Just bought an 88 truck 2.4 litre EFI with a blown head gasket. plans thus far include first of course is fixing the motor, bigger tires, building some sort of flat bed (the bed was torn off by previous owner) and probably a spool in the rear

 

Pictures to come soon

 

nice. Welcome.

 

ordered new parts today, new head gasket set and new timing chain set. should be here by friday

 

still trying to upload pictures

 

here is whats left of the bed


my red 88 and my friends green 86


valve cover and rockers and head bolts all out head almost ready to come off

 

good luck

 

Parts came in today, took head to the machine shop to have checked, if all goes to plan (which I know never seems to happen) I should have it running next week

 

Hows your truck comming?Was your head ok?

 

head checked out, no problems just got it back today, parts are all in, did a little cleanup work on the block mostly just removing old gasket material and cut the rear bumper off.

 

no more bumper


here is the head, gasket blew on #1

 

haven't had much time this week to work on it hopefully can some more this weekend

 

Got the head back on this morning before work gonna work on the intake and such tonight after work

 

hope it works great

 

subscribed. good luck kzink

 

so i got most everything back together except i got a new timing chain set and can't seem to get the the cam gear on all the timing marks are lined up but it just seems a little to short i don't know maybe i can get it to go but its testing my patience... any ideas?

 

how short is a little to short?

 

Its maybe 1/8 inch to short I just hate trying to force stuff

 

hmm your truck is an 88 but is the engine the original?

 

As far as I know its the original engine, the emission stuff all matches what the book says it should look like. But I am not sure is there a number casting somewhere on the engine I can compare?