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SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a
gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. |
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Is this true for an engine
"stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. It happened to me on an old Ford 360. The blowby was intolerable after installing rebuilt heads. |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:51:00 -0700 (PDT), stryped
wrote: SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. 151,000 miles is still in the new end of most engines these days. My Ranger (3.0)..a 2001 model passed smog yesterday with flying colors,, better by far than the minimum requirements. Now yours IS a Dodge...but 151k is only the half way point for most engines. Gunner "Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water,in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn't worry about what workout to do--- his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn't care 'how hard it is'; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the 'Cause.' Now, who wants to quit?" NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates |
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On Apr 15, 8:51*am, stryped wrote:
SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. This is the point where you get out the bore gauges and start checking against the factory specs in the manual. If you've got no scoring, the bore size is in spec and there's no out-of-round or taper wear, you should be OK. But without dropping the crank and looking at the bearings and journals and measuring same, you've got NO idea how much more wear, if any, you can get out of the thing. And if you go that far, you might as well commit to a rebuild. I would have started looking for a donor engine at the local U-Pull- its, myself. They usually go for $300-400 around here. Heads are usually $25 or so. Certainly cheaper than messing around with machine shop rates. Stan |
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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
stryped fired this volley in news:4fa97790- : SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. You're _supposed_ to get about 50% blow-by on that motor. It was never intended to burn the gas in the cylinders, but rather, in the exhaust where it creates that cool exhaust tone that motor is famed for, along with the hyper-cool tailpipe flames it makes. You shouldn't mess with leaky valves. You'll screw up the "street coolness" of the vehicle. It works even better if you can plumb an old air pump out of a '68 Mustang into the exhaust header. |
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"stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Shouldn't be a probem if you have kept up with your oil changes. A lot of people do this every day. But do you really need a valve job? Perhaps just disassemble, decarb, lap and reseal. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. Slight fluid seepage in not unusual in even a heath head. Lapping at home may be a good idea. You can at least see how bad it might need a valve job. But if you just lap them, keep each valve in it's original seat. It often makes a difference. |
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On Apr 15, 1:25*pm, "Tim" #__#@__.- wrote:
"stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Shouldn't be a probem if you have kept up with your oil changes. A lot of people do this every day. But do you really need a valve job? Perhaps just disassemble, decarb, lap and reseal. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. Slight fluid seepage in not unusual in even a heath head. Lapping at home may be a good idea. You can at least see how bad it might need a valve job. But if you just lap them, keep each valve in it's original seat. It often makes a difference. I had low compression on two cylinders, 90 on one and 95 on the other. Would lapping raise the compression much? My manual says 100 is the minimum PSI per cylinder |
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stryped wrote:
SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. Not modern engines. Crank and bearing materials, and even more so the lubricants, make modern lower ends very beefy. I use to do rod and main jobs frequently in the cars I had as a kid. Haven't done a bearing job, nor had it done, in many decades. Don't worry about it. Do the valves. Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. When you are at less than full throttle, the BMEP is considerably reduced. So unless you are driving full throttle all the time you are unlikely to hurt lower end. |
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"stryped" wrote in message ... On Apr 15, 1:25 pm, "Tim" #__#@__.- wrote: "stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Shouldn't be a probem if you have kept up with your oil changes. A lot of people do this every day. But do you really need a valve job? Perhaps just disassemble, decarb, lap and reseal. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. Slight fluid seepage in not unusual in even a heath head. Lapping at home may be a good idea. You can at least see how bad it might need a valve job. But if you just lap them, keep each valve in it's original seat. It often makes a difference. I had low compression on two cylinders, 90 on one and 95 on the other. Would lapping raise the compression much? My manual says 100 is the minimum PSI per cylinder ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Examine your cylinders carefully. Look for any vertical scoring, and measure the wear just below the ring wear ridge, about 3/8" down in the cylinder. If these look good you can probably assume the compression problem was in the valves. Most likely it is. If your valves are not to pitted to lap smooth, you will be fine. If not, best to have them ground. Be sure to use a wire brush on a drill or die grinder to decarb your seats, and a wire wheel on a bench grinder to buff your valves. |
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In article , Don Stauffer wrote:
Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? |
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . -- Snag every answer leads to another question |
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stryped writes:
