drummingpariah
Building a bettery daily.
trek97 said:Well that stinks. I am amazed the plug broke off...Rather than, tearing the threads out along w the plug.
If I were you I would pull the head cover and check the condition on the cam lobes and journals. That one may be worth saving. Before looking at buying someone elses ebay junk. (theres plenty of them out there). Or is somebody now making a "new" 360 clone?
Soak the plug remains w penetrant a few days and heat it up w torch a few cycles more penetrant then try and easy out...or take it to a machine shop.
Ordered a square-style easy-out, as I've never had the best luck getting the concentric style to work on stuff like this. The hole is cleared at least, but I'm betting some porcelain bits ended up inside the cylinder. Ceramics are pretty much the worst possible things to have rubbing between a cylinder wall and piston, so I'm leaning toward having to pull the head now. I really want to avoid that. There's still time for me to tear the threads out with the remains of the plug though, don't worry!
I made some time to test the electric starter, and the results were underwhelming. SOMETHING spun, but it definitely wasn't the engine. I decided to pull the side covers off, and that took most of Saturday to finish. I really really hate Phillips. I'm going to try the starter motor again, now that I can see what the chain is doing
Any other advice for getting the engine to turn, short of pulling the valve cover and head? I'd like to be able to put real torque on the crank (using the stator rotor, I suppose?) Somehow, that doesn't seem like the best possible idea. I wish I had a USB inspection camera/light on-hand, so I could see what the cylinder walls look like.
If I do have to replace the engine, it'll just be with someone else's ebay junk. A few hundred dollars for something that spins around is enough for me to work with, at the very least.