I have an old 5000 CS sitting on my lawn. It dropped an exhaust valve 8 or 10 years ago. I had a spare engine that I was working on, but ran out of money and couldn't finish. Now I'm not sure what to do with it.

I thought about parting it out on ebay, or maybe finding someone that wants to whole thing to either fix up or use as a parts donor to get another one working. Occasionally, I've even entertained ideas of swapping the head from the good motor, after fishing out the stray valve, of course.

Any ideas?

 

If it dropped a valve, it has damaged the piston. You'll have to pull the engine to fix it. I found rings and a few other things on Partsgeek.com for great prices.

I'm in the process of rebuilding the 2.3L in my 87 5000SQ and have about $400 in it. I need to do the head next. Going to replace the guides and tappets. That'll cost me another $200... But the thing lasted 287K miles and didn't break anything. The valve seals got brittle and cracked.. Smoked a little but other than that is ran fine. I didn't need to do anything to the cylinders except blob hone them to give them a good cross hatch pattern. New rings should help with the compression. I know it was down a little in that department because the rings were starting to get gunked up burning all that oil.