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Offline wampus_cat

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Re: engine replacement, timing? problems
« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2011, 05:53:18 PM »
Thanks guys (and possibly gals) I found the wire going to the ICM that was hlaf-way pushed together that I was missing.  Got the ol' 258 to start!   BUT there is what sounds like a rod knock... :-\ fail
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Offline GRONK

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Re: engine replacement, timing? problems
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2011, 06:18:01 PM »
Lube EVERYTHING and use some mystero oil in there.  You can run a quart of ATF through the engine oil too.  Knocking could be timing or exhause leak too.
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Re: engine replacement, timing? problems
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2011, 06:34:36 PM »
marvel mystery oil'd, no luck...I had a couple other people listen to it, and a rod knock is a rod knock, unfortunately. 
question:  How hard is it to remove the pan, engine in car?  maybe I could find the bad one and replace it with a bearing from the other engine...
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Re: engine replacement, timing? problems
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2011, 01:31:09 PM »
For something like that you might have to drop the front cross-member. That's true Rambler Mentality thinking, though, and people have done it.
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