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Originally Posted by Brent fabian
I pulled the valve cover today and saw the camshaft was spotless with no sludge, the only sludge was built up around the oil fill cap because there was a small "shelf" where it could accumulate.
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That is great news!
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Originally Posted by Brent fabian
gonna pull the oilpan and cylinder head and give it a once over and cleaning, and cant wait to get it into the car!
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If the camshaft area was spotless, why go thru all the extra work of a headgasket R/R? Unless you saw other reasons for it (oil/water mix, external coolant or oil leaks)? Just clean up the valve cover and run it! After you replace the timing belt, that is. According to your mileage count, it's due for replacement.
Same for the oilpan-- why remove it? The bottom end on these engines is very robust. Really, the most common problems these engines encounter are:
1. Overheating warps the cylinder head;
2. Crank pulley not tightened to spec, loosens and causes piston/valve interference;
3. TB failure, causes piston/valve interference.
4. Running non- full synthetic motor oil wears the rings excessively.
One thing we have started to notice is that cars that have been driven delicately and for low miles tend not to fare as well. Might be due to high ratio of warmup cycles to overall miles, never really getting the chance to fully warm up.