Tellico trauma-You won't believe this.

[KYJ10]

So I get my rebuild back from the shop, get it all hooked up, fuel injection system working. Start her up, seat the cam, and drive around all day yesterday, taking it easy. Running great, sounds great. So I change the oil a,d park it. Start it up last night, everything is the same. Good oil pressure, sounds and runs like a dream. I get 5 miles form my house, it goes pop, and just has this constant backfire kinda sound. So I park it and look around. Nothing obvious, so I leave it and come back in the morning.
Start it, and have the same sound. Shut it down and pull the valve cover, #1 has a bent pushrod on the intake, and the exhaust rocker is just wiggling free, like the lobe on the cam is wiped out again. Im sure thats what it is, because thats what they felt like last time.
I called the shop, and he is amazed, and says he is coming out personally to look at it. And that they did the work, so will pull it and fix what ever needs fixing. Which is great, but man, two melt downs in a row? This shop has a good rep, everyone I talked to says great things about them.
So needless to say, Tellico is once again OUT :confused: :mad: :( But we have decided to go a trip to Texas to visit family for that weekend and the following week. So by the time I get back, maybe I will have another new motor.
Im seriously thinking of just getting my money back, and buying a big chevy or ford engine. Even with and adaptor, I can still come out even. Im gonna drown myself in longnecks for the rest of today, and try and not let this ruin my vacation. Dennis

[rockjeep44]

WOW, that really sucks hard man. I was looking forward to seeing you and your Jeep but like we all know Jeeps work in mysterious ways. I'm sorry to hear about that man. Let us know what in the hell did that to your engine. I think we are all curious to know what the heck was wrong after hearing about all your troubles.
-Andrew

[KYJ10]

Yea, It's really pissing me off. Ive spent more time getting ready for this trip, than I have with my kids for a couple months. Im gonna let then deal with it, and try and enjoy life for awhile. Man, a big deisel motor is looking good about now. Dennis

[jeepguzzi]

Someone mentioned to me once that something with the AMC valves needs to be done differently than on a chevy. If you do it like a cxhevy, it won't be right. I don't recall exactly what it was, though.

[KYJ10]

Well, hopefully, it didnt do as much damage as last time. Last time it wiped clean 13 of 16 cam lobes, all the lifters and scored the pistons,walls, crank and made a general mess of everything. This time it seems just one went south, but I bet there will be wear on some others. Also, they bored it out again, so I am approaching the point were the block has been bored too many times. What can you go, .60. Well, Im there. So who knows. Last time there was so much metal shavings, it just chewed up everything. Oil pump looked like it turned gravel through it. You could see metal in the oil and on the heads. Right now it appears clean, so maybe it;s just a bent pushrod, and a bad lifter. But like I said, Im gonna let them worry about it. Dennis

[ May 17, 2003, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: KYJ10 ]

[kyjman]

I think you have a warped block.

[Stuka]

that is really weird. Gona be seeing my uncle tomorrow, will talk to him about he. He has been building engines for 30 years, and has built every kind of engine I can think of, so maybe he will have an idea.

Thats to bad about not being able to go to the get together though :(

[JeepKahn]

2 words Oil Passages.... with the symptoms now and the description of the previous problem there may be some kind of obstruction in an oil passage, like maybe a piece of the "gravel" that your prior oil pump chew on... MOst of the motorguys I know will not reuse a block thats in the condition yours was in after the first meltdown... They say it's cheaper to buy a good junkyard core and swap over your good parts to the new(not gravel filled) block, than to run into oiling problems due to blockages cause by metal/gravel in the passages(hard stuff doesn't come out when the block is hottanked)...
YOu might want to consider it if they haven't gotten it back together yet...