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In my limited experience, if the lifters are collapsing the cam is not far behind. What's the oil pressure Michel?
I'd fill it full of THICK single grade and a bottle of STP. And plan on doing a cam replacement on the engine. The goal is to preserve the bottom end in the meantime.
When I had lifters collapse on my 90 the cam started to go, the shavings of cam wore out the oil pump fast, and the bottom end went away.
oil press is good, this engine has been sitting for a while. low compression on #2, at 60psi, barely changed with a tsp of oil to 80psi, lead me to this discovery, which was originally a strong smell of gas in oil... put an efuel pump, but it still smell like gas oil after 10 miles
Other cyl are at 150 , 140 psi
I will rebuilt the affected lifters as suggested by G. Rockauto list 6 types of lifters... but for my last order the valve cover was not the right one... probably a GC, albeit the partnum was correct.
will check cam when pulling parts out...
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)
Thank you Flint and Tony... , the funny part is that the lifters are quiet... I did the compression check because it started to smoke a bit... , vacuum is good at 21" with a bit of flutter that is less than 1".
I can try the ATF and MMO... 15W40 rotella is cheap at wally's world...
Especially that I have to wait for rockauto order or summit, the local shop cannot get me lifters, because these are not allowed to be sold on pollution controlled vehicle... I told the gal, it is an off road vehicle... she said the order would not be delivered... Unless I order the package with the cam, but she could not tell me if the cam came with the bearings, and looking at the cam sheet, it specified not for sale on pollution controlled vehicles
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)
How far do you need to drive? There is nothing that stops you from driving it with the collapsed lifters. You will have a miss fire, and maybe an annoying noise. But it should not injure anything in the engine.
Try the ATF, it may free them up (worked on my 258). but otherwise, I say just drive it to its new home.
EDIT: If there is no noise, I bet the cam lobes are gone :/
Stuka wrote:
There wont be any smoke. Put the ATF in the oil. It will clean the lifters. No reason to clean the combustion chambers.
Yeah when I said dump a couple qts. of ATF I meant in the crankcase/oil. Through the carb/intake wouldn’t touch lifters.
Thank you Stuka and Tony... I remember when the modulator on the TH400 failed and the ATF was sucked by the engine vacuum last millenium... Of course we are on a different part of the drivetrain for this project ...
Test run saturday... will probably do a video...
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)
I also meant to say... I opened the 360 up after the 401 was running a while. In my case, both lobes on the cam for #2 cylinder were almost round and the lifters were all cupped.
The engine was also very quiet when this happened to me.
440sixpack wrote:You can put new lifters on a used cam that's not a problem. if that's your only problem which is unlikely.
I did this years ago on the 74 with good results, but it was a noisy lifter.
otherwise, I ran the 1qt ATF sat, and again sun. I will have to do a compression test and may be pull the valve cover to inspect the effects. If is smoky when you open the throttle.
edit: did compression monday, up from 60 to 80 psi... drained oil... will post latter how it runs... too.mang bits to patch
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)
did the 50 mile drive to the next resting place, it smokes on start up, w fresh clean 10w40, the following vehicule did not notice any noticeable smoke.
oil check showed no black streaks as the previous oil change.
It was a 90F day, temp normal, oil pressure at 40. Something leaked on the uphill driveway... brake fluid cap might be loose... at 94F... cleaned the brake booster and retreated for a cool one
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)
the compression has gone from 80 to 115psi. there is a noticeable tap, but not outrageously loud. Did not have time to.pull valve cover for a manual check, to be done later.
Otherwise, the poorly locking handbrake spring ratchet was fixed w pb blaster
Michel
74 wag (349 Kmiles... parked, next step is a rust free body)
85 Gwag (229 Kmiles... the running test lab)