Re: The saga of my Hemi has ended
I'm sure it will, As soon as I sell my trailer Tyler will be getting a bunch of parts new to work with. Just think, 8 new pistons instead of the 1 it came with. I'll be bugging Dave a bunch over the next few month's for advice on making it the best it can be, Now that I have a crossram he'll talk to me about it,lol.
It looks like the block can be saved with 1 sleeve. The head is done for sure, The piston is gone and it shoved a piece of the valve stem thru the combustion chamber. The head of the intake valve is jammed up into the port, I found the head of the exhaust valve sitting on top of the connecting rod. The exhaust guide split open and I'm sure the intake guide is broken also I just can't see in there with the valve in the way.
At this point it looks like the locks on the intake let the valve drop, The locks were still in the retainer along with the button but the valve groove is beat up.
I will man up here at this point and say that I can't blame this on the original engine builder. The heads had some rusty old stock retainers and springs on them so I put all new comp cams parts on it. I'll be looking into what happened to the valve stem more this week to make sure it doesn't do this again.
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