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Okay I'll type this out hopefulyl as clear as possible so you know absolutely EVERYTHING I did, and since I'm not on my phone typing it'll be easier. When the car lost compression on the drivers side bank at first I tried checking the timing and confirming the marks lined up. I then tried changing r...

Sorry my posts are confusing. Some have been written while I was very very tired haha. Basically what I have done is this. In the beginning I tried bleeding lifters, checking timing, swapping rocker assemblies left to right, then eventually I gave up and had the motor bored over. When I started it a...

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Have you taken the valve cover off and verified that valves are not closing when the lifter is not on the cam lobe? The rocker assemblies are identical, so what I might suggest is swapping the rocker assemblies between the left and right side of the motor. They can only be installed one way, so the...

BACK FROM THE DEAD. So, .... a lot of money in machine work, parts, and a lot of my time later, the block in question is now .020 over, resurfaced, and cleaned. Inside is a fresh ground crank cut .10 under on both rods and mains, king bearings all around. Put it together, started it up, and it ran o...

Well boys, I threw it back together with a better fitting set of rings for #4, a light hone, and a new gasket. Started it up and it runs okay, till it gets warm, then there is no compression on 2 or 4. I don't get it. I will check cam timing but i think the motor is just done for. I told my friend I...

I did, that's when i found the massive ring gaps. I can't give you the exact numbers at this time as the car is far far away, but they were way big. The original rings that were on the pistons offered tighter gaps. Or I found a few that did. I'm still going to have to measure bore and stuff. Works o...

THat bore guage thing is pretty legit actually haha. ANd the piston is a b size piston, all the bores are b. However it seems that the piston is under spec, unles my calipers are wrong. But it could be. However if I can get ahold of a bore guage I might find that the other piston is a better fit in ...

How can I fix the ring gap if the rings are already too short? I've always been able to file my rings down to spec, never had the issue of them being too smal to begin with, haha. The issue is really that my guy cant afford to spend money. He's over budget on it right now (had a respectable one too ...

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx23/Sciroccoboi16v/Snapbucket/C78A1E1F-orig.jpg Ring gap when I pulled the piston out. Is this a possible cause? No cracks, no nothing anywhere. Took rings off and measured ring gap and they are HUGE when installed in bore. way over spec but below the service lim...

Im going to pull the orings off and soak them in carb clean overnight and blow them out. Will see. I'm hoping its just lifters, I'm tired of this car, haha, and western washington hasn't had the most friendly weather for working on cars outside, even with my ezup. Edit: If this fails I may install t...

Okay so here's what I just did. Sorry to post a million times but I want people to know what happened becuase if anyone is running into this issue I know it would sure have helped me a lot to see something like this haha. So I took the rocker assembly out of the drivers head again, smashed the lifte...

Did a leakdown when engine was fully hot and am getting 50 percent leakage into case. Guess I'll be removing the motor again and checking the piston rings, maybe one is broken, or something. I don't know what else to thikn at this point. Replaced cam sensor, knock sensor, and plug wires (all were st...

Yeah, thats the cam gear, I had two no reluctor gears when putting it together but I noticed right away and fixed that before installing the belt (guy brought me the motor with two block haves, two heads, and a couple boxes of parts, duplicates of everything, some triplicates. All different in some ...

There's spark, and the injector gets a pulse near as I can tell (smart probe on the ground wire gets a pulse just like the other cylinders) so unless I have got crap injectors in there twice. after switching them around, and replacing them with a good set, there shoudl be fuel. And it does have powe...

Yeah, the last I checked the only code was for IAC. I'm thinking it has to be some sort of sensor as well. Fwiw the reason it wouldnt start right after my leakdown test was because I had the intake tube off and forgot to put it back on, haha. I held the throttle at around 3k and unplugged the cam se...

So I got ahold of leakdown tester and it doesn't show any excessive leakage, anything that is leaking is from the crankcase. (but only like 20-30 percent when the pistons is somewhere in its compression/power stroke) The car wont run now though. I will start and fire, and pop and sputter and run at ...

Swapped rocker assemblies, no change. I'll put air into the cylinder pretty soon and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the welcome. I figured as such, I was just hoping in the mean time someone would be like oh yeah you dummy you installed a piston upside down or something. Other than that the search continues, I will be checking leakage as soon as I can. I can't seem to find my air valve holder dealy rig...

92 EJ22T in a 90 or so legacy wagon, this is about the worst build I have ever had to deal with and it's been driving me insane. After having had the wrong bearings in it the first time (friends car, he brought me the crank with rods installed, motor ran for about 20 minutes then the crank ate it fo...