Not too bad. Intake comes off, exhaust and turbo stay on. You
cannot rotate the engine with the head off unless you want to re-time
the cam and injection timer (you set it at TDC and leave it alone).
New head bolts. Heads run $1500 to $2500 bare.
Peter
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Rich Thomas wrote:
So is that gasket pretty straightforward to replace? Is getting
the head off fairly easy? Then replacing gasket and putting head
back on? I guess you would need to remove the chain and intake/
exhaust then some other stuff, get the bolts off, then redo?
Probably check the round on the cylinders while the head is off to
see if it is starting to go bad? While head is off, replace rods?
--R
Peter Frederick wrote:
Overheating will kill any OM603 head. More likely a dead head
gasket -- they only last about 200,000 miles,
Peter
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
He says the 115 was running fine but the blower resistor
overheated and caught fire, burned under the dash or something,
The blower resistor pack is inside the air intake plenum, under
the grille. The connector on the firewall goes to it. Nothing
there to catch fire except the resistor pack itself, which is
metal, and its plastic connector. And the cable over to the
blower motor, of course!
Unless, of course, that it was something else and _was_ under
the dash. That could be a mess.
thinking that for $800 (if I beat on the guy a bit) or $1000 and
some parts and a bit of time, a very nice car could be running.
That could be OK. It's all about price and effort. But that
kind of territory, if the car is otherwise nice and you
realistically
could put it right enough to drive (you should see my to-be-done
pile!)
then you can have a pretty nice ride for not so much that way.
I thought the cracking head problem had been dealt with by
the rodbender era, so the chances of a cracked head are down
to 'normal'. Unless it got overheated at all.
-- Jim
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