you sure its not the bottom end? OK Don wrote: > This is the car that my son bought from a friend of ours, who got it > from Kaleb. It was idling rough, and blowing whitish smoke before it > got up to temp. Among other things, we found low compression in > cylinder 1. Pulled the head (a #17), saw the massive leak from #1 to > the timing chain vault, and sent the head to a local machine shop. > Turns out that the shop now only builds racing engines, but took our > job since the "head guy" was idle at the time. it took them two months > to finish the head. > > We got everything installed and hooked up this afternoon, filled it > with coolant, and tried to start it. The battery was dead. Swaped in a > good battery. Left the injection line fittings at the injectors loose, > cranked it till fuel came out, tightened them down. It started firing > on the first cylinder I tightened - was running by the time I got the > fourth one tight. I finished all of the injection lines, but it didn't > really even out like I thought it should have. > > Let it idle for quite awhile, it blew white smoke the whole time > (there are plenty of mosquitos, so I didn't mind the smoke). I wnet > down the line from #6 towards #1, loosing the injection lines, to see > which cyl. was missing. I heard/felt no difference when I loosened #2. > We let it cool down, checked the coolant level (added a little), then > started it again - it started on probably the second compression > stroke. Went for a drive - it blew plenty of white smoke in the > neighborhood. We took it out an arterial road - drove around section > line roads - 4 miles worth, with lots of floor board accelerations. It > ran smoother to longer we drove it. The white smoke stopped. > Took it home, no smoke. Let it cool while we cooked, then ate dinner. > Son went out after dinner - it's idling rough again, and blowing white > smoke. > Crap! > > So - I'm thinking injectors, or a bad cam follower. As a side note, > the machine shop did nick the upper edge of three of the cam follower > bores - had to scrape out the aluminum nicks to get the followers into > the bores. > > Any guesses here? The head was without any signs of cracks, was > milled to MB specs, got new valve guides and the valves lapped. A > couple of the pre-chambers were pretty carboned up, but they weren't > burnt like some I've seen. It has all new glow plugs, fuel lines, > seals in the lift pump, fuel thermostat, etc. > > Anyone BTDT???? >
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