BlewByYou88
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At what point do you throw your hadns up and say....F* this!?
I went out for a quiet day on the lake this last friday...trying to enjoy out unusally warm winter. Went by myself, just wanted to relax, and enjoy some quiet time with the boat, and a book, and some lunch.
It was a glorious day, warm (78) and sunny. Boat was running great. Started to head back in, I wasn't rodding it or anything, just cruising, about 25 MPH roughly 3000-3500 RPM? When smoke started bellowing from the Vents and hatch. I immidatley shut down, started the blowers, and opened the hatch. I had normal oil temps, levels, and engine temps were about 145?. The STBD engine still had smok coming out of the valve cover breathers, and it had blown the lines off where they go up into the cowling.
Scratching my head, I looked over a few things, reconnected the breathers, and tried a restart. Engine fired right up with out hesitation....but smoke sarted coming from it again, and it started makeing a weird hissing/vaccum noise. shut her down. Idled back in on one engine.
Thinking maybe I blew a head gasket or something...Ok great....My yearly engine pull here we come!!!!!
I ran compression tests on the engine before pulling it. had great comperession on all cylinders, but number one....Flat dead zero. Ok, gotta be head gasket or maybe a valve.
WHatever, I know its coming out. Rebuilt my gantry in the back yard, disconnected the engine, and pulled her out and into the garage. Piece of cake now that I have done it like 6 times. I had her out in 3 hours including building the gantry time.
SO. got her into the garage...I want to know exactly what happened. Start dismantleing everything....and there it was....A F*ing hole in the number one piston...WTF I can't catch a GD break to save my life with this thing....
Any thoughts on what may have happened? I thought somehow maybe some debris got in there, but the top side of the valves are fine. I think the debris in the cylinder is from the chunck that came from the piston and beat the crap out of the head and piston..
Some thoughts guys? :smt089
I went out for a quiet day on the lake this last friday...trying to enjoy out unusally warm winter. Went by myself, just wanted to relax, and enjoy some quiet time with the boat, and a book, and some lunch.
It was a glorious day, warm (78) and sunny. Boat was running great. Started to head back in, I wasn't rodding it or anything, just cruising, about 25 MPH roughly 3000-3500 RPM? When smoke started bellowing from the Vents and hatch. I immidatley shut down, started the blowers, and opened the hatch. I had normal oil temps, levels, and engine temps were about 145?. The STBD engine still had smok coming out of the valve cover breathers, and it had blown the lines off where they go up into the cowling.
Scratching my head, I looked over a few things, reconnected the breathers, and tried a restart. Engine fired right up with out hesitation....but smoke sarted coming from it again, and it started makeing a weird hissing/vaccum noise. shut her down. Idled back in on one engine.
Thinking maybe I blew a head gasket or something...Ok great....My yearly engine pull here we come!!!!!
I ran compression tests on the engine before pulling it. had great comperession on all cylinders, but number one....Flat dead zero. Ok, gotta be head gasket or maybe a valve.
WHatever, I know its coming out. Rebuilt my gantry in the back yard, disconnected the engine, and pulled her out and into the garage. Piece of cake now that I have done it like 6 times. I had her out in 3 hours including building the gantry time.
SO. got her into the garage...I want to know exactly what happened. Start dismantleing everything....and there it was....A F*ing hole in the number one piston...WTF I can't catch a GD break to save my life with this thing....
Any thoughts on what may have happened? I thought somehow maybe some debris got in there, but the top side of the valves are fine. I think the debris in the cylinder is from the chunck that came from the piston and beat the crap out of the head and piston..
Some thoughts guys? :smt089