What are you working on today??

65sporty · Mar 7, 2021

I worked on this Saturday

It belongs to my kids friend, he been around about 16 years so I guess he is like one of my own. He will usually help when I work on his stuff, but he had to work. It had a misfire on #3, he changed the spark plugs and coil on #3 and still had a misfire. I checked the spark, fuel injector, injector pulse and coil pulse, compression on #3. I pulled the valve cover to find #3s exhaust rocker out of place, I popped it back in place and put it together. Started it and drove it, all 8 cylinders again. I don't know what caused it, stuck lifter, high rpm???? It's ok now

Bad picture, but you can see the lifter tip and #5 intake rocker

3175375 · Mar 7, 2021

“ I don't know what caused it, stuck lifter, high rpm????”

Excessive RPMs me bets.
Good work!

65sporty · Mar 7, 2021

3175375 said:
“ I don't know what caused it, stuck lifter, high rpm????”

Excessive RPMs me bets.
Good work!

I asked him if it happened when he was hard on the throttle, he didn't know when it happened. But I am leaning towards high RPM also

WissaMan · Apr 1, 2021

Installed our new high-capacity air compressor! It replaced an old 70's Craftsman 30 gallon portable unit.

Some may call it overkill but the way I look at these kinds of major purchases is that the things I'm buying I want to last me the rest of my life. And now I can use my bead blasting cabinet at 100% without having to stop and wait for the compressor to catch up!

65sporty · Apr 1, 2021

WissaMan said:
Installed our new high-capacity air compressor! It replaced an old 70's Craftsman 30 gallon portable unit.

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Some may call it overkill but the way I look at these kinds of major purchases is that the things I'm buying I want to last me the rest of my life. And now I can use my bead blasting cabinet at 100% without having to stop and wait for the compressor to catch up!

Love it, I am green with envy. :thumbsup:

65sporty · Apr 1, 2021

I did this last week. Another 5.7 Hemi with a bad camshaft and lifter

A cam, set of lifters, flatten the heads, some gaskets and out the door it went.

Last Friday I had a 02 GMC 1500 with a 5.3 without oil pressure. 1 owner, 200,000 miles. I pulled the oil pan and found this....

Here is the screen

This is what I dug out of the pan.

Cleaned out the pan, removed the screen and cleaned it, put it all together, oil in it and we have oil pressure again.

RGORHAM29 · Apr 1, 2021

65sporty said:
I did this last week. Another 5.7 Hemi with a bad camshaft and lifter
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A cam, set of lifters, flatten the heads, some gaskets and out the door it went.

Last Friday I had a 02 GMC 1500 with a 5.3 without oil pressure. 1 owner, 200,000 miles. I pulled the oil pan and found this....
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Here is the screen

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This is what I dug out of the pan.

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Cleaned out the pan, removed the screen and cleaned it, put it all together, oil in it and we have oil pressure again.

Wow - single owner and maybe a single oil change.

65sporty · Apr 1, 2021

RGORHAM29 said:
Wow - single owner and maybe a single oil change.

I don't know the mileage he does the changes at, but it see a lot of short trips. He is going to be bringing it to us for service now.

Two 67's · Apr 2, 2021

Doing a 2011 Ram 5.7 right now Sucks

Mntac · Apr 2, 2021

My 2014 Ram 5.7 started chirping at 136k. Sounded exactly like a bad belt tensioner bearing. It wasn't... big job swapping out those cam n lifters

PH27L7 · Apr 2, 2021

Did a little work on a relative's car that was badly neglected in the maintenance dept. These are what plugs look like on a Wrangler with 170k, surprisingly it ran well.

75LandYacht · Apr 2, 2021

PH27L7 said:
Did a little work on a relative's car that was badly neglected in the maintenance dept. These are what plugs look like on a Wrangler with 170k, surprisingly it ran well.
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It always amazes me how people don’t understand the simple maintenance of a vehicle. I guess they think that they’re just supposed to run forever on their own.

Mr C · Apr 2, 2021

Going through the fleet getting them ready for the summer driving season...this one's ready!

RGORHAM29 · Apr 4, 2021

Progressing on replacement stub frame and front suspension.

65sporty · Apr 25, 2021

I was working on this last week

My customer wants to go on a long road trip with it. He requested a new water pump, belts and a master cylinder. Also check the car all over.
I pulled the water pump and then thought about the timing chain.... I pulled the front cover and changed out the original aluminum/nylon timing gear and chain set. So new timing chain and gear set, gaskets, water pump, belts. Set the timing.

Swapped out the master cylinder, while checking the front end I found loose wheel bearings and torn outer cv boots. I pulled the spindles, pressed out the old bearings, in with the new, changed the outer cv boots. The right side brake pads were worn out, but the left were good. So I turned the rotors, replaced the brake pads and both front brake hoses.

A previous owner put something besides R-12 in the A/C system, looked like a R-134A fitting. The system was empty, so it got a new orifice tube, some oil, fittings, R-134A charge and dye. It is working, but something is going on with the HVAC control head.

It needed a dimmer switch and pigtail (no high beams) Swapped those out and checked all the lights.

Test drove it and it floats down the road just like I remember 70 and 80's GM's

I did a timing belt on a Mitsubishi Eclipse also last week and couldn't find the tool I made years ago to tension the timing belt pulley. So I took a few minutes and made this one.