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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 11-June 23 From: Utah Member No.: 27,409 Region Association: Rocky Mountains ![]() ![]() |
Yesterday just before getting home I heard a click from the engine then again. It wasn't steady, just every little bit I would hear it. I could feel that I lost power and it even stalled once at a stop light. Since I was only a couple block from home I just keep going.
I found that cylinder 3 could only produce 20 lbs of compression. A leak down test was 22% with most air coming out of the intake. For reference the other cylinders were 100 to 105 compression and the leak down was 18% to 20% with air noticed just in the oil filler hole. I don't know how accurate my testing tools are since they are cheap ones I got from amazon and harbor freight. I took off of my valve cover for cylinders 3 and 4 and with cylinder 3 at TDC I have over 1/2 inch of play with both valves and the pushrods are of course way loose. I haven't removed the rockers to pull the pushrods out yet to see if they are bent. I will do that after I pulling the engine either tomorrow or this weekend. How screwed am I? Thoughts on best and worse case? Here's a video of my loose rocker Video of rockers |
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 11-June 23 From: Utah Member No.: 27,409 Region Association: Rocky Mountains ![]() ![]() |
Thanks for all the information.
I've only had the car 10 months so I don't have all the info on the engine. The did give me the receipts for maintenance they had. The heads were redone in 2011 by Foreign Auto parts & Service in ST George, UT. What I've found today after removing the engine and the tin around the head, the one of the rocker bolts appears to have blown out. A look through the spark plug hole shows nothing shinny but I'll see more when my scope comes. The valve pushrods are fine. I've got to research how this happened and if it can be repaired. Attached thumbnail(s) ![]() ![]() |
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