Cylinder bore is scratched up!
As bad as that is and the no money situation, it's kind of like what have you got to lose?
I had a '98 Plymouth Voyager 2.4 four cylinder that one hole was way worse than that. The saving grace was the nasty water pitting was below the upper 1" higher compression area of the cylinder.
Ran the piston down to the bottom, packed the upper ring area with grease. Went in with new red scotch bright pads and WD-40 by hand, broke the glaze and cleaned up the cylinder walls as best as can > mopping out with paper towels as things were progressing along.
A little back and forth with a bead hone would have been handy had I had one, here in Florida working with limited tools and no garage to work in.
Yeah it was a nasty hack, the rings bridged the low pit areas and it was still able to build compression on the top portion of the cylinder. The WD-40 helped to loosen the carbon around the rings to free them up, as another step to help build compression.
Put the used head back on with a new head gasket (old head gasket blew between 2 cylinders, ran like crap) put it all back together.
Fired it up and it instantly ran better now that the 4 cylinders were making compression again.
Drove it for a year, no smoke out the exhaust, engine still ran fine. Then got rid of it when my '89 D100 truck came along.
You would have never thought that engine would have survived as nasty as that cylinder was, but it did.
It served it's purpose and was a stepping stone to where things are now. Most people would have thrown in the towel.
Worse than the engine, that '98 Voyager was an electronics nightmare, was glad to see that one go.
Flipped the Florida license plate over onto the Dodge Truck, so that helped moving into that next vehicle. Silver lining to the Cloud.
☆☆☆☆☆
As bad as that is and the no money situation, it's kind of like what have you got to lose?
I had a '98 Plymouth Voyager 2.4 four cylinder that one hole was way worse than that. The saving grace was the nasty water pitting was below the upper 1" higher compression area of the cylinder.
Ran the piston down to the bottom, packed the upper ring area with grease. Went in with new red scotch bright pads and WD-40 by hand, broke the glaze and cleaned up the cylinder walls as best as can > mopping out with paper towels as things were progressing along.
A little back and forth with a bead hone would have been handy had I had one, here in Florida working with limited tools and no garage to work in.
Yeah it was a nasty hack, the rings bridged the low pit areas and it was still able to build compression on the top portion of the cylinder. The WD-40 helped to loosen the carbon around the rings to free them up, as another step to help build compression.
Put the used head back on with a new head gasket (old head gasket blew between 2 cylinders, ran like crap) put it all back together.
Fired it up and it instantly ran better now that the 4 cylinders were making compression again.
Drove it for a year, no smoke out the exhaust, engine still ran fine. Then got rid of it when my '89 D100 truck came along.
You would have never thought that engine would have survived as nasty as that cylinder was, but it did.
It served it's purpose and was a stepping stone to where things are now. Most people would have thrown in the towel.
Worse than the engine, that '98 Voyager was an electronics nightmare, was glad to see that one go.
Flipped the Florida license plate over onto the Dodge Truck, so that helped moving into that next vehicle. Silver lining to the Cloud.
☆☆☆☆☆