New head or rebuild...

[Majin]

I finally got my car into my garage last week, Was working on it yesterday and have the intake manifold, valve cover, and other things removed already. It was my timing belt that went out since I can see it is broke into 2 and I have 1 broken rocker arm on cylinder#4 on the intake side. Everything else from what I can see looks ok. If I were to rebuild the head do I only need the rocker arms, springs, and valves?

[JoeMadoo]

I would get it checked out just in case, make sure its straight and have the shop to a compression test.

[Starmavin]

(The voice of experience)

If you are going to rebuild, get rid of all the rocker arms! The ones that didn't break are stressed and aluminum doesn't like stress. Sooner or later they'll break and when they do you HAVE to pull the head to change them. It isn't worth the risk. I'm sure someone will come one here and tell you I'm wrong and how they went with out changing all of them. I can tell you after fixing 5 motors with broken arms after someone rebuilt the head, that it's luck they are riding on....

[saltshaker185]

Originally Posted by Starmavin

(The voice of experience)

If you are going to rebuild, get rid of all the rocker arms! The ones that didn't break are stressed and aluminum doesn't like stress. Sooner or later they'll break and when they do you HAVE to pull the head to change them. It isn't worth the risk. I'm sure someone will come one here and tell you I'm wrong and how they went with out changing all of them. I can tell you after fixing 5 motors with broken arms after someone rebuilt the head, that it's luck they are riding on....

haha the voice of experience... listen to this guy... he knows what hes talking about, this kinda sounds like your listening to some godly figure haha

[triggrhaapi]

my motor is almost exactly identical in terms of what went wrong and I'm saving the trouble and just replacing the head.