I had low compression on two cylinders, 90 on one and 95 on the other. Would lapping raise the compression much? My manual says 100 is the minimum PSI per cylinder That's outside of spec all right... I hope they weren't next to each other; if so, did you inspect the head gasket while you were taking the head off? |
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"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com writes:
stryped fired this volley in news:59f024dc- : I had low compression on two cylinders, 90 on one and 95 on the other. Would lapping raise the compression much? My manual says 100 is the minimum PSI per cylinder That's just because you were testing the motor at cranking speeds. A ten or fifteen thousandths gap in the valves won't matter at all at 15,000 to 20,000 rpm. The spec is for testing at cranking speeds. It is of course completely true that the condition of the valves will matter very little after a few seconds at three times the engine's red line... Lapping is just to make the valves look pretty while you have them out of the motor. And to correct sealing problems in the valves, of course. |
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Joe Pfeiffer fired this volley in
: (Doug Miller) writes: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. I expect he meant high force or high pressure. Joe, you're _really_ going to regret feeding this troll. He'll sap the patience of Job, and make every 'right' answer given to him sound like blather by the time he's done. Just read some of his prior threads. "Which way do you turn a right-handed screw to tighten it" might be in the genre of his questions. When you tell him "clockwise", he'll ask if you mean viewing it from the top or the bottom. Just wait... LLoyd |
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Joe Pfeiffer fired this volley in
: It is of course completely true that the condition of the valves will matter very little after a few seconds at three times the engine's red line... One can hope. LLoyd |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:51:00 -0700 (PDT), stryped
wrote: SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. There is an extremely small chance that a valve job MAY increse the vacuum in the cyl enough to draw oil past weak rings, causing oil consumption. USED to be a real consideration back when rings were generally worn out, and cyls bell-mouthed, tapered, and out of round by 60,000 miles or less. Those days, thankdully, are behind us. Not at all uncommon to have virtually no measureable cyl wear at 300,000km today. I've had engines with more than that on them where you could still see the crosshatch from the final cyl honing. Don't waste your time and money doing a half-assed job. Lapped valves will NOT maintain a seal long. Today ALL engines have at least a 3 angle valve job, with at least a 1 degree mismatch between the valve and the seat to make a line contact, self cleaning seal. Lapping cannot do this. If you just lap the valves and put in a new set of head gaskets, the gaskets are wasted when the valves fail, again. To have the heads properly checked the valves come out anyway - and they come apart to install the new valve seals. Have them ground properly - both valves and seats, or just tow the truck to the scrapyard and safe everyone a lot of headaches. |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:13 -0400, "ATP*"
wrote: "stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. It happened to me on an old Ford 360. The blowby was intolerable after installing rebuilt heads. My guess is the engine was pretty well intolerable BEFORE replacing the heads too. Yes - it DID happen occaisionally - but is not a common issue today. |
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Technically, no. What usually happens is with the increased efficiency
and power after a top end o/haul, people drive the engine harder, enjoying the new performance. Result: marginal bearings from a lifetime of infrequent oil changes can't handle it. bottom end failure. JR Dweller in the ellar stryped wrote: SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
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Now yours IS a Dodge...but 151k is only the half way point for most
engines. Dodge's engine were doing so good they decided to not install valve seats and just cut them in the head. They needed something to fail. Gives automotive machinists work, or you buy another car. If you didn't overheat badly due to cooling system failure, the rings are probably fine. -- Stupendous Man, Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty |
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wrote in message ... There is an extremely small chance that a valve job MAY increse the vacuum in the cyl enough to draw oil past weak rings, causing oil consumption. USED to be a real consideration back when rings were generally worn out, and cyls bell-mouthed, tapered, and out of round by 60,000 miles or less. Those days, thankdully, are behind us. Not at all uncommon to have virtually no measureable cyl wear at 300,000km today. I've had engines with more than that on them where you could still see the crosshatch from the final cyl honing. Don't waste your time and money doing a half-assed job. Lapped valves will NOT maintain a seal long. Today ALL engines have at least a 3 angle valve job, with at least a 1 degree mismatch between the valve and the seat to make a line contact, self cleaning seal. Lapping cannot do this. If you just lap the valves and put in a new set of head gaskets, the gaskets are wasted when the valves fail, again. To have the heads properly checked the valves come out anyway - and they come apart to install the new valve seals. Have them ground properly - both valves and seats, or just tow the truck to the scrapyard and safe everyone a lot of headaches. Total bull****, top to bottom. |
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In article , "Terry Coombs" wrote:
Doug Miller wrote: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . I guess it depends on exactly what is meant by "high compression". The compression *ratio* is invariant, determined *only* by the length of the piston stroke. Compression *pressure* is certainly higher with a full cylinder fill. |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:51:00 -0700 (PDT), stryped
