dartfreak75
Restore it, Dont part it!
I took on another project. I would say side job but I'm doing this pro bono for a neighbor. So my neighbor has this 1998 ram with a 5.2 the engine "blew" i have no other details lol. So she had "a guy" put her another engine in. Well 3 months and over 1000 dollars later the guy never got it running. So she got feed up and towed it home to have another "guy" work on it. He tried same story. So my neighbor was telling my wife about it and my wife said Kevin is good with dodges he will work on it. So agreed. I got it running in a half a day. The pcm was not grounded and it fried it. So I replaced it and now it's running but it runs bad! The guy who installed the engine did a real hack job i had to replace all the transmission lines he ran them all with rubber hose. None of the emissions stuff was hooked up etc etc. So after a few days of replacing stuff and getting it runnable I noticed it runs really bad under load. It will idle ok but when you give it gas its spits and spuders and will die under even the lightest load. So I dug into it. I found cylinder 5 and 7 are dead. I thought firing order nope. Its getting fuel I tested both injectors pulled the plugs they both are firing. And both were soaked in oil and fuel. Did a compression test and my fear came true. 7 got 30 psi and 5 has 60. The rest are good around 140 psi. So I'm gonna have to dig a little deeper. With the oil on the plug im thinking its worse than a stuck valve or two. What are the odds that both cylinders side by side have broken rings or a crack in the head.