Rod bolt torque after inspection
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Yes those nice rectangular dents in piston say broken ring to me. Almost looks like piece is still imbedded in piston. Take a magnet across the dents and see where it sticks. I've seen this before haha. I'd also peer under the valves of that cylinder and see if the pieces beat up the valve seats at all on their way out.
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Thanks for the offer on the ring sets!
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I have not gotten the piston out yet. I've been splitting my time on work, home, kids/remote school, all that. At lunchtime I went and got the pan off and timing cover off, removed the timing set and cam. The inside was pretty clean looking. While I was at it, I took a magnet to the top of the piston. There's for sure some metal on the top of the piston. If I have time, I'll yank the piston and rod tonight and get pictures.
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Ouch...
Bearings don’t look too bad. The two forward mains looked like some trash went through it (single wear line opposite the grooves shell) but the rest look okay. Crank seems happy.
This block has a lot of corrosion on the outside. It seems solid but it definitely went through a lightening phase. Hoping machine shop will give it the okay. The insides look great and outside of the one piston, the rest look almost new.
Bearings don’t look too bad. The two forward mains looked like some trash went through it (single wear line opposite the grooves shell) but the rest look okay. Crank seems happy.
This block has a lot of corrosion on the outside. It seems solid but it definitely went through a lightening phase. Hoping machine shop will give it the okay. The insides look great and outside of the one piston, the rest look almost new.
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Damn is right!
I asked around... no one has really seen one that bad. It's amazing the thing was still running well. Had I never took the head off, I wouldn't have known!
I asked around... no one has really seen one that bad. It's amazing the thing was still running well. Had I never took the head off, I wouldn't have known!
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I don’t like doing things half assed so it’s down to the bare block. Everything else looks great so I’m going to carry it over to the machine shop Monday to give everything a once over. I’m going measure bores, rods, etc over the weekend. It looks like I can get away with a hone and deck, swap the piston and install new rod bolts/resizing if needed.
If I can get around to it later tonight, I’ll grab pics of the rest of the bearings and the piston/rod assemblies.
If I can get around to it later tonight, I’ll grab pics of the rest of the bearings and the piston/rod assemblies.