1wykdmk8
LvC Dues Collector
Have you ever seen this before......and do you think this is the reason that my motor will not run??
Hmmmm....could this be my problem.....
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mespock
Marxists - Socialists
1wykdmk8 said:
I'd have to say yes... especially if there is now motor in it like nothing to go with this thread LOL.... What did you forget Ray.
MonsterMark
Dedicated LVC Member
You don't have alot of luck, do you Ray? Sorry to see that.
JC1994
Dedicated LVC Member
Ooops!!!
BlackMark8Li
Well-Known LVC Member
that happened to me in my 93 mark.. Had it fixed for less than 400. my car ran like total crap, never stopped running tho, got it fixed before that happened. That was the most expensive fix for that car in the 30,000 miles of driving it like I was in nascar.
driller
Dedicated LVC Member
What a bummer! :Bang
Good luck! (I think you could use it!) :wrench
Good luck! (I think you could use it!) :wrench
94m5
Dmaup's Daddy
Sorry Ray
I may have some of those followers laying around. Let me know, and I'll hunt them down.
Mike
I may have some of those followers laying around. Let me know, and I'll hunt them down.
Mike
ONEBADMK8
Dedicated LVC Member
Is that the noise we were talking about yesterday on the phone?
1wykdmk8
LvC Dues Collector
No Geno, that is not the noise that I was talkin to you about on Friday.
Basically, if anyone remembers, about a year or so ago I swapped motors because I had found out that I had a fouled head on the passenger side of the motor that was in the car when I originally purchased it. Someone at some time had stripped out the boss for the spark plug and JB-welded the spark plug into the hole. So, I purchased a motor from a junk yard and swapped them out. After about 3 or 4 months the motor developed the noise that I was talkin to you (Geno) about and I thought it was something that I had done. I raced someone and never shifted it out of 1 and ran the RPM's up pretty high. Soon after that I heard that noise. It could have been there for some time, but since I have a system in the car, and I have the remote starter on it, I was never close enuf to the car to hear the noise when it started, or while it was running, I could not hear it cause of the system.
So, I took the car off of the road over a year ago and have not driven it. Mostly because at the time I was jobless/moneyless, and could not get it fixed. I finally got a job and took the aforementioned head to a local shop to get the spark plug boss helicoiled. It was repaired and I put it back on the motor, and then swapped the motor that was originally in the car when it was purchased back into it. So, I have the original motor in, and the junk yard motor out of the car (the one that was makin the noise that I was talkin to Geno about on Friday). I tried to start the motor after replacing it, and heard a HORRIBLE sound from inside it.
I was concerned that I did not time the replaced head correctly and that it was going to cause a problem......well, as you can see it the pix above that my concern was not for not. While trying to start the car, the rocker arm broke....as you can see in the above pix.
Now, I talked to Geno, and several other Mark VIII ppl, and they all came to the same conclusion. Of course, each time that I spoke to someone, more information was thought of and with more information it gave more conclusion to what Geno had said that what the problem was with the motor that was from the junk yard. Geno had told me that it was most likely the valve tappets that were the problem. And, after talkin to several other ppl (again of course with me remembering more info on the engine from the junk yard......like it had sat for a while) they all came to the same conclusion.
Basically, with the motor sittin in the junk yard for so long, the valve tappets lost some of their tension and was allowing the rocker arm (not the engine with the broken one in the above pix) were slapping around inside the head making the noise that I had described to Geno. So, what I did was rip all of the valve tappets out of the motor with the broken rocker arm and placed them inside the motor that I got from the junk yard.
I have the broken rocker arm motor out of the car (AGAIN!!!!) and have the junkn yard motor ready to go back in. So, today I should have the motor in and hopefully running......with NO noise, and again have a Mark VIII to drive.
Hope that helps explain my situation a bit......MANY thanx, by the way, to Geno for allowing me to constantly call him with my damn problems with this and other things.
Basically, if anyone remembers, about a year or so ago I swapped motors because I had found out that I had a fouled head on the passenger side of the motor that was in the car when I originally purchased it. Someone at some time had stripped out the boss for the spark plug and JB-welded the spark plug into the hole. So, I purchased a motor from a junk yard and swapped them out. After about 3 or 4 months the motor developed the noise that I was talkin to you (Geno) about and I thought it was something that I had done. I raced someone and never shifted it out of 1 and ran the RPM's up pretty high. Soon after that I heard that noise. It could have been there for some time, but since I have a system in the car, and I have the remote starter on it, I was never close enuf to the car to hear the noise when it started, or while it was running, I could not hear it cause of the system.
So, I took the car off of the road over a year ago and have not driven it. Mostly because at the time I was jobless/moneyless, and could not get it fixed. I finally got a job and took the aforementioned head to a local shop to get the spark plug boss helicoiled. It was repaired and I put it back on the motor, and then swapped the motor that was originally in the car when it was purchased back into it. So, I have the original motor in, and the junk yard motor out of the car (the one that was makin the noise that I was talkin to Geno about on Friday). I tried to start the motor after replacing it, and heard a HORRIBLE sound from inside it.
I was concerned that I did not time the replaced head correctly and that it was going to cause a problem......well, as you can see it the pix above that my concern was not for not. While trying to start the car, the rocker arm broke....as you can see in the above pix.
Now, I talked to Geno, and several other Mark VIII ppl, and they all came to the same conclusion. Of course, each time that I spoke to someone, more information was thought of and with more information it gave more conclusion to what Geno had said that what the problem was with the motor that was from the junk yard. Geno had told me that it was most likely the valve tappets that were the problem. And, after talkin to several other ppl (again of course with me remembering more info on the engine from the junk yard......like it had sat for a while) they all came to the same conclusion.
Basically, with the motor sittin in the junk yard for so long, the valve tappets lost some of their tension and was allowing the rocker arm (not the engine with the broken one in the above pix) were slapping around inside the head making the noise that I had described to Geno. So, what I did was rip all of the valve tappets out of the motor with the broken rocker arm and placed them inside the motor that I got from the junk yard.
I have the broken rocker arm motor out of the car (AGAIN!!!!) and have the junkn yard motor ready to go back in. So, today I should have the motor in and hopefully running......with NO noise, and again have a Mark VIII to drive.
Hope that helps explain my situation a bit......MANY thanx, by the way, to Geno for allowing me to constantly call him with my damn problems with this and other things.
Markviiiedrea
Speed Bump
my old collage prof allways said " so what if you find metal in your oil, you should only wory if you can read a part nummber"
BlackIceLSC
Dedicated LVC Member
been there/done that.
Finding this:
led us to this:
Upon doing that, we did this:
so we decided to install 2 slightly used heads like this:
which meant I had to learn all of this:
But, when all was said and done, we ended back up with this;
so we could put it back in like this:
and a few hours later, we had this:
Finding this:
led us to this:
Upon doing that, we did this:
so we decided to install 2 slightly used heads like this:
which meant I had to learn all of this:
But, when all was said and done, we ended back up with this;
so we could put it back in like this:
and a few hours later, we had this: