New cam, lifters, fresh heads...Won't start!

[casey23]

Yeah well.... I was up till 3am before a jetski race thrash with doing 100000000XXXXXXXXXX things .... and went to fire it at 3:30 and didnt hit...... I was SICKKKKKK...... Went and laid down confused..... had a weird dream and a tiny brain storm... walked back outside only to find out the owner had came by early that day and Turned on the Manual fuel shutoff.. ??? WTF!!??? ... So at 4:45am It came to LIFE !!!

[20''strong]

BOUNTY.........the quicker fu@#er upper!

[jetmech]

bounty.........the quicker fu@#er upper!

[Frenchy]

Didn't you just build a 370 for that truck? Why did you do the top end on the 4.8? Where's that self inflicted gunshot wound smiley?

[molitor]

Didn't you just build a 370 for that truck? Why did you do the top end on the 4.8? Where's that self inflicted gunshot wound smiley?

The 370ci is still at the machine shop an hour away. And I only have one truck. Besides all of that, the gasket kit I bought ended up coming with 5.3L/4.8L head gaskets. It cost me 80 dollars to get the heads reworked and about 40 for new bolts. The reason i spent 120 dollars to rework the top-end is because a pullout motor with a bad top end is not worth alot of money. But if I can fix it and let somebody see and hear it run before I pull it out, I can sell it for top dollar. On top of all of that, I had all of the parts. So it was a cheap fix, and now I can go and get my 370ci...

[CHEVROLADE]

lol funny,atleast u got it running

[ThumpinZ]

Hey I left a shop towel in the intake of a 2000 s10 while i was cleanin this guys K&N you know cause they don't have screens soooooo I didn't want bee's getting in there or anything. FORGOT stucked a paper towel into the throttle body. Told the guy he needed a new throttle cable.... Opps Sh*T HapPens

[tanz45]

Think we have all done something similar. I lost a good pair of pliers once, found them when i pulled the intake off of my sbc 350 in my 86 Z28.

[ThumpinZ]

Exactly Hey who hasn't lost something in a pontiac valley pan??? But in the old days you could see into the valley pan. Use a magnet no R&R needed...

[molitor]

If you've been reading this thread, your probably wondering how I'll be getting the paper towel wads back out. Here is how I did it...

1. I pulled the intake manifold.
2. Fashioned a hook from a wire coat hanger.
3. Pulled the valve covers off.(so I could see when the intake valves were fully opened)
4. I removed the spark plugs.
5. Insert Threaded and of compression test hose in spark plug hole and rotate crank until intake valve was opened.
6. Supply air to Compression Test hose. Poof!

I needed the hook to pull paper towel out of a few cylinders that had sucked the majority of the paper towel down in the valve already.


And my advice: Masking tape will cover those holes just as well as paper towels will plug them.
Peel the tape off, windex/goo gone the surface, and install the intake. This way, if it doesn't start, its a problem, not just you.