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So I Jay Ayala and I pulled the heads from the white 98 2.5 that I bought a couple of weeks ago. There was coolant in the cylinders. The Wife and I have decided that we will purchase a re-maunfactured engine but from whom ? We really want to have some reliability and a warranty. I live in Portland Oregon and would like to find a shop that does re-manufactured and stands behind there product. Meaning the last shop I got my other re-manufactured from came with a 3year / unlimited miles. Before everyone asks " Why don't you buy another engine from them ?". The reason is simple. They are a great engine machine shop in terms of facilities , etc. However they do not build these 3.5's that often . So it was a learning curve for them and we had words more than once. There were issues with head gaskets to start after the first install. I pushed on the issue and came to find out that they did not use OEM or Felpro like asked when I put the order in. Because of there lack of attention to detail I paid the price and had to have the motor ripped into again. Several months later on a trip back from Montana with the wife a piston on the left side decided to come loose a bit and clanking around making all kinds of noises and that was fun to drive back 8 hours and listen to. That time the entire motor had to come out and things were not put back in a proper way. Meaning o-rings were reused for water inlet and crossover and made me look for a coolant leak. It drove me nuts and then had other issues related to wiring because somebody did not remember to keep wires off the egr for example . Not to mention all the rental cars , etc and fighting about warranties and so on. We are trying to avoid this issue.
I will keep the motor that's in it now to rebuild at another date. Turbo or Super Charger ???
So I am looking to hear if anyone has a lead on a good shop in the NW, California, else where?
Will use the right gaskets , OEM or Felpro
Machine work percise
3year / 100,000 or unlimited within that 3 year period
Thx for reading
So I Jay Ayala and I pulled the heads from the white 98 2.5 that I bought a couple of weeks ago. There was coolant in the cylinders. The Wife and I have decided that we will purchase a re-maunfactured engine but from whom ? We really want to have some reliability and a warranty. I live in Portland Oregon and would like to find a shop that does re-manufactured and stands behind there product. Meaning the last shop I got my other re-manufactured from came with a 3year / unlimited miles. Before everyone asks " Why don't you buy another engine from them ?". The reason is simple. They are a great engine machine shop in terms of facilities , etc. However they do not build these 3.5's that often . So it was a learning curve for them and we had words more than once. There were issues with head gaskets to start after the first install. I pushed on the issue and came to find out that they did not use OEM or Felpro like asked when I put the order in. Because of there lack of attention to detail I paid the price and had to have the motor ripped into again. Several months later on a trip back from Montana with the wife a piston on the left side decided to come loose a bit and clanking around making all kinds of noises and that was fun to drive back 8 hours and listen to. That time the entire motor had to come out and things were not put back in a proper way. Meaning o-rings were reused for water inlet and crossover and made me look for a coolant leak. It drove me nuts and then had other issues related to wiring because somebody did not remember to keep wires off the egr for example . Not to mention all the rental cars , etc and fighting about warranties and so on. We are trying to avoid this issue.
I will keep the motor that's in it now to rebuild at another date. Turbo or Super Charger ???
So I am looking to hear if anyone has a lead on a good shop in the NW, California, else where?
Will use the right gaskets , OEM or Felpro
Machine work percise
3year / 100,000 or unlimited within that 3 year period
Thx for reading
