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1986 V8 302 5.0l EFI motor w/ manual trans

He hasn’t gotten me an exact quote yet. Basically what happened is the valves were gummed up, due to what I can see as just neglect. The valve(s) would stick and then you’d get an explosion causing back fire sounds pretty scary when it does that lol. Anyway he recommended pulling the housing, throttle body? Out and sending them to be redone then once the cylinders are good new valves, rocket arms etc. he quoted out a Jasper crate motor for 2450 plus labor 100k mile 3 yr warranty. Idk what to do honestly, thinking about trying to source a motor.

tryna to get the biggest bang for buck, not wanting to spend 4K on a motor/install. The rebuild sounds like a interesting idea

*rocker arms (that could have been a phone type-o)

If the valves are sticking, the first thing is do is run a task of gas with fuel injector cleaner through the engine (change the fuel filter first).

I had a 1985 V6 with EFI in the mid 1990s. Didn't know a ton about cars back then. My mechanic at the time commented that "they didn't really have EFI figured out when they built these motors"