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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by zman17
I'm kind of speechless as to why you would put it back together knowing something is in the cylinder. In one of your posts you said you hoped it would melt.(not to mention the damage caused before it got hot enough to melt, even if it could) I guess if that was case, it wouldn't be a very good idea to make spark plugs out of ceramic.
I know Man im deff hitting myselfe in the head, The spark plugs looks very brown everywhere so i thought the pice came off a while ago. anyways lol think the engine is worth fixing if I scraped the heck outa the wall? or should i get a good used engine?
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 06:04 PM
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Time for a smack upside the head is what I was thinking!
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 06:41 PM
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Oh man i know...... Deff a Dumb moment.... So its running great smoking white smoke steadily and I cant see a huge oil level difference,
u guys said its prob hole in head , scraped cylinder, head gasket, Any other ideas

Thanks for your input
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 06:52 PM
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You need to do a leakdown test on the cylinder that the piece fell into...I think someone already suggested that. If you do the leak down test, you will then know if you are at a loss of compression, resulting from a scored cylinder wall, damaged ring, etc.
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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Is it losing coolant? Is the coolant level good? Is it overheating?
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 08:28 PM
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I dint run it long enough to warm her up, I have been loosing half a gallon every 6 months...
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 09:32 PM
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The only way to know (after a compression test) is to pull the head and check the bore. It may only have scuffed the wall enough (or damaged a ring) to allow oil into the combustion chamber. It may also have scored the cylinder wall too much to bore out the damage. Might take a light hone, might take an overbore, might be scrap.

Of course, you could always sleeve it if it was too deep.
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TMS Bill
The only way to know (after a compression test) is to pull the head and check the bore. It may only have scuffed the wall enough (or damaged a ring) to allow oil into the combustion chamber. It may also have scored the cylinder wall too much to bore out the damage. Might take a light hone, might take an overbore, might be scrap.

Of course, you could always sleeve it if it was too deep.
How many man hr are we talking for this job u think ??? is a
240 000km engine worth it ????
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 09:58 PM
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I finally got a pic up in a album on my profille take a look u think that piece coud have made its way out???
 
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 10:45 PM
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That's a pretty big piece, and I would say you were lucky if it didn't do any damage. I doubt it would have made its way out in one piece.
 
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