Brandon96
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- Joined
- September 6, 2008
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- City, State
- Central Virginia
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '96 XLT 4.0 OHV
Okay Here it is!
The first startup yielded quite a scare, I had no oil pressure and it was backfiring and missing and carrying on. I haven't exactly figured out why it was doing that. But after about 5 seconds it stopped backfiring, then it sounded like it had a serious miss on one cylinder. You could hear it in the intake and well as the tail pipes, so I thought something serious had happened. I then looked at the dash to see if it had thrown codes, which it did, but I also saw that it had no oil pressure. I immediately freaked out and shut it off. I checked all the plugs and wires to make sure everything was hooked up, I found the oil pressure sender to be unplugged.. DOH!. I started it up a second time and all the missing was gone, but the engine bay sounded extremely loud to me for some reason.. you can REALLY hear those lifters/pushrods/rockers!! I'm not sure if something's wrong or what, but it seemed to quiet down the third time I started it up, which i took the video of.
I DO have one remaining cracked vacuum line, which may explain why it was bogging down when I was revving it a little. It's the line that crosses over to that vacuum reserve ball thing? I don't know. I'm tired as crap, I went at it from 2.30pm today all the way till 11.30 it's time for bed!! You can tell when I'm tired, I ramble on and my grammar and punctuation get ridiculous.
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The first startup yielded quite a scare, I had no oil pressure and it was backfiring and missing and carrying on. I haven't exactly figured out why it was doing that. But after about 5 seconds it stopped backfiring, then it sounded like it had a serious miss on one cylinder. You could hear it in the intake and well as the tail pipes, so I thought something serious had happened. I then looked at the dash to see if it had thrown codes, which it did, but I also saw that it had no oil pressure. I immediately freaked out and shut it off. I checked all the plugs and wires to make sure everything was hooked up, I found the oil pressure sender to be unplugged.. DOH!. I started it up a second time and all the missing was gone, but the engine bay sounded extremely loud to me for some reason.. you can REALLY hear those lifters/pushrods/rockers!! I'm not sure if something's wrong or what, but it seemed to quiet down the third time I started it up, which i took the video of.
I DO have one remaining cracked vacuum line, which may explain why it was bogging down when I was revving it a little. It's the line that crosses over to that vacuum reserve ball thing? I don't know. I'm tired as crap, I went at it from 2.30pm today all the way till 11.30 it's time for bed!! You can tell when I'm tired, I ramble on and my grammar and punctuation get ridiculous.
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The heads are drenched as well as the cradle, it appears to be coming from the valve cover gaskets and dripping down onto the y-pipe, leaving blue smoke screens behind me whenever I drive around the neighborhood. .. ughh crap.
