5.7 hemi swap in a non A body?
Well as you can see in the video above, it is running but smoking out of the driver side and #5 still acts like it’s dead. Did a compression check and it was dead! 0 psi! Checked all the others and they checked out healthy 140-160.
I pulled the engine out and pulled the driver side head. What I found blew me away. There were no rings on #5 piston. I do remember finding a couple of rings in with some bolts when I picked the engine up but didn’t give it a second thought. Whomever removed them, reinstalled the piston and bearings and even went thru the trouble of torquing it. I had previously checked all rods and mains when I installed the #6 piston which was damaged from the valve seat issue. Can’t make this up and I have pics. Had it out and back in and running in a day. Runs even better now that it’s hitting on all 8, smoking stopped and has #145 psi compression on cylinder 5. Just another lesson learned. Planning to get exhaust installed next week.
Well as you can see in the video above, it is running but smoking out of the driver side and #5 still acts like it’s dead. Did a compression check and it was dead! 0 psi! Checked all the others and they checked out healthy 140-160.
I pulled the engine out and pulled the driver side head. What I found blew me away. There were no rings on #5 piston. I do remember finding a couple of rings in with some bolts when I picked the engine up but didn’t give it a second thought. Whomever removed them, reinstalled the piston and bearings and even went thru the trouble of torquing it. I had previously checked all rods and mains when I installed the #6 piston which was damaged from the valve seat issue. Can’t make this up and I have pics. Had it out and back in and running in a day. Runs even better now that it’s hitting on all 8, smoking stopped and has #145 psi compression on cylinder 5. Just another lesson learned. Planning to get exhaust installed next week.