Have to rebuild my I6 4.0...

[Katalyzt13]

Does anybody know where to get a good rebuild kit for a fair price?  I've never rebuilt an engine before...really nothing near this size of job...so it will be interesting.

[87MJTIM]

Where do you live?  That will help us in order to give you the name of machine shops.

 

About 5 years ago I inquired of two shops in my area (Frederick MD) an estimate for a whole block rebuild.  I was quoted between $2000 and $2500.  Both estimates were conditional on the condition of the engine in the beginning.

 

(I ended up having it rebuilt by a client.  We bartered the services.)

[ftpiercecracker1]

If you have the money to rebuild it, maybe stroke it while your at it? Add a few extra ft/lbs, hmmmmm? 

 

Otherwise it would be far FAR cheap to by a used one out of a junkyard. I bought mine about 5 years ago, 110k for $250

Still going strong.

 

Also, if you're not inclined to pull it yourself, put an ad on Craigslist, "$$$, pull engine for me at junkyard".

 

This is what I did, $100, had someone lined up within an hour.

[Pete M]

what happened to the current one?

[Katalyzt13]

I live in northwest Georgia.

 

it has started  running rough so a little troubleshooting and I discovered that the oil smells like gas, which I'm taking to mean that at the very least the rings are blown.

[Pete M]

definitely sounds plausible.  but I would  run a compression test and leakdown test before writing it off.  just to be sure.

[sinkrun]

Could be leaky injectors?

[Katalyzt13]

Sorry for the late response - unforeseen circumstances have kept me away from this problem for a while. 

 

I'm not sure about the injectors - I had kind of ruled that out based off of the nature of how it had begun running leading up to this.  Maybe I need to revisit.