"jshanab" wrote: > A wild thought : I am looking at the wrong thing > > If this thing has a locking torque converter and it was > getting stuck so it caused a stall and a hard start condition > while in park. The pop was the torqu converter jumping and the > low oil pressure, (Idiot light no gauge yet) is caused by a > low engin RPM from the drag. > > I wasn't gonna push it until I got a gauge and tried cranking > it without pluts in it
Thanks lugnut, That information is very helpful. It sounds like a basic 2 valve overhead cam engine, I assume it is a non interference engine with the caveote that rotation direction is observed.
I had another thought: sheared a cam key or jumped a tooth, that would explain the rough idle on restart. Perhaps it got far enough off to hit a piston with a valve. Anyway a compression test will tell. and a quick look at the valve train with the valve covers off wil give me a good indication of the valve system operation. THe POP I heard was load and solid enough to have snapped part of a camshaft off, ahhh, speculation. It was running bad enough on restart to be running on one bank.
I am gonna consider myself a little above average on the DIY scale. I have built, rebuilt and changed engines and transmissions a few times in my life and have access to a machine shop at work. Not your normal automotive machine shop, but I can make anything. I should be able to re-time such an engine in my sleep. But I need a book! Do you know of any on-line resources?
humm, it has 174,000 miles and it was full of oil after first low rpm stall and second stall on way home and it had oil in it then also, (first thing I checked) But I am gonna check again. Thanks again for all your help.
you said the oil pump is around the crank, so no little shaft and worm gear? are we talking a spinning gear pump trapped betwen the motor and front cover driven by the crank? Man I need a drawing. got any pictures?