Codeman
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Well I was driving home from work. I just picked my car up from getting hi flow cats welded in. Make it about 3 miles down the road and all of a sudden the car starts ticking and stalls and won't run. I pull over to the side of the road and it will idle but idles rough and is ticking. I eventually get the car towed home. I pull off the exhaust thinking that the exhaust may be restricted. Start it up and it still runs rough and ticks and won't run. I then check my fuel filter. I removed it and poured it out and it was kind of dirty but I figured what the heck. I blew through it and it seemed like it was somewhat plugged. So I put it back on hoping that it was just plugged. Fire up the car and I can barely keep it running and can hear a good ticking from the passenger side. I check and the oil is full and doesn't smell like coolant or anything. So tom I am going to bring home a compression tester and fuel pressure tester just to see what is going on. I want to just check fuel pressure just to make sure that it is not something simple like that. Oh and I forgot I added 2 gallons of gas to make sure and it doesn't matter. I am pretty sure I broke a something in the valve train. Or else I don't know if the timing chain slipped or jumped a tooth. I am going to check compression tom and let you guys know.
So this is more of a story but I was in the process of buying a complete TMA turbo kit and something came up so I had to spend part of that money. So i passed on it. I then today had this happen. Luckily I didn't buy the kit. So if there is something wrong with the motor I am going to just buy a used 3.8 and retune the car to stock. And in the meantime just build up this motor with a 4.2 crank and goodies. I have a ported upper, windstar, and cam. I also have some heads that I am going to be porting.
To me though it sounds like I have a bad cylinder because it will run but it ticks and dies out if you hit the gas. I will see I guess. I am fricken nervous waiting to figure out what is wrong. I am hoping I just broke a pushrod or something simple. It is a bad time getting married in 3 weeks and super crazy with that stuff so the car will be tough to get time to look at.
So this is more of a story but I was in the process of buying a complete TMA turbo kit and something came up so I had to spend part of that money. So i passed on it. I then today had this happen. Luckily I didn't buy the kit. So if there is something wrong with the motor I am going to just buy a used 3.8 and retune the car to stock. And in the meantime just build up this motor with a 4.2 crank and goodies. I have a ported upper, windstar, and cam. I also have some heads that I am going to be porting.
To me though it sounds like I have a bad cylinder because it will run but it ticks and dies out if you hit the gas. I will see I guess. I am fricken nervous waiting to figure out what is wrong. I am hoping I just broke a pushrod or something simple. It is a bad time getting married in 3 weeks and super crazy with that stuff so the car will be tough to get time to look at.