It does kind of sound like a tractor but waaaay cooler! Those rockers are loud! Wow. Congrats on getting it running!
C'mon now,......there's a timing light laying on top of the engine.What's the blue flash on the rear passenger side of the engine? It looks like spark is jumping around.
Now that you have it running, what's the plan for the cam break in run I remember reading about?
and on this one, you get to hear what I sound like as well.
We were way up,
Andddd now we're back doexperienceds never ending.
Pulled Medusa off to get coated, and didn't like what I found.
There was an oil leak coming from the back of the engine somewhere and w/ the exhaust manifold in place, couldn't make out whether or not it was the oil sender, the cover plate, or the dipstick tube fitting ( all on the driver's side of the engine).All I could tell for sure was that it was dripping pretty decently coming off the back of the crossover water hose that I will fix once I got Medusa removed.
Turns out though that the oil leak is coming from the rear of the head on the exhaust side of the head, running down the block, and dripping off at the lowest point of the hose.
(Clearly,....I also must've missed that area w/ the Hylomar when I had the HG off) Only this time, there's no easy to remove water pump block off plate to expose some magic, unplugged hole.
That isn't even the part that concerns me.
This is:
That's Number 1 wet with engine oil. Spark plug was equally wet. The brownish splatter you see around the plug hole is a little water that must've ended up in the spark plug hole, and got cooked out during one of the many times it spewed water from this place or that. You can see #2 starting to color up nicely, and for the most part 3-6 look like #2, w/ #6 being a little sooty. I pulled the valve cover hoping like hell to see either a missing, or broken valve seal,..but they're there, both I and E.
I'm guessing the only thing that would cause this this early in the game is a broken oil ring?
The only other thing I guess it could be is a non-firing plug, but I had that timing light on that wire and it worked perfectly, so spark is traveling down that wire, and the engine idles decently enough for it not to be wired out of order any more.
I only have one plug that could be considered oilyOily plugs: valve seals, rings, sloppy valve guides, or lack of cc ventilation.... or, what i experienced, oil going past the turbo seals..
I had cc vent issues and that may have been what killed my chinee turbo, but it sho nuff pushed it past the seal when it backed up in the drain hose due to excessive cc pressure..
I only have one plug that could be considered oily
just did the first of the two typical cylinder pressure tests, cold cranking compression all cylinders are w/i 5-10 lbs of each other, w/ the #1, and the #6 being the highest of the bunch. Gonna leak #1 when I get home.I hate to say it, but I highly doubt that you have bad valve seals (unless of course the guide is as sloppy as a hot dog sliding down a bowling lane). I would leak the motor down first to check the ring seal.
FWIW, I don't run any valve seals on my exhaust valves and never have any oil in my cylinders.
OK, I'm no expert by any means, But what's this look like to you?
1,2,3
4,5,6
1,2,3
4,5,6.
I'll tell ya what I think:
Water.
The last time I saw an engine this nasty, it had blown a HG. I think that water may have gotten into the chamber through that damn hole that water was running out the front of, and was actually getting into the engine that way. I think maybe reversion sucked some of it out of one, and redistributed to some of the other cylinders via the intake, as cylinders 1-5 show signs of water cleaning the piston. For what ever reason, 6 (the one that I said was all sooty)clearly didn't partake from the supply. I don't have any other guesses as to how it got there, but i do know this:
I am 100% NOT gonna put this piece of junk HG back on the engine.
It goes to Cometic in the morning.