plymouth67
It be a lot cooler if you did...
I have offered my services to my wife's great uncle as he is 80 and has a heart condition they can not fix. Anyways he has a 68 GTO with a 400 in it. The car died on day as he pulled in his garage. It was electrical, he got frustrated as he couldn't figure it out and, gave up and can't really crawl around messing with. The car sat for 5 or 6 years and, I offered to come get it and get if figured out and running again so they could enjoy it again.
Picked up the car and had it running in a couple days but, here is where the problem starts. The motor makes a whining noise that sounds similar to a gear drive but, doesn't have a gear drive in it. Motor seems to run very well it has a Ram Air 3 cam and edelbrock heads and looks be built very nicely. I have pulled the belts off to see if it was assecory driven, no luck, sound is still there. It is definitely something in the top end somewhere. I have ran it with the valve covers off and it is getting oil up top (although I feel it should be more). I pulled the intake and valley pan to have a look to see if the cam looks like it was getting oil or a spun cam bearing but, all that seems fine. I have never heard a motor make this kind of noise especially, since it runs so well. I'm kind of at a lose here. There was a touch of metal in the oil when I drained it but, not a ton. I'm not so sure the oil pump drive rod was completely seated into the oil pump but, if it wasn't I would think the distributor wouldn't of gone all the way in and, it was all the way down. So, anyway I haven't found a smoking gun here..Anybody??
Picked up the car and had it running in a couple days but, here is where the problem starts. The motor makes a whining noise that sounds similar to a gear drive but, doesn't have a gear drive in it. Motor seems to run very well it has a Ram Air 3 cam and edelbrock heads and looks be built very nicely. I have pulled the belts off to see if it was assecory driven, no luck, sound is still there. It is definitely something in the top end somewhere. I have ran it with the valve covers off and it is getting oil up top (although I feel it should be more). I pulled the intake and valley pan to have a look to see if the cam looks like it was getting oil or a spun cam bearing but, all that seems fine. I have never heard a motor make this kind of noise especially, since it runs so well. I'm kind of at a lose here. There was a touch of metal in the oil when I drained it but, not a ton. I'm not so sure the oil pump drive rod was completely seated into the oil pump but, if it wasn't I would think the distributor wouldn't of gone all the way in and, it was all the way down. So, anyway I haven't found a smoking gun here..Anybody??
