From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 06:32:38 PST
Is it possible have the engine sleeved or has it been
sleeved before and just resleeve it?
Rick
--- santoken@bright.net wrote:
> List,
>
> While using my XM215 Dump Truck yesterday for a
> goodwill gesture I heard a bang followed by a strong
> vibration and an intermittent hammer noise. At
> first, I thought I dropped a valve. The solid
> vibration/miss combined with the occasional
> hammer/bang noise puzzled me. After I dropped my
> load (was loaded heavy), I left it idle for a bit.
> As it sat there, when it hammered, the stack puffed
> the pretties blue smoke you ever saw ):
>
> After limping it back out of the woods to the shop
> (nearly 3 miles) we proceded to check it out.
> Pulled the valve cover, valve train all looked good.
> Pulled the plugs for a compression check, #1
> completely dead, other 5 right around 100-110. Upon
> further inspection, I could see the top of #1
> piston...it didn't move when cranking. :(
>
> Dropped the pan...bottom of the piston laying in the
> oil pan. Seems the lower half of the piston gave up
> the ghost...right above the wrist pin. So, there
> was the rod just slapping up and down in #1 hole! I
> can't tell you how bad the cylinder wall
> looks...there has to be 1/8" deep groves in the
> cylinder wall!
>
> So, at this point, I'm looking for a GMC inline 302.
> I would prefer to find it with the trans bolted to
> it. I'm not so fussy about whether the engine/trans
> is ready to use, cause I'm gonna take it apart for a
> rebuild anyway. I don't have a problem paying to
> have the thing shipped, either.
>
> Anyway, as many of you know, I'm located in North
> Central Ohio. Anyone got an engine for sale?
>
> Kent
>
>
>
> ===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
> To unsubscribe, send e-mail to
> <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
> To reach a human, contact <ackyle@gmail.com>
> Visit the searchable archives at
> http://www.mil-veh.org/archives/
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Tue Jul 18 2006 - 21:41:46 PDT