your right, motors been out befor, cylinders have discolor indication which suggests to me at some point rings on 2 cylinders had been broke and walls ball honed, the walls do have very nice cross hatching still for 170k miles. head intake valves were clean as a whistle very minimul build up, the exhust valves had alot of mineral build up.
i got new gaskets, timing belt (even though it looks new) and other parts on order. ive cleaned and smoothed block mating surface, and i have the head getting cleaned ported polished. exhust vales after clean up had no damage or pitting (thank god.) should have her back together this weekend, if i dont work overtime on sat.
old head gasket (YUMMY)
here is the baby heart all tore open =(
and here we have the head in the process of its clean up, rework, port and polish lol
