01 focus sohc dead cylinder

[barteldt]

not sure what to do here. i have a 2001 with the dreaded sohc engine. it first devolped a leak in the exhaust manifold and now i have no compression in #4 cylinder. the others are fine this motor ran great up until now used no oil good starter etc, someone said i probably either broke or cracked a ring. bottom line what would it take to fix this motor again, i was told about 1500 to rebuild the top half of motor and a junkyard motor is $1300. could i just have #4 redone or just new rings installed?? The car is worthless right now and id really like to fix it if its possible

[Davescort97]

As many others have found, you have dropped a valve seat into the combustion chamber of the # 4 cylinder on your 2L SOHC SPI. Usually when this happens when the dropped seat gets between the valve and seat or between the piston and head. A rebuilt head is about $500 to $700 then the labor added to get it back on. A used engine will be about $1000 with the labor included in that. You absolutely right about what it is worth now. Been there myself. Sorry to hear it again.

[barteldt]

Originally Posted by Davescort97

As many others have found, you have dropped a valve seat into the combustion chamber of the # 4 cylinder on your 2L SOHC SPI. Usually when this happens when the dropped seat gets between the valve and seat or between the piston and head. A rebuilt head is about $500 to $700 then the labor added to get it back on. A used engine will be about $1000 with the labor included in that. You absolutely right about what it is worth now. Been there myself. Sorry to hear it again.

is the sohc very hard to remove and install ive changed motors before but last one was in a 93 metro.