Chevy & GMC Vans

Well, it seems that I will be pulling the motor, to find out what let loose. Its either a bearing, or a wrist pin, maybe a rod. Motor should be out tomorrow. Im praying a set of bearings will cure my problem, but, with my luck, I highly doubt it.

Good luck on it Dennis.

wow the V8 jokes in the beginning would have fixed all of this

hope it's nothing major good luck

Dennis,
Any updates??.

Motor is out, I pulled the pan off, everything looks good to the naked eye, but I wont know anything until i pull it all apart. Nothing is broken that I can see, Ill post more after i get it apart.

Well, I pulled the heads off, and fouond something that isnt supposed to be there. I found a screw, melted to the top of #5 piston, and another peice of metal, melted to the side of the piston. i havent pulled the piston out to see if the cylinder is bad, but im assuming it is. So, it looks like im building a motor. It will be a swap, ill use the block, pistons and crank out of skippys old 88. Everything else will be swapped off of my motor onto his, with new rings, bearings and gaskets. Cam looks pretty worn too, so we'll see what skippys looks like and go from there. Goes from bad to worse. The fisher luck at it's best.......... any ideas cheap hi performance upgrades?

mine was a crate motor put in a year before i bought the van , it only had 60k on it when you pulled it so everything internal should be in great condition . couldhave been an easy swap over if somebody didn't leave it outside all winter uncovered .

Isn't Blazer getting rid of a van ( with a motor ) real cheap?

Is Dan's engine set up from being out in the winter???.Does it turn over by hand??.

Isn't Blazer getting rid of a van ( with a motor ) real cheap?

yeah but what it would cost us to get there (8hrs away) we could pick up a motor here much cheaper if needed .

liftedwhiteastro wrote:Well, I pulled the heads off, and fouond something that isnt supposed to be there. I found a screw, melted to the top of #5 piston, and another peice of metal, melted to the side of the piston.

Any guesses on where the screw and chunk of metal came from?
Do you think they were inadvertently dropped into the intake, or did something let loose?

Any guesses on where the screw and chunk of metal came from?
Do you think they were inadvertently dropped into the intake, or did something let loose?

yeah he just recently had the valve covers & intake off to replace the gaskets , were thinking something fell in the heads we didn't notice & got sucked in through the valves .

That theory is out the window skipdiddlydo. We pulled the valve covers to SEE what the knock was. Must have happened when we had it apart 757892435852 times to figure out what was wrong with it.

Well either way it happened Dennis,that sucks.Sorry to hear about what you found.

Let's say you do rings and bearings and a fresh gasket set on Dan's engine.Maybe with etc,etc-you spend $200.

If you spend $350 you could get a running 305 and if you have a RWD,I have a spair set of engine mounts.

You got it apart now and now "might" be the time to make the V8 move.

If you spend $350 you could get a running 305 and if you have a RWD,I have a spair set of engine mounts.

You got it apart now and now "might" be the time to make the V8 move.

but then he's gotta worry about the junk yard tranny thats been in it for 2 years or more now which is an expense thats outa the question right now .