the baPhoon
Active member
As a few of you have read i've recently been having some knock issues. I started my troubleshooting off trying to drop my IAT's and engine temps.
I took it to a few places and found out my radiator was cracked, so i bought a new one.
I figure while im at it ill replace and relocate my IC lines with 3/4 heater hose.
While i was finagling the passenger side metal line i snapped off the plastic harness to my engine coolent temp sensor so i had to replace it. :rant:
Everything to this point was going rather smooth. I got everything replace, ran, and ready to start filling the cooling system. After i got about half a gallon of distilled water in the radiator i heard a nice trickling noise :squint: low and behold my torque wrench didnt stop at 22 inch pounds heh. Water was flowing down the block at about a gallon every 5 seconds. Heres some pics of the aftermath.
Luckily a welder friend of mine was in the nieghborhood and decided to stop by. The manifold now looks like this :tup:
Heres a nice shot of some ugly blow by.
On a side note, Im still tracking down my knock and my truck is still in pieces. My AFR under WOT has been hovering at or around 10.5.
My question here is, other then the expensive 30 dollar per injector off truck cleaning, is there another efficiant somewhat afordable way to clean out the injectors while they are off the truck?
I took it to a few places and found out my radiator was cracked, so i bought a new one.
I figure while im at it ill replace and relocate my IC lines with 3/4 heater hose.
While i was finagling the passenger side metal line i snapped off the plastic harness to my engine coolent temp sensor so i had to replace it. :rant:
Everything to this point was going rather smooth. I got everything replace, ran, and ready to start filling the cooling system. After i got about half a gallon of distilled water in the radiator i heard a nice trickling noise :squint: low and behold my torque wrench didnt stop at 22 inch pounds heh. Water was flowing down the block at about a gallon every 5 seconds. Heres some pics of the aftermath.
Luckily a welder friend of mine was in the nieghborhood and decided to stop by. The manifold now looks like this :tup:
Heres a nice shot of some ugly blow by.
On a side note, Im still tracking down my knock and my truck is still in pieces. My AFR under WOT has been hovering at or around 10.5.
My question here is, other then the expensive 30 dollar per injector off truck cleaning, is there another efficiant somewhat afordable way to clean out the injectors while they are off the truck?
