Help with Geo Tracker Crankshaft

JamesG · Feb 10, 2016

It was just a dust cover while I finished the gearbox. You're the first to ever pick on me for that BTW. Congrats!

Oh and I second that the quickest and easiest way is to have the crankend keyway welded up and machined. Any decent shop can do it. The hard part is finding that decent shop that will do a quality job.

8675309 · Feb 10, 2016

5 bills for a crank is too steep. There are better
options,like finding a good donor/parts truck.

letusbuyyourcar · Feb 10, 2016

mr.biglesworth said:
^^^brah,you got a
F-riggin'
r-uined
a-nother
m-otor
oil filter on there, if we've learned anything from
the other threads posted,only sheltered breeder
home depot shoppers use them.

i like the way you built your benches btw.

Well I guess the Fram filters are suitable for " Solvent Traps" provided you get the right threaded fittings for all your guns. But don't let them catch you with a bullet hole in the end of your Solvent Trap. :spy:

letusbuyyourcar · Feb 10, 2016

JamesG said:
Nyet. ALL of the Suzuki 8 Valve I4 motors are the same. Suzuki Sidekick (rebadged as your Tracker), the Swift, Metro, etc. Any of those cranks, heck, the entire engine will cost less than $500.

These are actually fun, easy little engines to work on.

Well we already sourced a new crank out of Jacksonville for $300.00 with a $125.00 core. And I was told not to expect the core charge back. But I'm taking the glass half full view on it. Now it will be rebuilt with bead blasted block, resurfaced head and new timing components. I could probably score another newer Tracker/Sidekick for around $500.00 less give or take. But most of what I've found is either in Jacksonville or above Atlanta. Most of them are 2WD too. And there are cleaner ones out there but again they're further away and some of them are up in the $5,000 range. I wouldn't pay that for one even if I could.

JamesG · Feb 10, 2016

Careful. "Cheap" old cars reproduce like rabbits.

Here is some Trackick motor porn from my build.

How it started. One foot in the junk yard (notice the Fram it came with).