Posted by Charlie (131.204.83.184) on May 01, 2001 at 14:37:51:
In Reply to: Murphy's Law... (rickyracer, Charlie T.L. and others: input appreciated..) posted by Brian on April 30, 2001 at 08:45:18:
I had problems at 2100 miles and ended up yanking my #1 after I dropped a valve into it. Like ricky said, its not hard, all I did was unbolt the idler arm from the frame and the steering dropped out of the way enough to remove the oil pan. But if the #8 has good compression I would suspect, like others have already said, the valve guide/seal instead of the rings. -CP
: Everybody has heard the saying about if anything can go wrong it usually will, so here's another page of that book.
: After about 1500 miles on my new engine, she atarted running rough at low RPM's. This proceeded to get worse to the point it had a dead miss over the entire powerband. So, I went through and checked all of the plug wires by removing them one at a time while running. When I got to the number 8 cylinder, it made no difference if the plug was on or not. So after pulling the no. 8 plug and seeing that it was oil fouled all to hell, I'm pretty sure I know where the problem is.
: To find the cause I now need to pull the D.S. head and (probably) remove the no. 8 piston to see the condition of the rings. Is this easily accomplished with the engine still in the car? I really don't want to remove the engine (don't wish to fight the headers again),but, if I have to, I guess I have to.