Ok, well my Ty hasnt lead a pampered life like some out there and has 162,9xx miles on it that for the most part have been daily driver with little maintaince over the years until something broke, then money was spent.
Anywasy i bought it back in december as a non running theft recovery from Boosted in Kansas City for 2500 bucks and trailered it home, a week later after eplacing the steering column and fuel pump, and fuel lines on the sumped stock tank and rewiring the fuel pump relay i got it running and when i first started it up i noticed a small cold start knock in the bottom end of the motor, well a few months later i had the engine out to replace the broken factory mounts with RPM frame pads and solid mounts/poly trans mount, ZQ8 steering box and new idler and pitman arm and cleaned up and painted the engine cmpartment alittle.
Anyways i had thought about taking the oil pan off and checking the bearings, but decided that i didnt want to open a can of worms i couldnt afford to close at the time, so i basically powerwashed the complete engine, installed new gaskets from the lower intake up and got her back together and running and with some tuning and a few new parts by the times in my sig id say she is running pretty good.
Well now the small cold start knock is getting worse, and in park at around 2500-3K you can really hear a rod or 2 knocking pretty good. And with it all wormed up and in drive at a stop light the oil psi guage is almost reading nothing and is in the middle when cruising down the freeway. The other day i filled it up and when i got back in to leave and started it up, the oil psi guage read nothing and the check engine and check guages lights were on, well i gave it a second or two and then shut it off, checked everything and found no problems and restarted it and it showed pressure, so im not sure if it was maybe just the guage.
So now im going to be done with school here in a few weeks and will be off for 2 weeks befoe i start back up again and am thinking about yanking the engine and having the crank turned and installing new main and rod bearings and a new oil pump and pick up. And wanted to get some feedback as to weather some of the more experienced members here think this is a good idea or not?
Id love to be able to rebuild the whole motor, but i just dont have the funds, and not even close to it. I had to do this same thing to my first car, a 68 Olds with a 455 that lost all oil pressure when hot, turned out to be bad mains, had crank turned and installed new main and rods and she ran great for another 6 months till it broke #5 piston and that was it.
but now im thinking the problem is more of a rod, and really the rod(s) should be resized when you install new bearings? But that gets much more expensive with having to buy head geaskets and more machine work, and then i might as well just rebuild the whole short block and get it over with.......right?
Im just not sure what to do, but something is going to have to be done pretty quick or im going to run out of options.
Thanks for the feedback everybody.
Anywasy i bought it back in december as a non running theft recovery from Boosted in Kansas City for 2500 bucks and trailered it home, a week later after eplacing the steering column and fuel pump, and fuel lines on the sumped stock tank and rewiring the fuel pump relay i got it running and when i first started it up i noticed a small cold start knock in the bottom end of the motor, well a few months later i had the engine out to replace the broken factory mounts with RPM frame pads and solid mounts/poly trans mount, ZQ8 steering box and new idler and pitman arm and cleaned up and painted the engine cmpartment alittle.
Anyways i had thought about taking the oil pan off and checking the bearings, but decided that i didnt want to open a can of worms i couldnt afford to close at the time, so i basically powerwashed the complete engine, installed new gaskets from the lower intake up and got her back together and running and with some tuning and a few new parts by the times in my sig id say she is running pretty good.
Well now the small cold start knock is getting worse, and in park at around 2500-3K you can really hear a rod or 2 knocking pretty good. And with it all wormed up and in drive at a stop light the oil psi guage is almost reading nothing and is in the middle when cruising down the freeway. The other day i filled it up and when i got back in to leave and started it up, the oil psi guage read nothing and the check engine and check guages lights were on, well i gave it a second or two and then shut it off, checked everything and found no problems and restarted it and it showed pressure, so im not sure if it was maybe just the guage.
So now im going to be done with school here in a few weeks and will be off for 2 weeks befoe i start back up again and am thinking about yanking the engine and having the crank turned and installing new main and rod bearings and a new oil pump and pick up. And wanted to get some feedback as to weather some of the more experienced members here think this is a good idea or not?
Id love to be able to rebuild the whole motor, but i just dont have the funds, and not even close to it. I had to do this same thing to my first car, a 68 Olds with a 455 that lost all oil pressure when hot, turned out to be bad mains, had crank turned and installed new main and rods and she ran great for another 6 months till it broke #5 piston and that was it.
but now im thinking the problem is more of a rod, and really the rod(s) should be resized when you install new bearings? But that gets much more expensive with having to buy head geaskets and more machine work, and then i might as well just rebuild the whole short block and get it over with.......right?
Im just not sure what to do, but something is going to have to be done pretty quick or im going to run out of options.
Thanks for the feedback everybody.
