Oh I'm sure its a block problem, I just need to pinpoint it, I don't think it can be anything else, maybe the high compression is partly because of so much oil in the cylinders its acting like a wet compression test.

 

YES! lol. Well, I also wondered if the wrong rings were used/set up improperly, ...... where they don't allow any oil to wash down to the other rings? You'll find out by scoring, etc., when you take it apart this time.... didn't see any of that when you tore the head off last time?

 

no its not rings, no scoring, nice cross hatch, ALL rings were installed correctly

 

Wow, ....well, then maybe some oil galley's are all plugged up, backing up pressure into the plenum, etc.? Or sure, even a small crack can be HELL to find and wind up dumping in where it doesn't belong... really sorry you had to deal with that so far... but glad you have such a good attitude!

 

rocker great attitude glad to see you getting the yota goin savin $$ on gas always a big + im sure youll get to the bottom of the prob, w/ the original engine

 

well, motor is out on the ground and the other motor is almost ready to put in, wont be able to do much tonight, but it will be in and running tomorrow night for sure,

 

Great/Quick work, man! Gonna give us some pics or video, maybe? lol. Best wishes

 

Ya once the motor is purring ill do a video, I'm not even cleaning this motor, so it ain't gonna be pretty, I'm at the point of not caring about pretty, just functionality

 

OH, I HEAR YA on that one! I only went so 'showroom' with mine because I had time to kill while i waited for the first POS motor to get to me! lol. Now, since I've done my own motor.... I'm stoked that it's clean when I go in there! lol.

The alarm guy the other day said, "Oh WOW, it's so clean.... THANK GOD!" lol. I guess he has to deal with FILTHY installs all the time! lol. He had a tricked out CAMRY with 300HP, SC'd .... that thing was SPOTLESS inside and out! lol.

 

hope all goes well i really hope the new one purrs like a kitten

 

OK, so.........this thing purrs like a kitten, so smooth and quiet, the motor did have a different oil pan that wouldnt fit, so i had to swap oil pans, when i puklled the oil pan off the motor that i just put in, i found some chunks of the plastic timing guide in the bottom of it, i threw it in anyways and it runs great, but i know that ill will be buying anew timing set with steel guides from ENGNBLDR soon, now it just needs a little fine tuning, but it doesnt smoke AT ALL, THANK GOD! now i can put all my 3rd gen interior in...ill start a new thread for that and pics to come, thanks for all the help, i'll post results on the Problem motor whenever i get to it

 

Rocker, great news, man!

You did clean out all the crap you found in there, right? Cleaned up the pick up tube as best as you could, too?

Good to hear that motor is running great, brudda!

WHen you start that new thread, could you post the link, here? thanks,

ENJOY IT, SIR! Loved your persistence and quick moving forward in dealing with these dilemma's, Rocker! VIDEO, ASAP, RUNNING DOWN THE ROAD, K??????????

 

, yes i cleaned all of it out, and i had to use my old pickup tube because its different than the one that was on there because of the shape of the oil pan, also, im not to sure how to do a video and get it on here

 

when i did mine, (using iphone 4), i just uploaded the vid to photobucket and copied it on here. just remember to keep the phone horizontal and MOVE SLOWLY!!!! then just paste it on here like you do a picture.

 

ok, should be easy enough, ill try and get one on here sometime this weekend

 

glad to see her on the road, W/ NO SMOKE!!! plz post a link to the interior swap, i wanna keep tabs on that

 

WOW, you wont believe this, after only running this thing for a week, ive not a new problem.....it ran great all last week, now today i leave for work (running fine), and it was low on fuel, so i stopped and filled it up, after that this thing wont barely idle and it sounds like its missing really bad, WTF!! i pulled each spark plug wire one at a time and started the runner and i found that when i pulled #2 and #3 the truck ran better, weird, any ideas? and #1 and #4 off made it run worse as expected..... really not sure here but FML! The interior swap is one btw, have before pics just not after pics yet

 

but on the bright side it doesnt smoke, lol

 

Bet you stirred the bottom of the tank and got some dirt up & plugged the filter.

 

man i hope thats all it is....