ok...been a pretty bad week...and pretty busy week
Saturday morning i pulled the valve covers,,,,driver side everything checked out fine.....passenger side....no 8 intake and exhaust was loose...i readjusted them...and then turned engine over...and it was obvious that the exhaust rocker was not going up and down all the....figured i had flatted a lobe......other issue i had during break in went the motor got HOT.....oil pressure had dropped from 80 psi to 40 psi.....
Sunday I pull intake manifold and it looked like 3 lobes were damaged in the 20 minutes it ran......so....had to do some thinking....what happened.....
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After thinking about this screw up.....I had two engine torn apart at the same time...both using a hughes 6468 cam....both using Howards EDM lifters.....i got the lifters mixed up...and bingo.....
the other engine is still on the engine stand...i will remove those lifters and install new ones that were ordered...
so now what....i pulled the cam out....my oldest daughter friend makes lamps out bad camshafts.......lol
so what about the oil pressure?.....dont know...i looked and looked for bearing material...dropped the pan....nice thing about the qa1 k member...pan comes off easy...
i could see and feel bits of metal...but the magnetic drain plug was pretty clean of any metal pieces.....so...decision time....LOL
Sitting on engine stand is bare block that had to have a Heil coil installed in the front due to a bolt in the timing chain cover breaking and me not drilling too straight...I had been fully assemble short block....
Monday after work...i decided to assemble that block....got it all washed up....crank in....the pistons had the rings on them and attached to the rods...so it was an easy go....
yesterday i got the camshaft MP590 installed and degreed in...timing chain cover on....oil pan on....
I wanted to use the heads that were on the other engine so i removed them today....cleaned them up....they had run 20 minutes...mostly intake gasket stuff..
the I pulled the remainder of the old engine out of the car........
I thought i had the right head gaskets that i needed but nope...Summit will deliver them tomorrow...`
SO i will see how far i can get with this tomorrow...there is a TnT saturday night....
and it has been 108 all week in Vegas....that is what is killing me....aint no kid anymore....lol
