Engine rebuild or engine change? big dilemma....

[miiser]

If you maintained you engine properly stick with it. First of all you know your engine. You know what it's been up with.
A used engine is a very big risk. You don't know how many miles has made. The seller will might told you 100.000 for example. But you can't be sure. There is nothing that can show you how many miles has made for sure. Also you don't know if its maintained properly, or if the owner was taking care of the engine (not high revs or driving like crazy all day etc)
Secondly I don't think that swapping to a newer engine will be easy. I think you will need a new gearbox aswell.

To sum up, if you maintained your engine properly and you were taking care of her, keep your engine and just fix the issues. But this requires a good mechanic. He must be an expert on his job. Rebuild an engine is not that simple as it looks.

But anyways, personally I strongly believe that you have to keep your engine.
I have made engine swap in 2 of my older cars. It didn't went that well. The first one was an Alfa Romeo (yes the most unreliable cars in the world :p ). I had many strange noises coming out from the <<new>> engine. I only kept it for 5 months after the engine swap. Then I bought a new car.
The second car I had to swap an engine was a Nissan vanette (a van). The engine that I had put in, was burning oil like crazy. And then, water went in into the cylinders. That was the end of that.
(And keep in mind that I had properly maintained both of them)


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