About a month ago, I let a friend drive my car because I was incapacitated at the time.
this led to Tom Foolery and the hooning began as I was egging it on from the passenger seat.
The friend being unfamiliar with the 6MT gearing, not knowing which RPM at which speed to be in at the perfect gear and most likely over-revv'd the engine.
we woke up the next morning to a funny idle. sounded like the car was cammed.
"lope lope lope lope lope"
Sounded coool!!!! but I knew what happened.
performance was lost and the car just wasnt as smooth any more.
since I knew I had lost compression somewhere; i skipped the leak down and compression test.
I then got in contact with Yungone501 to score J37 heads from the 07-09 MDX coupled with the 07-08 TL-S cams.
After securing the parts; I started to tear down the engine.
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I got this far by myself and then I was stuck.
I was stuck on the crank pulley bolt...
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I was stuck for maybe a week and a half.
last night, I decided to try my luck with it.
I pried and pried with all my might.
the breaker bar ended up kicking back on me and I decided I was done for the night.
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I invited a friend over this morning to help tackle the crank bolt.
as he reached for the breaker bar attached to the crank bolt, he let out a little laugh.
"its already loosened fool"
apparently, I had broken the bolt loose last night when it kicked back at me.
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heads are off!!
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you can see where the piston hit the exhaust valves.
it's like this for all six pistons.
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J32 heads.
this is where I ended for today.
this led to Tom Foolery and the hooning began as I was egging it on from the passenger seat.
The friend being unfamiliar with the 6MT gearing, not knowing which RPM at which speed to be in at the perfect gear and most likely over-revv'd the engine.
we woke up the next morning to a funny idle. sounded like the car was cammed.
"lope lope lope lope lope"
Sounded coool!!!! but I knew what happened.
performance was lost and the car just wasnt as smooth any more.
since I knew I had lost compression somewhere; i skipped the leak down and compression test.
I then got in contact with Yungone501 to score J37 heads from the 07-09 MDX coupled with the 07-08 TL-S cams.
After securing the parts; I started to tear down the engine.
I got this far by myself and then I was stuck.
I was stuck on the crank pulley bolt...
I was stuck for maybe a week and a half.
last night, I decided to try my luck with it.
I pried and pried with all my might.
the breaker bar ended up kicking back on me and I decided I was done for the night.
I invited a friend over this morning to help tackle the crank bolt.
as he reached for the breaker bar attached to the crank bolt, he let out a little laugh.
"its already loosened fool"
apparently, I had broken the bolt loose last night when it kicked back at me.
heads are off!!
you can see where the piston hit the exhaust valves.
it's like this for all six pistons.
J32 heads.
this is where I ended for today.