Recent content by Mitcheky

Update: After pulling the head, all three intake valves were bent. Pretty bad (about 30* bend on one) I was able to successfully pull head without pulling timing cover. I used a bungee to keep tension on chain after pulling head and then snaked it back through when installing. I made 4 marks on...

Checked lash adjusters today. All were firm, no play. I checked compression and no compression whatsoever on the passenger side bank. Am I to assume valve damage? The car was at about 2500 Rpms when it died in the road. As I mentioned before, when I pulled valve cover 3 of the 4 camshaft...

Yea I think that's where I am. I ran it for about 45 minutes at 2000-2500 rpms and still dies at idle assuming from no compression since I replaced the whole passenger side bank. I'll pull and soak/prime this evening.

Yes. They were machined. I just said the short version of the job to save time. We took the engine down to the block and rebuilt it.

I will pull them and try that today. Any weight oil? I saw one video where a guy used diesel, and thoughts on that? I know diesel is used as a detergent but the engine only has about 5000 miles since rebuild.

Had a bad connecting rod when we bought it. Only one was bad. We replaced that rod and also replaced the crank and all bearings.

I have a 02 Liberty 3.7 4 wheel drive. We did a complete overhaul including new piston rod bearings, rings, valve seals, crankshaft and main bearings. Did not do lifters( out of stock everywhere) at time of rebuild. It had a pretty noticeable tick after getting it back on road. Well not sure why...