ls1beater4eva
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ok well get a good mechanical oil pressure guage and hook it up and see what u have pressure wise bc it sounds like ur not getting oilpressure up to the top end
Okay, it's late and I sorta skimmed through all of the posts but, I didn't see anyone suggest checking your valve springs! I've broken a few in the past....You might try feeling around the little buggers to see if you can feel where one cracked. When I broke mine, the car felt like she was running on 7 cylinders (it was) and when I reached up around the #4 piston's intake valve spring, voila, found the problem! FYI, you can replace them with the heads on the car...it takes a lot of patience, small hands, and requires you keeping sharp objects away whilst you are removing them....if you'd care to have detailed instructions, send me a pm....
Clay
ok thanks Foxfan88. would it help if i drained some coolant first then? and haha even the VC's took a BFH and a lot of prying and swearing just to come off (stupid cork gaskets with RTV!@#$*), so if you're warning me about this, i'm not looking forward to it! and i was due for an oil change anyways, so thats not a big deal. how much do i have to worry about stuff getting inside the engine though? i'm paranoid about even gasket material and maybe a bit of dirt just from taking off the VC's and upper already and seeing the little crap that gets in there...
Compression test and leak down test are about all you got left before the motor comes out.
ok, so with the comp. test, can it be done with how the engine sits right now? or will some stuff have to be reassembled first? rockers torqued?