Well, it so happens that my mechanic was able to repair my carburetor power valve, it took time and money (less than what it would've costed me to buy a new carburetor) Car's doing better but the slipping clutch problem has finally come back to bite me in the butt after being ignored for over a year. The car suddenly began to drop oil like a half open tap. Timing seal was the issue, this problem recurred thrice, within the same 2 days. the car went through 3 timing seals within a day.
I had noticed a bit prior to this that you couldn't drive off in second gear if you slowed down a little, and would have to shift into 1st, (which was too low for the speed to the car would jerk and revs would rise) this problem got worse. Now after the 3rd timing seal, when I began to drive home, the car bean jerking so bad when I would shift into anything above 1st and above speeds of 10km/h. It felt as if I was being rear-ended and hitting something in front of me. I used to the momentum the car had and turned around back to the mech who after a test drive said he said something is wrong with the plugs, most likely oil has fouled them (the plugs are only 850kms old).
He says "gariii back bohatt marrahii hai" I saw this when the aircleaner was off the car and the car was idling so he could make fine adjustments to the carburetor. On all miscellaneous settings. As the car would rev for a setting or something I could see the sheer amount of smoke coming out of the tapper cover outlet (where a pipe connects to the pcv valve and aircleaner) Even at idle there was a decent amount of smoke coming out. He says the reason for this is the worn out compression rings on the piston.
his conclusion is that, either we sell the car and upgrade (which is impossible due to financial constraints) or we spend a hefty amount once (around 90k pkr) and have the engine redone like new (overhaul) Because the engine requires a new head (discussed this earlier in the thread due to rot from rusty water in cooling system), clutch work, piston work. Bore will be checked, face is unlikely but will be checked and engine will go to laith wala nonetheless.
So my questions regarding the overhaul were:
- How reliable is the overhaul? (how long will it last and how problem free will we be?)
- Is his price quote fair?
- I have read about people's mechanic's removing tstat and making the fan direct and running car on 20w50 for the "break in period" of the overhauled engine. How does that all work, I would rather run the car on 5w20 with tstat and auto fan on a freshly overhauled engine and just take it easy the first few hundred kms.
Explain why mechs might do that? Can I run the car on 5w30 after an overhaul? Also what are some things I should look out for, for this overhaul, anyone who's gotten this down, what was the experience like, it is worth it?
