What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Jsdirt]

Finished the Sportsman 700 clutch install, got an ice-auger running, and to start the morning off, I rescued my sister-in-law and her '04 Olds Alero.

 

The Olds has the 3400 pushrod V6. Only 64k miles! Thing is a time-warp - mint condition for up here. She called in hysterics this morning - had to be at work, and said the car was knocking LOUD. Oh boy .... So I get down there, had her fire it up - YUP! That's a KNOCK! Holy crap was that bad - sounded like someone was wailing on the rear valve cover with a 4-pound sledge. Could hear a dead miss too. I suspect a rocker stud yanked out of the head, and the pushrod was just slamming the rocker against the valve cover. Threw the scan tool on just to see what the light was, hoping it would tell me which cylinder can't breathe. The knock was so bad, it threw a random - P0300.

 

I didn't bring the trailer, and I figured the damage is already done, so I had her follow me back to her apartment, which was only 4 miles or less up the road from where she stopped. When we got to the apartment, she said it wouldn't go over 40 MPH - may have made things worse. We'll see soon enough. She was going to call in to work, and I advised against that - told her she'd need all the money she could get to fix the thing.

 

Going to run down there sometime this week and tow it back here. I'll probably end up doing it labor free. Their financial situation isn't what you'd call golden. It's all good. I have the ability God gave me, so gotta give back sometimes - that's how it works.

 

Should be some great pics to follow, I can imagine!

 

 

 

Here's a pic of those Polaris clutches - one is new, the other is old (primary) - funny thing is, the new one in the foreground has no spring in it - that's how it will sit with no tension to force it back. The old one in back there is fully assembled! Spring doesn't have enough power to overcome the corrosion on the thing. It looks like it came out of the ocean.

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2017 by Jsdirt

[Chevor]

This morning we drove by Lambeau Field and boy it really is in a field.

 

This afternoon,

So I says to Coyota, look the Mighty Mac, ......

[NEFisher11]

I did my front brakes last night after work. New pads and rotors. Wore the olds down to the wear bars.

[Jsdirt]

I'm going to be needing to do mine again real soon too. 30k hard miles on them. When I put the Blizzaks on, they were about 90% worn.

 

Just got back with my SIL's Olds Alero. Had to shuffle a bunch of stuff around in the barn to make sure I could get to a couple snowblowers and an ATV while that thing has the engine opened up. My ears were ringing trying to pinpoint the knock - man, is that bad! Has less than 64K on it - 63k and change.

[Dnt]

Hard to tell how bad the noise is from here but I will guess that it is a wrist pin failure........have you done the tear down yet?

[Jsdirt]

Not yet.

 

Doesn't sound to me like anything in the block - it's a very sharp, loud metallic whack - just like if you took a ball-pien hammer to the intake manifold. When I first heard it, it was constant, going at the speed of the cam. Now it's intermittent - when I fired it up to drive it on the trailer, the noise would come and go, but the dead miss was very apparent at all times.

 

Unless of course I've been hearing the piston smack the head - that's entirely possible!

[Jsdirt]

Going to attempt a vid upload ...

 

No idea how to get the damn vid right here in the post - would be easier to view I think. Whatever. Here's a link, at least:

 

 

http://vid297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jjs05polaris/Forum%20pics/0114171130a_zpsgj3lqoyi.mp4

 

[Daryl LBZ]

Bought some steel blue interior piping to try out on my interior.

 

[Coby7]

Going to attempt a vid upload ...

 

No idea how to get the damn vid right here in the post - would be easier to view I think. Whatever. Here's a link, at least:

 

 

http://vid297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jjs05polaris/Forum%20pics/0114171130a_zpsgj3lqoyi.mp4

 

Man that sure sounds like it spun a rod bearing and the piston is hitting the head.

[Jsdirt]

Definitely not a rod bearing, unless the thing just completely fell out of there, lol. I think the audio in the vid isn't true to life.

 

If you listen to the cadence of it (the engine is idling at 1,100 rpm), it's in time more with the camshaft. The other noise is just the dead miss shaking the thing around so much.

 

We'll find out soon enough ...

[Jsdirt]

Ended up being exactly what I thought. #1 exhaust rocker stud yanked the threads right out of the head. Thankfully of all the valves on the rear bank, this one is the easiest to access.

 

On a 63, xxx mile engine. YIKES!

 

http://vid297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jjs05polaris/Forum%20pics/0114171455_zps730gvskj.mp4

 

 

That's not a spring there - that's the threads that came out with the bolt!

 

Edited January 14, 2017 by Jsdirt

[LongrangeLauber]

Rolled 68k earlier

 

 

Miles are adding up quick. If I wouldn't have wrecked it and lost it for 3 months last year I'd probably be around 80k right now

 

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[Daryl LBZ]

Rolled 68k earlier

 

 

Miles are adding up quick. If I wouldn't have wrecked it and lost it for 3 months last year I'd probably be around 80k right now

 

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Time to trade.

[Colossus]

This morning we drove by Lambeau Field and boy it really is in a field.

 

 

Is that an airstrip?

[Chris]

Time to trade.

He isn't Ryan

Is that an airstrip?

Stadium where the Green Bay Packers play

Sold my wheels today they guy is building a regular cab Intimidator clone. Looked good. He was just missing the wheels