Well I finally got the engine to the machine shop today. bad news is that they are not going to start working on it untill the end of next week. He is swamped with work. Oh well whats another 2 weeks? Today was the forst time I really got a good look at our engine out of the car. I noticed that it looks like I blew my head gasket. I might not even have any piston damage after all. There was a lot of oil on the back of the block near the corner where the gasket finally gave out. And all this time I thought it was my oil sending unit "T" fitting that was leaking. I ordered $400 worth of parts today from mitsubishi. I got the waterpump, timing belt, tensioner pulley(with bracket), idler pulley, head over haul gasket set, valve seals, and new heater hoses. I am spending a lot of money doing all of this at once. The good thing is the engine is going to be totaly new becuase just about everything is getting replaced. The machine shop is very expensive too. Here are some prices....
Ass you can see it is very expensive to get machine shop work done around here. I checked a few places and most are about the same price. This place is supposed to be one of the best around though so I guess its worth it. I estimate this entire rebuild to cost a little more than $3000 with parts and labor. I am not really mad about spending all the money on it but I am mad about all the down time. I REALLY MISS MY CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
