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[Charlane]

So, reading this Haynes book has been good and bad. I did as the book said and unbolted the cross member (after securing the engine) and the steering gear and took off the pan. Damn, that was a hard job because I had to unbolt the two bottom engine bolts, remove the heat shielding AND I even had to loosen the right engine mount which is sheer hell to get to....but I did it. I went as far and the ball joints and tie rods ends even.

I took off the pan, and checked it for funk. No funk. I took off the oil feeder tube attached to the engine to see if the strainer had anything in it binding. Nope. I cleaned off all the old gasket, put copper gasket sealant on it and then the new gasket after scrubbing off all of the oil and dirt from the pan and put it back on. During all of this, I discovered that my left engine mount was broken cleanly at the block with no edge to get a vise grip on to back it out so it's to the easy out for me. I still need to get the brake master and booster off first before proceeding.

My oil leak is gone.

I took off the valve cover gasket and cleaned all of the dirt and goo from it and then I took off the oil feeder tube. The little plastic piece is in good shape and this would make sense since I had the heads off about three years ago with someone else doing this. So the question of why I have 2 flat lobes on my camshaft remains unanswered except to say that my oil pump is good and that any abnormal engine reaction could be an electrical ground out because I found one spark plug wire with a burn in it (fixed now).

I'm glad I went thru this because I want to know my car inside and out and I don't want to eat cold concrete in the winter doing this when I will have no other choice.

I still need to figure out the cam/valve adjustment and by all accounts, this is relatively simple. I'm worried that with those flat lobes that there might be some overcompensation that will bend valves as a result. I'm looking diligently for a camshaft that is right for my 924.

Thanks Nick for the PMs. Smashing!
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Electra is Here......

One 1980 924 Turbo
One 1990 KZ1000P (CHPS) Motorcycle
One 1984 244 Turbo Volvo (B21FT) (I installed this engine myself)
One 1977 240D Mercedes Benz
One 1970 Chevy Impala

[Slam]

Kudos to you! Not for the faint of heart, that. My wife took the oil pan off her 931 but ended up kinda disheartened because of the damage to the rods she found.

Flat cam lobes on the 924 can be the result of poor cam oiling due to the oil feed tube getting clogged or the cam oiler elbow breaking. Fairly common, I guess. I'd replace the cam oiler elbow as a matter of course.

Have fun with the engine mounts!
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'88 944 Auto - may or may not resurrect

[Chrenan]

Maybe the cam oiler elbow broke at some point in the past causing a loss of top end oil? Integral cams sells new billet cams for the 924 for $300 I think, might be a good way to go.
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1987 951 - M193 Version for Japan