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blew my motor last night apparently, ran fine no noise last night. came out this morning to start it to let it warm up and heard the lil midget under my hood knocking....
so anyone have a short block they wanna sell cheap?? lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwhlkdV8Vk
Are you sure you toasted the motor.
I'm sure the block is fine sounds like a rod bearing. I'll pull the motor next weekend and look at it
I have a 4.8L shortblock I'd sell for about $300
Do you have cats? If you do start their mine sounded like the bottom was coming out of my motor. Beat on them with a hammer while it's running and see if it changes. Just my 2cents I bought a new 5.3 because I thought that's what it was.
I'll keep that motor in mind I wanna tear mine apart first to see how bad it is
And no I don't have cats, but that did happen to a buddy of mine
500 bucks takes my 2010 4.8 shortblock with ls6 cam it has about 22k miles :)
before you tear it apart. check your oil if it has metal in it then it is bad. you could possibly have loose converter bolts
Maybe
Or cracked flywheel. I thought my motor was toast,knocking real bad. Turned out it was the flywheel. So hopefully thats the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quik
added a video, yall tell me what yall think about it
Found some 5.3s on Craigslist that I think would work one 6.0 but we will see
damm ,sounds like the converter..hope it aint major..
Might want to check everything else here before you go buying a motor. I'd hate to see you pull it out only to find converter bolts loose.Quote:
Originally Posted by T-Stark
just pull the starter and get a socket on each bolt and make sure they are all tight. will only take 30 minutes start to finish
their are some shavings on the dip stick so I'll check everything else before I pull it tho
dang
That sucks
ok before you go any further. pull your oil filter and cut the end off, remove the filter from inside it and inspect it. if you did spin a bearing youll see plenty of metal in the filter.
It'll look like you struck gold LOL, but its a bad thing
be friday before i can pull the filter, im back in waco for the week.... so kinda sucks i want to tear it apart and look at it but ill only have a few hours on friday when i come into town. then im leaving sat for ft worth then back to waco for a week.
Damm that sucks
thats some funny shiz right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by o2camaross
update: guy i got the motor from said he is going to try and warranty it, im 2 months out of warranty (6 months) but he said he could do it.
so ill pull the motor this weekend or next and pull the cam kit out and slap the factory one back in there and see if i can get the new one, so i maybe up and running in less than a month.
going to put new rod bearings and arp rod bolts in the new one to try and prevent this from happening so fast again.
anything else i should beef up while im in there?
good news man, sounds like that should do it, all i did with mine was arp rod bolts so you should be good.
Talk to ppl right amd they'll treat you roght!!! Good stuff glad your not out a bunch of $$$
i wouldnt swap any bearings, if the motor runs leave it alone