wrote: SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. My experience, I did exactly that, pulled the heads, cleaned them up, hand lapped the valves, and put on new valve stem seals, put heads back on and I now had a rod knock. Guys I talked to said the bottom end most likely had excessive clearance to start with and the better valve seal and higher cylinder pressure now made I knock I could hear. Local auto machine shop had a 10 week wait on crank grinding, I bought a factory regrind and all was well. OTOH, this was in a truck I had bought at auction, 90K miles and was owned by the NJ/DE toll bridge commission so It most likely had another 100K worth of wear sitting on the side of the road idling. Who knows about oil changes. If you are pulling the engine out, check the bearings, if you're doing the heads with the motor in the truck then just try it. If you maintained the oil you should be OK. Thank You, Randy Remove 333 from email address to reply. |
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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "Terry Coombs" wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . I guess it depends on exactly what is meant by "high compression". The compression *ratio* is invariant, determined *only* by the length of the piston stroke. Compression *pressure* is certainly higher with a full cylinder fill. Strange, but somehow I thought that compression ratio was determined by a ratio of the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at BDC to the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at TDC. Piston cutouts also included of course. My diesel in my truck has similar stroke length to many gas engines but a whole lot higher ratio, actually 21.1 to 1. YMMV |
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"George" wrote in message ... Doug Miller wrote: In article , "Terry Coombs" wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . I guess it depends on exactly what is meant by "high compression". The compression *ratio* is invariant, determined *only* by the length of the piston stroke. Compression *pressure* is certainly higher with a full cylinder fill. Strange, but somehow I thought that compression ratio was determined by a ratio of the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at BDC to the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at TDC. Piston cutouts also included of course. My diesel in my truck has similar stroke length to many gas engines but a whole lot higher ratio, actually 21.1 to 1. YMMV That IS correct. The confusion here is actual combustion pressure at normal operating rpm will change greatly based on the throttle position. |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:19:33 -0500, "Tim" #__#@__.- wrote:
wrote in message .. . There is an extremely small chance that a valve job MAY increse the vacuum in the cyl enough to draw oil past weak rings, causing oil consumption. USED to be a real consideration back when rings were generally worn out, and cyls bell-mouthed, tapered, and out of round by 60,000 miles or less. Those days, thankdully, are behind us. Not at all uncommon to have virtually no measureable cyl wear at 300,000km today. I've had engines with more than that on them where you could still see the crosshatch from the final cyl honing. Don't waste your time and money doing a half-assed job. Lapped valves will NOT maintain a seal long. Today ALL engines have at least a 3 angle valve job, with at least a 1 degree mismatch between the valve and the seat to make a line contact, self cleaning seal. Lapping cannot do this. If you just lap the valves and put in a new set of head gaskets, the gaskets are wasted when the valves fail, again. To have the heads properly checked the valves come out anyway - and they come apart to install the new valve seals. Have them ground properly - both valves and seats, or just tow the truck to the scrapyard and safe everyone a lot of headaches. Total bull****, top to bottom. Believe (or not) what you want. |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:07:24 -0500, Randy wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:51:00 -0700 (PDT), stryped wrote: SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. Or I thought about just laping the valves at home. I put fluid in one of the heads and it seeped out slowly of every valve but one. My experience, I did exactly that, pulled the heads, cleaned them up, hand lapped the valves, and put on new valve stem seals, put heads back on and I now had a rod knock. Guys I talked to said the bottom end most likely had excessive clearance to start with and the better valve seal and higher cylinder pressure now made I knock I could hear. Local auto machine shop had a 10 week wait on crank grinding, I bought a factory regrind and all was well. OTOH, this was in a truck I had bought at auction, 90K miles and was owned by the NJ/DE toll bridge commission so It most likely had another 100K worth of wear sitting on the side of the road idling. Who knows about oil changes. If you are pulling the engine out, check the bearings, if you're doing the heads with the motor in the truck then just try it. If you maintained the oil you should be OK. Thank You, Randy Remove 333 from email address to reply. Most likely had antifreeze get into the oil and take out the bearings. Nothing to do with the valve job. |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:39:58 -0500, George
wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , "Terry Coombs" wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . I guess it depends on exactly what is meant by "high compression". The compression *ratio* is invariant, determined *only* by the length of the piston stroke. Compression *pressure* is certainly higher with a full cylinder fill. Strange, but somehow I thought that compression ratio was determined by a ratio of the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at BDC to the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at TDC. Piston cutouts also included of course. My diesel in my truck has similar stroke length to many gas engines but a whole lot higher ratio, actually 21.1 to 1. YMMV There is "theoretical" or "mathematical" or "static" compression ratio, and then their is "Dynamic" and "effective" compression ratio. Dynamic compression ratio is lower than theoretical - and depending on cam timing can be significantly lower at low RPM. Effective compression ratio is affected by the breating efficiency, AKA Volumetric Efficiency of the engine as well as the "dynamic" compression. Effective CR is higher at lower speeds than at higher speeds, generally speeking. |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:48:32 -0500, "Tim" #__#@__.- wrote:
