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#53269 12/09/2005 1:27 AM | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 | Ok guys here's the problem. After five years of not being run (brand new unrun engine) but just rolling back and forth in the garage in gear (was told that driveway breakins were not good for the longevity of the engine), to keep engine turning over, I am about to fire it up and now it decides to lock up on me. In gear the rear wheels just skid on the cement, plugs are out and its full of pb blaster. What now. How about puting my 500 wt shop light under the pan and pumping oil through her with a drill and rod in the distributor hole. | | |
#53270 12/09/2005 2:25 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 226 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 226 | try to turn it by hand or with flywheel backwards and see if it goes that way...??? To know if its just locked , something on top of a piston...or if it is seized....do it by hand tho cuz forcing it pulling it could do more damage....
What it will say on my Tombstone: "Boy, that guy sure owed alotta people Money"
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#53271 12/09/2005 2:34 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Sanderson,
Did you attempt to start the truck with the starter, it didn't start, but now it seems to be locked up. When you try to start it what happens? What noises do you hear? Is this the same rig you just put the wiring harness in?
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#53272 12/09/2005 1:27 PM | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 | Yes, same truck but there isn't even a battery in it yet. I think I'll do the mystery oil soak and flywheel crank by hand and see what goes. I'm hoping that the rebuild grease and oil have just gotten hard and those new rings, bearings and all have just gotten stuck to each other. | | |
#53273 12/09/2005 3:28 PM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | sanderson,
I wouldn't condemn the truck to the scrap heap until I actually put the battery in it and tried to get it started in a conventional manner. Doing the oil soak routine wouldn't hurt anything for sure.
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#53274 12/10/2005 1:35 PM | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 65 | thanks again to you guys - got it after an atf and pb blaster soak and gentle wheel rotation. thoop thoop noises from plug holes - very nice. | | |
#53275 12/11/2005 9:15 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | FWIW I just got to thinking about a non meshing starter/flywheel comination. I don't know what engine you have but the V8's use both 153 and 168 tooth flywheels. Some starters work with both and some don't. | | |
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