I'm riffing on this recent thread:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/3b-voltage-question-yes-another.1290280/
Similar but different.
Truck wasn't driven for a few months. Started driving and noticed dash voltage was low. Car driving fine I ignored it until a week later the charge buzzer...
Hi Everyone. I finally get to close the loop on this. Wow checking the date it really did take an entire year from beginning to end. Would have been forever if not for the grace and competence of Torfab in Everett, WA.
I called them for advice and they recommended that I find a better engine...
Exhaust flow seemed fine. No muffler, its a turbo'd 3b. No rodent sign that I can spot.
I ordered a used motor from... a bad seller... that is across the country. Ordered in november the motor arrived at mechanic 2 weeks ago, a day after my mechanic appointment. The ordered motor had scars in...
I have the manual. Have looked at what i need to do. what i dont know if its reasonable for me to tackle. Especially given cost of a different engine.
my understanding is that valves are irrelevant to blowby. Fix for rings means removing the head at which point its money for parts and machining...
Three weeks, about 700 miles. Blowby smoke is still embarrassingly bad. Power seems fine.
Not burning any oil.
What is involved in fixing this? Is it something a regular dummy could reasonably do? Rebuild is incredibly expensive. Starting to think i need to either:
- find a different engine
-...
I have wilson switches. Never used superglow. Super simple. Dont see a place for an 80s electromechanical computer in my life. I'd definately do that first.
About the starter. One truck was getting really sluggish turnover. I checked all grounds, replaced the old batteries and it was still a 1...
I removed glow plugs recently to apply a chemical prayer to my hopefully carbonized rings. Motor has bad blowby.
After buttoning everything up the truck didnt want to start. Debugging this motor was so simple... Smoke means there is fuel, there is air... Uh... The thing i touched? Glowplugs...
Not talking about fuel system. Used top end cleaner directly in cylinders to try and soften carbon in rings.
Added seafoam today to oil and an hour of driving.
How long until oil needs changing? Should i change the oil filter?
Ok... I'd driven the car around for 20 minutes after the oil change on thursday. Took maybe 15 seconds of cranking to start, sputtered a bit but then drove fine. Blowby was maybe a bit better at the end of the drive but still not like it was.
Yesterday I needed to head into town. Cranked and...
This acdelco stuff smelled like a really poisonous version of gasoline. Because of the toxic warning above and the possibility of it being messy, I wore my paint suit, goggles and my respirator with its old cartridge. Best protection I have. I only got a slight wiff of it when I was done.
I...
drove the few miles to the Chevy dealer. Got something called top end cleaner. Guy at the desk said it’s what all the other dealership mechanics come to buy... Volvo, Audi, Porsche. Is toxic. I stayed well away but the slight whiffs I got it didn’t smell like creeping death of por15.
Anyway...
Ok. I like these answers. FWIW: It doesn't sound like its firing on 3 cylinders. Revs fine but wow lots of white/brown smoke out of the blowby tube.
Valves can't do this can they? I've not adjusted them... ever.
That ac delco stuff... I don't like toxic stuff. Too much exposure in the past...
Like 4 5 mile drives on two days. Then I drove it 30 miles on the freeway and no difference. Then 30 miles home with the mystery oil. No difference.
The puffing is worse than any videos I’ve seen of blowby. Weird that power isn’t crazy bad.
Should also mention the truck sat for a few months this winter. The issue seemed to occur right away after I started driving it again. I think maybe on the first drive.
I was sitting at a stoplight and noticed a bunch of smoke from around the right front. Pulled over and opened hood, the tiny pipe I call The Blowby Pipe is smoking like a chimney. Open oil fill cap and same deal, huge pulses and smoke coming out. The radiator was a little low, like 4oz, and...
Yeah I believe they do a good job. Big shop floor full of tables and tools. They did my alternator(s) after another shop couldn’t make any progress in 2 weeks. Guy said the bj60 alternator is one of the rarest but the weirdest stuff they see are off the ancient motors in armored cars- everything...