"George" wrote in message .. . Doug Miller wrote: In article , "Terry Coombs" wrote: Doug Miller wrote: In article , Don Stauffer wrote: Besides, that high compression only comes with full throttle. ??????? Consider the restriction of the throttle plate . You're *NOT* going to get full cylinder fill , and therefore maximum cylinder pressures at part-throttle operation . I guess it depends on exactly what is meant by "high compression". The compression *ratio* is invariant, determined *only* by the length of the piston stroke. Compression *pressure* is certainly higher with a full cylinder fill. Strange, but somehow I thought that compression ratio was determined by a ratio of the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at BDC to the volume (cylinder volume plus combustion chamber) at TDC. Piston cutouts also included of course. My diesel in my truck has similar stroke length to many gas engines but a whole lot higher ratio, actually 21.1 to 1. YMMV That IS correct. The confusion here is actual combustion pressure at normal operating rpm will change greatly based on the throttle position. Called "pumping losses" - a spark ignition engine (and very few deisels) is air throttled - at reduced throttle settings the cyl only partially fills |
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wrote in message ... On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:44:13 -0400, "ATP*" wrote: "stryped" wrote in message ... SOmeone saif that doing a valve job on an old engine is a gamble,becasue the increased compression will put increased stress on lower end parts. I am replacing the head gasket on a 3.9 dodge with 151,000 on it. I am debating with having a valve job done or not. I will have it crack checked and milled if necessary. It happened to me on an old Ford 360. The blowby was intolerable after installing rebuilt heads. My guess is the engine was pretty well intolerable BEFORE replacing the heads too. Yes - it DID happen occaisionally - but is not a common issue today. As I said, it is an old engine- 1970. I don't doubt that there was some blowby before the job but it definitely increased after the job. |
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Gunner Asch wrote:
My Ranger (3.0)..a 2001 model passed smog yesterday with flying colors,, better by far than the minimum requirements. My Ranger 2.9 made 236,500 before it cracked a ring. Not bad for a 4x4. Less than 200K if you change the oil, I'd feel like I was screwed. Wes |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:22:57 -0500, George wrote:
wrote: There is "theoretical" or "mathematical" or "static" compression ratio, and then their is "Dynamic" and "effective" compression ratio. Dynamic compression ratio is lower than theoretical - and depending on cam timing can be significantly lower at low RPM. Effective compression ratio is affected by the breating efficiency, AKA Volumetric Efficiency of the engine as well as the "dynamic" compression. Effective CR is higher at lower speeds than at higher speeds, generally speeking. Exactly, I was just "gently" trying to point out what seemed a major mis-statement. Static is what is always stated in engine specs, but cam timing plays a major part in dynamic CR. Ed Iskenderian had lots to say about volumetric efficiency, but that was "back in the day." Leaning towards the pedantic:- Compression ratio is regarded as swept volume/unswept volume. Pressure ratio is the end result under any particular working condition. Pressure ratio is what counts. Mark Rand RTFM |
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Mark Rand wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:22:57 -0500, George wrote: wrote: There is "theoretical" or "mathematical" or "static" compression ratio, and then their is "Dynamic" and "effective" compression ratio. Dynamic compression ratio is lower than theoretical - and depending on cam timing can be significantly lower at low RPM. Effective compression ratio is affected by the breating efficiency, AKA Volumetric Efficiency of the engine as well as the "dynamic" compression. Effective CR is higher at lower speeds than at higher speeds, generally speeking. Exactly, I was just "gently" trying to point out what seemed a major mis-statement. Static is what is always stated in engine specs, but cam timing plays a major part in dynamic CR. Ed Iskenderian had lots to say about volumetric efficiency, but that was "back in the day." Leaning towards the pedantic:- Compression ratio is regarded as swept volume/unswept volume. I've always seen it as (swept volume + unswept volume) / unswept volume . Pressure ratio is the end result under any particular working condition. Pressure ratio is what counts. Mark Rand RTFM |
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On Apr 16, 5:23*pm, Wes wrote:
Gunner Asch wrote: My Ranger (3.0)..a 2001 model passed smog yesterday with flying colors,, better by far than the minimum requirements. My Ranger 2.9 made 236,500 before it cracked a ring. *Not bad for a 4x4.. Less than 200K if you change the oil, I'd feel like I was screwed. Wes Do 4x4's not last as long for some reason? I have a 96 chevy truck with a 350 and is 4x4 that currently has 302,000. It was owned by my dad and ironically, had coolant in the oil due to a head gasket leak at 200 xxx. Head gasket was replaced at a Chevy dealer. It does use the dex cool stuff. It seems like I read that the stuff was designed not to hurt bearings as much as regular coolant but I may be wrong. |
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"David Billington" wrote in message ... I've always seen it as (swept volume + unswept volume) / unswept volume . And that is correct. |
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"Randy" wrote in message ... Most likely had antifreeze get into the oil and take out the bearings. Nothing to do with the valve job. No antifreeze, I can guarantee that. Thank You, Randy You had something, a fresh valve job does not have the ability to create a rod problem. |
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