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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #45 on: April 22 2012, 11:31:30 PM »
Also forgot to mention I sprayed starting fluid around base of the EGR valve with the car running and there does not appear to be any leaks.

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #46 on: April 28 2012, 04:00:46 PM »
Any thoughts?????????????

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #47 on: May 16 2012, 09:32:08 AM »
Finally got it sorted out.  Ended up pulling the head to see if I had any bent valves as a result of the broken rocker arm and bent pushrod.  Valves checked out good.  Put new head gaskets on both sides while I was there.  Fired it up Monday night and low and behold I have all 6 cylinders firing.  So it looks like I had a blown head gasket, even though my compression checked good.  Go figure.

A big thanks to all that chimed in, and especially to Steve Wood, who was a great help.  I was ready to throw in the towel.  Going to take her out for a spin tonight!  Can't wait. 

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #48 on: May 16 2012, 09:55:54 AM »
Fortunately, you are the persistent kind!  Enjoy it  :)
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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #49 on: May 16 2012, 12:00:06 PM »
Fortunately, you are the persistent kind!  Enjoy it  :)

Funny how sometimes these cars & persistance go hand in hand!
Many have quit & sold the car but it's good to hear it's all good. All that work is gonna make the Smile on your face even bigger when your flying down the road!  :atbeer:
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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #50 on: May 19 2012, 07:27:10 PM »
too late to help, but when you did your compression checks - did you remove just the plug for the cylinder you were working, or did you remove all 6?  I wonder if pulling all 6 for the check might have isolated this sooner.
I posted a different question, so I figured I'd better keep things even try to help someone.  So far, I can't.  But since my car has sat as long as yours, a little empathy for your problem is as close as I can get.

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #51 on: May 22 2012, 10:13:04 PM »
Premature celebartion.  Started the car up a couple of days later to take it to a local cruise night and it is running like crap again.  Go figure!  Back to number 2 not firing but have spark, fuel and compression.  Swapped injector leads between 2 and 4, swapped plug wires, swapped coil connections on 2 and 5.  Still can pull connection at injector 2 while idling and it does not make a difference to the idle.  I'm stumped!   :x

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #52 on: May 23 2012, 04:57:17 PM »
that was your bad rocker arm, right?  Any chance something is still not right there and your exhaust valve isn't cycling in sequence?

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #53 on: June 29 2012, 10:13:49 AM »
Ended up being a bad injector.  Swapped the suspect injector in cylinder 2 and not 2 is firing.  So replaced them all with a set of 42's and a TT chip and she is now running sweet as a nut.  Have put over 600 miles on here since fixing the problem.  A special thanks to Steve Wood for all his help!  Wouldn't have got it fixed with out it.

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #54 on: June 29 2012, 10:53:41 AM »
I told you that 4 pages ago :icon_eyes:
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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #55 on: June 29 2012, 11:46:23 AM »
Hope you had some fun on the tour...:)  glad the fix stayed fixed!
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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #56 on: June 29 2012, 12:19:22 PM »
Read the entire thread was glad you found the issue... If possible can we get an admin add to the heading off topics that have been solved or fixed to have the word solved in parenthesis (SOLVED).

Or even better make a section of solved problems and move them into a solved problems section?

Something like this would help big time when dumpster dive searching threads for diagnosis... O0

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Re: Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #57 on: June 29 2012, 01:09:52 PM »
Read the entire thread was glad you found the issue... If possible can we get an admin add to the heading off topics that have been solved or fixed to have the word solved in parenthesis (SOLVED).

Or even better make a section of solved problems and move them into a solved problems section?

Something like this would help big time when dumpster dive searching threads for diagnosis... O0

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Solved. :rofl:

I added it to the OP Subject line - will consider the other suggestions.

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Re: <SOLVED> Car Stored 5 years, Cylinder 4 not firing at all
« Reply #58 on: July 02 2012, 06:26:55 AM »
Ya, likely the seals on the exhaust side (which there should be NONE) certainly contributed to the problem.  The stack up certainly would have bent a pushrod or more, especially at high lift and higher ratio than normal.
The exaust guides have to be cut down, and modified exhaust valves added to run seals on that side.
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