usually it will catch and run badly for a co...