From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 18:50:33 PDT
Caleb,
Be careful with this one, the keeper on the top of the
valve may not have gotten enough oil while this was
going on.
That is if it is the same style as the valves on the
350 cu.in. gas engines. If that keeper is worn it may
come loose and let the valve drop into the cylinder.
I'm not sure of what I'm talking about here with the
diesel but you may want to check it anyway.
Joe
--- Caleb Pal <m1009@defcon-3.net> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Well its all fixed. Long story. I called the
> mechanic yesterday, and he said
> the rings were bad. He said he did a leak down and
> that was the results, air
> coming out the crankcase. He taped both the intake
> and the exaust. I think
> this may have provided false results. Anyways, when
> I was talking to him, I
> asked him how long it would take to pull the valve
> cover. He said 2 hrs. I
> asked him to do it. He refused, and said the leak
> down told him everything
> he needed to know. I was very fustrated, as a leak
> down and compression test
> took him a week and a half. He said it would need a
> new long block or short
> block. I thought "BS" in my head, and went down
> there late last night after
> my night class, and pulled the valve cover. Took me
> and a friend about an
> hour. As soon as I got it off, I nooticed something.
> The shaft that the rear
> 4 rockers rock on, the tube that goes down the
> middle of the head, is held
> in by 2 bolts. The bolt near the rear, or #7 piston,
> the one that had lost
> compression, was loose. The bolt had worked itself
> out, and was cauing this
> metal tube to bounce up and down and cause the
> clicking noise I heard. This
> made the valves on #7 not work correctly. I
> tightened it, hooked the
> injector lines back up, and it ran fine. I left the
> valve cover off, drove a
> very short distance to the fire station I live at,
> and put a new valve cover
> gasket on. Put everything back together, and a few
> things happened. First,
> it seems to be fine. I seemed to get rid of a slight
> tick I have had for
> almost a year, I think. Second, it sounds like its
> running nice, with a nice
> rumble at higher RPM's. This seems to cause a very
> slight high speed
> vibration, at higher RPM's. I am not sure if this it
> good or bad. I have a
> feeling it might have been loose for a very long
> time, and when it broke
> down, the bolt finally loosened itself enough to
> cause major troubles. I
> will let you guys know how it turns out in the next
> few weeks. Second, I
> drove it back to shop last night, parked it, and
> this morning came in and
> told them I was taking it somewhere else, and wanted
> to settle up. $242 for
> a compression check and a leak down. And a false
> diag. I was not happy. They
> did not know I had fixed it. I waited till the
> service manager got back, and
> explained everything that had happened. He
> immediately dropped all service
> charges. So that fiasco is over. A big thanks to
> everyone on the list who
> helped out!
>
> Caleb
>
>
>
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