Rabada

Well my trans am that I purchased about a month ago all the sudden threw a blinking SES light at me. I drove it straight to a mechanic and the spark plug had oil on it and a new one put in its place also had oil on it on the number 5 cylinder. He also said something about only 26 lbs of compression. I only put about 1500 miles on the car mostly highway in 6th since I purchased it. I don't know much about how the internals work in these cars, but how serious of a problem is this?

EDIT: also I thought that a tranny mount was out because the shifter would shake back and forth, especially in 5th and 6th. Also when i backed up my car sometimes it would make a loud bang and then stall, almost like i didn't give it enough gas, but I am sure that I did.

Details of the car are in my sig.

TRMIN8R

iTrader: (42)

Damn, only 26lbs of compression. Time for a rebuild.

Rabada

This just in the number 5 exhaust pushrod is broken and the number 7 intake pushrod is bent. They said that someone overrevved the engine. I know that it wasn't me, I never took it above 5.5k. Sound like i need some new heads?

brad8266

iTrader: (23)

Dont need new heads.

Rabada

The reason that I think that I may need new heads is that the bent pushrod may have (and I'm sorry, like I said, this is not something that I am not knowedgable, thus I may be totally wrong) shaved some metal off where it was in the head and the tolerances may be too loose for a new pushrod.

Rabada

Well, I guess that according to the mechanic all he needed to do was replace the pushrods. Should I have someone like Bob at EPP take a look at the engine to see if anything else could be wrong with it due to running broken pushrods for a while? Also is it possible for the pushrods to bent, then break under normal driving conditions much later down the road?

brad8266

iTrader: (23)

You likely need only pushrods, the stock ones are forgiving and will kill themselves and spare the rest of the valvetrain.

cav101

iTrader: (10)

if a compression test comes back A-OK after the pushrods have been replaced, you're good to go.....no worries

brad8266

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