2.9l Collapsed Lift,
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2.9l Collapsed Lift,
Hi all I'm new here so please bare with me. This is my story in short, I found on craigs-list a 2.9L I heard it run, very nice sounding so i bought it. Opon switching out my old motor I put in new timing gears, valve cover and oil pan gaskets... Keep in mind I had the motor turned over to install the oil pan gasket. When I finely got everything switched over and the old motor pulled out and the new one installed. I had a realy loud noise I beleave lifters / lifter when i started it. Most of the time the noise goes away and is gone. But then other times it comes back for a few mins, then gone again.... My question is, could i have drained the oil out of one or more of the lifters when it was upside down.... and should i worry about it hurting something else?.. Is it collapsed and won't hold any presure?? or??? Please help if you can. Im not sure if I could find my way back here, so please e-mail me at pikachutoyy@yahoo.com Thanks for taking the time to help.
David, ps the craigs list motor has 160k and old one had 245k.
David, ps the craigs list motor has 160k and old one had 245k.
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Kinda sounds like a sticking lifter.
Maybe try one of the new SN/GF-5 crank case lubes, or maybe a dose of Marvel Oil for a few hundred miles, or until it stops acting out, If you found the engine wasn't sludged up. If the engine was sludged up & you use the Marvel Oil, or SN/GF-5 recipe, you'll want to keep an eye on the oil filter & maybe change it after a few hundred miles, just in case it gets loaded up with debris the Marvel Oil or SN/GF-5 lube cleans out.
If it's just some varnish or gum causing a lifter to stick, the Marvel Oil, or the SN/GF-5 lube should get after it in a few hundred miles & begin to quiet it down.
The Marvel Oil treatment worked for me once on my old 78 3.3L Zypher. Stopped the intermittent sticking/collasped lifter in about 100 miles of driving, so I changed the oil & filter, end of problem, it never came back & I drove it until about 2 years ago.
Kinda sounds like a sticking lifter.
Maybe try one of the new SN/GF-5 crank case lubes, or maybe a dose of Marvel Oil for a few hundred miles, or until it stops acting out, If you found the engine wasn't sludged up. If the engine was sludged up & you use the Marvel Oil, or SN/GF-5 recipe, you'll want to keep an eye on the oil filter & maybe change it after a few hundred miles, just in case it gets loaded up with debris the Marvel Oil or SN/GF-5 lube cleans out.
If it's just some varnish or gum causing a lifter to stick, the Marvel Oil, or the SN/GF-5 lube should get after it in a few hundred miles & begin to quiet it down.
The Marvel Oil treatment worked for me once on my old 78 3.3L Zypher. Stopped the intermittent sticking/collasped lifter in about 100 miles of driving, so I changed the oil & filter, end of problem, it never came back & I drove it until about 2 years ago.
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