Valve stem seals
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Valve stem seals
So after working everything out with the O2 sensors the truck started to run funny again. Not the same as last time. IT sounded funny kinda of hollow. Anyways I started going through everything and figured I would check the gap on the spark plucks. While pulling them one spark plug was oily so I peered down into the cylinder and noticed it had a ton of gunk in it. My buddy said that it usually indicates a bad valve stem seal.
I know the general idea of doing a vavle stem but, I've never actually done one. How hard is it and do all of think that the valve stem being bad sould actully cause the cylnder to feel up with gunk. I deffinetly have an oil consumption problem. It uses about 2 to 3 quarts every 2000 miles. Also is there an easy way to clean out the cylinder really good. I don't really want to pull the heads beacause I've been told that if you take them off and they have a crack you'll never get them back on.
I know the general idea of doing a vavle stem but, I've never actually done one. How hard is it and do all of think that the valve stem being bad sould actully cause the cylnder to feel up with gunk. I deffinetly have an oil consumption problem. It uses about 2 to 3 quarts every 2000 miles. Also is there an easy way to clean out the cylinder really good. I don't really want to pull the heads beacause I've been told that if you take them off and they have a crack you'll never get them back on.
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Well if you do the valve stem seal, there is a couple way to do it. With air (you make an adapter for the sparkplug hole) or a rope. You stick the rope in the cylinder and rotate the motor by hand to bring the piston up to where it just touches and holds the valve up. Do a search here, I've seen a couple threads talkng about recently.
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Well if you do the valve stem seal, there is a couple way to do it. With air (you make an adapter for the sparkplug hole) or a rope. You stick the rope in the cylinder and rotate the motor by hand to bring the piston up to where it just touches and holds the valve up. Do a search here, I've seen a couple threads talkng about recently.
Does anyone have an idea on how to clean the cylinder?