you are amazing! No seriously. You have stuck with me through the whole time while screwing with my truck. I haven't met such a great person such as you. I'm definitely glad I joined this site and met you! You have been such a great help!

To catch some of you up. I first started a thread about why my truck was idling like crap. It would surge like crazy. I got many suggestions. I tried many things. Adjusted crap. Bought a new AAV (auxiliary air valve). My engine had 180 psi on all cylinders except #3 which sadly had 40 psi. I took it apart in mid june...and found out broken rings were my problem. It also badly screwed up my cylinder wall. Anyway...the past couple of weeks I have been rebuilding it. Without abecedarian I don't think I could have done it.

Now...I got my truck started and it runs great...besides having an intake leak which leaked coolant into the cylinders and high idle it is running very well and I have a happy 100 miles on her so far...and I'm looking forward for a long time with her

I'm 17 years old and I did this all by myself. I had help from my brother to put the engine to the transmission but nothing else. I am proud of myself. I used to be made in fun of because I would occasionally break stuff. And my challenges were always really hard (finding electrical shorts).

Time for some pics!

Back from the machine shop .030 over


Primer then red paint



Pistons, rods, and crank




Everything else...




Dropping it into the truck...


Almost ready to go...


SMOKE!!!



THANKS ABECEDARIAN
AND THOOK...but you kinda dropped out at the end...lol

 

DId you remember the ahead gasket... doesn't look like it in the last picture.

Seriously, nice rebuild.

 

haha...yeah I got that. The gasket the engine kit came with wasn't great...so I bought an OEM one and it worked MUCH better. Thanks!

Abecedarian for president!

 

 

If you painted the block, why didn't you paint the intake and valve cover?

 

that is impressive work-pretty much nothing you can't handle now....

Cool to see members helping members.

 

That plastic timimg chain guide makes me sad... If it's aftermarket you'll probably be doing a timng chain kit in 10k or so but look at the bright side, you'll know how to do it yourself.

Great job on the rebuild though. Sorry THOOK bailed on you.

 

Good job dude...

 

nice Job dude. Congrats.

 

Thats an engnbldr timing set. The left side is plastic and the right is metal. My brother has 260k miles and his are plastic guides...it should last longer than 10k miles...lol

 

I don't know...Just didn't occur to me. lol

 

Kirk is a great guy, he gives me crap, cause im 18.
But he's funny as hell

But yes, Abe for president

 

That's a pretty clean engine bay. You delete some vac hoses?

 

Hmmm, it looks a little different than I remember. You're good to go then. I have the same one in my truck and it's a great part.

 

way to go buddy sorry i kinda droped out on you myself but i just talked to abe and he said that you were doing this and i wanted to call you and walk you though it as i just did this myself less then a year ago to but i see you did just fine looks really good my friend now its time to make it a all out mudder lol

 

Sweet! I love yotatech Great rebuild. Something I would love to do, just need to stock up on tools first

 

I am doing this as we speak. My new block is at the machine shop getting bored out. And my new head is getting cleaned up and valves put in. How hard was it to pull the engine and components. Do you have a write up on this? Or is there one. And yes i searched and got nothing.

 

Actually I didn't. Just looks like that. lol. If you want some more pics I would be glad to send them to you

Haha...yeah he is. Its alright...he sometimes gives me crap to. Just gotta make in fun of his old age

lol...no problem. It went great...and I'm going to do it all again in 3-4 months (with a different engine) for my senior project. lol. Just need a locker and 31's


I love yotatech too! Haha...yeah you'll definitely need some tools.

Pulling the head and components was "easy". Mostly because I only have an alternator. No power steering or ac or anything like that. No options whatsoever...not even a cigarette lighter...lol.

I really don't have a write up...I didn't even think of it. I will help if you need any. Here is the thread where I got most to all of my help from...sorry but its long. You can basically skip to the last 10 pages and see what I did.
Good luck! https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...lprits-142472/




Update: Fixed idle by adjusting AAV (auxiliary air valve) and idle perfect now! Other than it kinda sounds like a diesel...lol. (My egr tube is bent and leaking exhaust)

Some pics!

 

Ahh I see you bought on of em invisible hoods didn't ya?

 

wow... that motor must be powerful... you blew your hood right off!!! lol...

Great build tho...

EDIT: Dangit!!! you beat me to it Clint...