Tight spot rotating engine
- Thread starter Lonnie
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The truck was wrecked & the intercooler was destroyed & the tubes were ripped off before I bought the engine.
The turbo is not hurt. I disassembled it to check everything.
I'm assuming something was injested in the open intake bypassing the intercooler either during the accident or from removal.
I ran the engine with it removed from the truck with no noises. I then stripped the engine down & taped off the openings, so I highly doubt I got something in there.
From all I can determine, it never ran with this part in the engine.
The piston & head only had a small clean spot where it touched. No chewed marks in either. No marks on the valve or seat.
I'm guessing that while rolling the engine around it must have worked its way into the port & maybe dropped through an open valve while i was taking out the converter bolts, or it somehow layed in the cup of the piston & never got smashed while running (unlikely).
There was enough slime in the intake (oil & soot) to catch almost any moving part. So maybe this prevented it falling into the engine before I pulled the intake.
At least it happened the way it did before something self destructed.
Lonnie
The turbo is not hurt. I disassembled it to check everything.
I'm assuming something was injested in the open intake bypassing the intercooler either during the accident or from removal.
I ran the engine with it removed from the truck with no noises. I then stripped the engine down & taped off the openings, so I highly doubt I got something in there.
From all I can determine, it never ran with this part in the engine.
The piston & head only had a small clean spot where it touched. No chewed marks in either. No marks on the valve or seat.
I'm guessing that while rolling the engine around it must have worked its way into the port & maybe dropped through an open valve while i was taking out the converter bolts, or it somehow layed in the cup of the piston & never got smashed while running (unlikely).
There was enough slime in the intake (oil & soot) to catch almost any moving part. So maybe this prevented it falling into the engine before I pulled the intake.
At least it happened the way it did before something self destructed.
Lonnie
My luck would have never played out like that. I'd have had to buy a set of pistons, a head and rods and ....... :cool2:
I consider this intermediate luck.
Good would be, nothing ever happened,
Bad, if it blew up,
So I'll take this as intermediate.
It cost me under $150 this way for some bolts & a head gasket.
Just could not talk myself into the studs though... those are outrageously priced. If I had a big turbo, I guess it would be necessary.
Good would be, nothing ever happened,
Bad, if it blew up,
So I'll take this as intermediate.
It cost me under $150 this way for some bolts & a head gasket.
Just could not talk myself into the studs though... those are outrageously priced. If I had a big turbo, I guess it would be necessary.
