Re: Front End Rebuild Experience

Posted by Brandon On 2009/7/9 10:57:24

I didn't actually ask Where they planned on getting them, After looking at my car they decided to send me somewhere else, who sent me on my way back to my side of town to the shop down the road.

I talked to them for a while and he decided $350 for labor, (both sides) but I had to order the parts. And so I did and paid a bit too much for them, but I wanted to be sure they were right, but now I know that my local auto parts store would have been a better deal. Oh well..

However it turns out this project will be put aside and will leave the Patrician parked probably for some time. Due to I what I think would be burnt valves. I'm only guessing from the half quart of oil I have to put in every four days, and the copious amounts of black smoke out the rear.

I don't want to just do the topside of the block so I'm going to have to wait and get the whole thing rebuilt. Then with the block out, redo the front end.

I'm glad I got to drive it for a couple of months before it gets torn apart, I would have been fairly disappointed if I had never driven it in the four or five years I've had in now.