Brian Manually clean as much as possible (you probably have not had an oil change in 20 years) Get a few GALLONS of keroseen,,,,pour them over heads and down the galleys use a brush too Certainly open the oil pan and let everything dump out PROBABLY lifter galley is also a mess---suggest you pull intake and do same operarion. Put in new oil and filter,,run for 10 min until warm,,,dump everything again -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- No push rod?? something is wrong. Try to manually open valve,is it stuck put in push rod, turn engine over without starting,,does everything work for that valve? Let us know ED ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wittling To: goldenfin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: [GFS] the plot thickens... Well, I pulled the valve covers off tonight. Found out a few things... 1) the push-rod for the exhaust valve on cyl #2 is GONE 2) OH MY GOD, I have never seen anything so disgusting. I think my friends were right... it's smoking so bad because the rocker covers are filling up with oil... I couldn't even FIND the return galleys! I had to look for a picture of the heads in my manual to find were they were supposed to be. I scraped as much as I could..YUK .. not much... and used screwdrivers, wires, brushes etc to try and clean out those galleys as much as I could. Could only go so far to where I guess it makes a turn or something. It looks like someone filled the valve covers with dirt, sand and gravel in there, then made a nice hard oily paste out of it and covered everything. Anyone have any suggestions for flushing out a REALLY gunked up motor? Brian Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: goldenfin-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/BBiolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: goldenfin-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <<attachment: winmail.dat>> |