What are you working on?
02-09-2014, 09:42 PM
#5947
Nice, now the never ending battle of keeping them like new lol. You need to host the pictures somewhere else besides flickr for them to show up as pictures instead of links. I had the same thing happen and switched from using flickr.
Last edited by clowe1965; 02-09-2014 at 09:44 PM.
02-09-2014, 09:52 PM
#5948
I'll go against the grain and say glad it wasn't the freaking engine Dave, I'd trade a radiator and some other things for that any day. Also don't buy a freaking reman engine, pieces of crap they are. Pull it and get a machine shop to build it if you have to.
02-09-2014, 10:22 PM
#5949
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Close Enough
Posts: 1,413
I know it has a timing chain tensioner that is going south. These engines are kinda known for that and at 120k I kinda expect it. Everything has to come off the front of the engine and the cams have to be removed just to get the timing chain(s) off to get to the tensioners.
I would trade a radiator and some collateral damage for all the work of replacing an engine any day.
02-10-2014, 06:26 AM
#5950
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
Posts: 7,233
Not working on my Mustang but...
I have had what I thought was a rod or crank bearing knocking in my pickup for a while.
I have been researching reman engines etc.
Yesterday I took my truck up to my Dad's house to put it on his lift. Yep he has a 4 post lift and a pit.
On the way something went "bang" and a whole lot of bad noises came from under the hood.
To make a long story short. The belt tensioner completely let go. Not just the pulleys (of which it has two on the tensioner arms) but the entire tensioner. It allowed the arm holding the pulley and the spring to come completely out of the housing and they thrashed around. They took out the radiator, belt, power steering and radiator hoses.
I am actually happy this happened because 400 bucks later I start the engine expecting to hear the same noises as before but.....wait for it...nothing.
The knock is completely gone. I guess it was the tensioner the whole time but I have never heard one knock in time with the engine. Usually it just doesn't sound like that.
It is always something.
I have had what I thought was a rod or crank bearing knocking in my pickup for a while.
I have been researching reman engines etc.
Yesterday I took my truck up to my Dad's house to put it on his lift. Yep he has a 4 post lift and a pit.
On the way something went "bang" and a whole lot of bad noises came from under the hood.
To make a long story short. The belt tensioner completely let go. Not just the pulleys (of which it has two on the tensioner arms) but the entire tensioner. It allowed the arm holding the pulley and the spring to come completely out of the housing and they thrashed around. They took out the radiator, belt, power steering and radiator hoses.
I am actually happy this happened because 400 bucks later I start the engine expecting to hear the same noises as before but.....wait for it...nothing.
The knock is completely gone. I guess it was the tensioner the whole time but I have never heard one knock in time with the engine. Usually it just doesn't sound like that.
It is always something.