Engine Breakdown

Post by **joerg** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:50 pm

I was driving my Charger yesterday when i noticed a ticking noise that came from the engine. I wanted to turn arround and drive to my friends shop so he could check it real quick. Didn´t make it that far when the noise got worse and suddenly boooom

The engine was still running but missing at least one cylinder.

I drove the car the last mile to my friends shop and took the engine apart today.

One the pic´s below u can see what i found. Took me 4 hours and 200USD to get it repaired.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:05 pm

Wow! Is that a valve lifter breaking right through the the valve lever?!?

Post by **joerg** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:14 pm

fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:Wow! Is that a valve lifter breaking right through the the valve lever?!?

Yes it is

Post by **ttocs** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:23 pm

yer not running rollers?

That sucks. i know that ticking noise... Where ya getting on it to deserve it or was this just one of those things?

Post by **stipud** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:24 pm

What on earth would cause that? Did the valve hit the piston?

Post by **joerg** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:27 pm

I´m switchin to rollers next Spring. Only few more days until snow sets in here ttocs.

And the initial proplem was a lifter failure on the exhaust valve. That´s why replaced the Edelbrock ones with Comp Cams now.

gridracer · Post by **gridracer** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:34 am

I have comp cams 1.6 roller rockers on my 5.7 in my jimmy I would never go back to stamped rockers on anything, even the stock rockers in my 97 jimmy were rollers.Hope everything is all fixed good now.

Post by **ttocs** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:31 am

suprised with everything you put in it that you did not go for them already. I have a set of trickflow heads I got on sale last year (NIB), I think I finally found a good deal on the cam and now I am looking for the RR to complete the head before I install them.