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Patience is a virtue!Dropped my engine off on Tuesday. I was like a kid in a candy store, V-10's everywhere, Vipers, trucks, engines. Bad new is 8 -10 week turnaround.
Dropped my engine off on Tuesday. I was like a kid in a candy store, V-10's everywhere, Vipers, trucks, engines. Bad new is 8 -10 week turnaround.
Here we go again with Kiwi still humping the Fords and Monaros lol!!!!Maybe the electromagnetic force dragged the earth strap to the source
So far I've checked all the rockers, can't find anything unusual. I put a scope in all cylinders (except #9, very hard to get at) and again don't see anything wrong. The only thing I found is a bad spark plug, don't know how it happened. It's wasn't really damaged, but the ground strap was touching the electrode, very strange.View attachment 65019
I was worried and checking with Stinker and other people as to why it did that .. was looking into rebuilding and everything .. so figure had nothing to loose installing another new spark plug . And it worked out for me .. I didn’t find anything else that could have shown something else was messed up .. that would stink if it was . Stinker is always very helpful from day 1 one here .. No idea how he’s doing now .. Been out of the loop for to long .Hopefully it's simple like yours was
Same here I just checked in here a few weeks ago after a long time! Haven't seen many on here sinceI was worried and checking with Stinker and other people as to why it did that .. was looking into rebuilding and everything .. so figure had nothing to loose installing another new spark plug . And it worked out for me .. I didn’t find anything else that could have shown something else was messed up .. that would stink if it was . Stinker is always very helpful from day 1 one here .. No idea how he’s doing now .. Been out of the loop for to long .
Reminds me of one of my 340 dusters year ago … a piece of the Thermo quad linkage got sucked into the engine ,, made a racket .. so in the mid of winter and snow I go outside and pulled it apart and found nothing , but the piston look just like your pic . Put it back together and never had a problem .. but damn it was cold doing that . But hell I’ve always been a gluten for punishment.. did the same in the snow with my girlfriends car replacing the oil pump .. would have been easier to just have replaced her lolView attachment 65045 View attachment 65046 Got a bunch of pictures back from my engine builder. As I already knew, it definitely swallowed something (still don't know what it was or where it came from). They also found 8 worn rockers & pushrods, all will be replaced. Luckily the heads will be fine with a small cut.
To funny!Reminds me of one of my 340 dusters year ago … a piece of the Thermo quad linkage got sucked into the engine ,, made a racket .. so in the mid of winter and snow I go outside and pulled it apart and found nothing , but the piston look just like your pic . Put it back together and never had a problem .. but damn it was cold doing that . But hell I’ve always been a gluten for punishment.. did the same in the snow with my girlfriends car replacing the oil pump .. would have been easier to just have replaced her lol
Never happen! I don’t want to destroy the environment.. I believe in the Prius with its switch hitter gas to electric fo my golf cart hahaMakes ya want to give in and go ELECTRIC!
JUST KIDDING. I hope it all works out for you
That’s a Ronnie call ,, where are you Ronnie hahahaStill waiting on my rebuilt engine, supply chain problems getting parts. They finally have everything and it should be going together this week (it's been 12 weeks). While the motor is out, thought it would be a good time to address a trans issue. Every once in a while when comming off the highway, when slowing down, the engins wants to stall. I think the converter is not unlocking. Can anyone recomment a new torque converter? I already had installed a new TCC solenoid (I know it does not mean its good). How about trans fluid, +4 or Dex?