Well, this has been a hell of a weekend for me. I tipped the 80 over while elk hunting on friday. Pics and details to come in chat sometime this week.
Anyway, as soon as it tipped, I shut it off, not more than 3-5 sec running on its side. By the time we walked out and I found somebody to attempt a recovery, the road had become nearly impassable to a normal person(dodge 4x4) with chains nearly got stuck so he gave up). We flipped it onto its wheels with the aid of two four wheelers and removing the bottom rear tire.
Tipped at 8 in the morning, back onto wheels at about 4 pm. temp at about 25, and snowing the whole time.
Checked all the fluids and went to start it, Batt voltage looked good, but I heard the starter engage and start to turn, but then just stopped. I figured low voltage, so we jumped it and similar thing happend except this time, after multiple tries, the starter and flywheel started grinding teeth off each other. I pulled the cover on the bellhousing and tried to turn the flywheel with a prybar, but it wouldn't go. It would turn the other way for a while, but after fiddling with it for an hour in the dark and cold we gave up.
I figured that after 8 hours of sitting on its side, some oil might have seeped into the compression chamber and hydrolocked the engine. After sitting on its wheels all night I figured the oil might have seeped back past the rings (motor has 170k) but when I tried it about 2pm on sat, same scenario.
Truck is at the body shop waiting for an estimate, so I can't fiddle with it, but I would really appreciate any ideas on what could have caused the engine to be able to turn backwards, but not forwards.
Thanks,
Dan
BTW, I am Ok except for getting buttstroked by my rifle flying out of the Pass seat.
Anyway, as soon as it tipped, I shut it off, not more than 3-5 sec running on its side. By the time we walked out and I found somebody to attempt a recovery, the road had become nearly impassable to a normal person(dodge 4x4) with chains nearly got stuck so he gave up). We flipped it onto its wheels with the aid of two four wheelers and removing the bottom rear tire.
Tipped at 8 in the morning, back onto wheels at about 4 pm. temp at about 25, and snowing the whole time.
Checked all the fluids and went to start it, Batt voltage looked good, but I heard the starter engage and start to turn, but then just stopped. I figured low voltage, so we jumped it and similar thing happend except this time, after multiple tries, the starter and flywheel started grinding teeth off each other. I pulled the cover on the bellhousing and tried to turn the flywheel with a prybar, but it wouldn't go. It would turn the other way for a while, but after fiddling with it for an hour in the dark and cold we gave up.
I figured that after 8 hours of sitting on its side, some oil might have seeped into the compression chamber and hydrolocked the engine. After sitting on its wheels all night I figured the oil might have seeped back past the rings (motor has 170k) but when I tried it about 2pm on sat, same scenario.
Truck is at the body shop waiting for an estimate, so I can't fiddle with it, but I would really appreciate any ideas on what could have caused the engine to be able to turn backwards, but not forwards.
Thanks,
Dan
BTW, I am Ok except for getting buttstroked by my rifle flying out of the Pass seat.