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Wut?
Ok so heres a weird done. My engine (95 4.3 vortec) while I was accelerating I heard a boom and something started rattling and felt like the engine through a rod. Turned it off, tryed to start it and it would turn over then lock up. Well, I just now got a chance to look at it (had the new engine put in about a year ago) and I pulled the oil pan off to take a look, everything looks fine. I can turn the crankshaft and it all turns fine. Whats up? No thrown rod or anything broken but it locked up back then????
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could have been a stuck valve. was there any metal in the pan?
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Take and remove the plugs and see if the engine will turn over.Also check for debris inside the cylinders.Seems to me theres a ring that broke on the piston.Not to give you bad news but you may end up needing major engine repair or replacement.I agree with twip a suspected dropped valve could be the problem also.
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I think he replaced it already, so a R&R was already done.
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No metal in the pan, everything's clean. (its on an engine stand) I had it replaced a year ago I'm just now starting to rebuild the old one. I'll take the heads off and see if a valve broke.
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So I got the heads off today and nothing was in the cylinders and the heads were fine... What else could that have been?
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Hemm very strange seems to me you have look in all the places where the noise could have came from.Did the engine lose oil pressure when this happened?The only thing I would now suspect is that the distributor shaft broke the connector that connects to the oil pump shaft.
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Did not loose oil pressure and the distributor shaft did not break... baffles me too
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This engine has a balance shaft my last and only suggestion would be to have a look at the bearings that hold in a place.
Also have you taken the timing chain cover off and had a look inside there?Maybe the chain has slipped or the gears have broken a tooth /teeth off. Ohter than Im out of ideas except to replace the engine.Good luck let us know what you find. |
Timing chain and gears are fine. Still don't know. Going to call my mechanic who swapped out motors and ask what he thinks.
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