A month ago i bought a 99 black accord coupe with 122K miles on it, the guy claimed nothing was wrong with it but we found it was burning a quart of oil every 150 miles and a piston ring had fallen out and it needed a new engine.

We ended up getting the car for 500 bucks, body in perfect shape.

My brother works at a shop, we ordered a 45K engine from cali. (a japanese one) and put it in. It makes a slight whirring noise but we think that is just the new timing belt.

The real problem is that the pulley for the accessory belt/timing belt is wobbling a significant amount. We put a new pulley on and its still doing it. A friend of mine thinks that the crank shaft could have gotten bent/cracked in shipping but those things are very strong...

The place we ordered it from tests all engines before selling them and has a 6 month unlimited mile warentee...Any ideas on what the problem is?

The car runs perfectly, i've only driven it for about 20 miles cause if we end up NOT needing a new engine i dont want to mess it up before we can find out what the problem is and fix it.


Please help!