I started in on a new EMC certification, the EMC Backup Recovery Technology Architect. You can read my narrations here.
More to come, but not right now...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
Suburban: 3, Greg 2 - Game Over
Well, I reassembled the Suburban and fired it up. I was ecstatic that it started and I drove it for the first time in months. My heart sank as it lost power after about 15 minutes and I could almost not get it up to 30 miles an hour.
I did a compression test. No compression on cylinders 4 or 6. All others appeared fine, so I tore into it again. I pulled the valve cover off the passenger side and adjusted the valves.
No compression.
A quick phone call to my good friend Mike, and he confirmed what I feared. Most likely when I over-tightened the rockers on the initial reassembly, the valves bent. To repair this will require going even deeper into the engine, pulling the heads and resurfacing them. Then, we hope there are no holes in the cylinders. It's more than I'm up for, and I'm a little heartbroken and a little p***ed off.
Beaten by a $1500 truck...
Shucks...
I did a compression test. No compression on cylinders 4 or 6. All others appeared fine, so I tore into it again. I pulled the valve cover off the passenger side and adjusted the valves.
No compression.
A quick phone call to my good friend Mike, and he confirmed what I feared. Most likely when I over-tightened the rockers on the initial reassembly, the valves bent. To repair this will require going even deeper into the engine, pulling the heads and resurfacing them. Then, we hope there are no holes in the cylinders. It's more than I'm up for, and I'm a little heartbroken and a little p***ed off.
Beaten by a $1500 truck...
Shucks...
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