dlindsey19
Newbie
Well boys and girls here's how a cheap 13 dollar tbi spacer from the junkyard can kill an engine. I had gotten this tbi spacer and the longer bolts from my local pick a part for 13 bucks and I thought "what a deal! I hit gold!" Put it on the truck the same day and reused the longer bolts, well what I didn't realize is that one of the bolts was tweaked and when I was sitting at a red light idling, the truck just died. Didn't think anything of it, started it up and it started knocking, then it made a bang and a clatter sound and died altogether. What had happened was that one little bolt had been sucked into the throttle body and was being thrown around in the number six cylinder combustion chamber. Pulled it all apart and I shattered the number 6 piston, took a nice chunk out of the cylinder wall, and blew the head gasket all at the same time. So the engine is being rebuilt as I write this, it's getting bored .060" over, melling M55 high volume oil pump, stock tbi heads but with a little bit bigger valve spring in them, weiand Stealth intake manifold and a Holley 600 cfm carburetor with vacuum secondaries. If you need an idea of what it sounded like, think of putting a bunch of bolts in an empty paint can and then putting that paint can in a paint shaker. I knew I would have to get the engine rebuilt anyway as the number one cylinder had 70 psi of compression and was burning a quart of oil almost every time I'd drive the truck. The motor was wore out to begin with so it doesn't hurt my feelings, stay tuned for updates.
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