Post up your BIGGEST mistake working on your LTx lets hear 'em guys!
wow sounds like a bad day went from bad to worse i could only imagine what you were thinking when the easy out broke too 
03-06-2008, 12:28 AM
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uhh..My stupid mistake is i had the engine out and was putting it back in and i had a brand new flywheel and not an old one to reference to. So instead of taking the time to look at it and figure which way it went on i just bolted it up torqued it bolted the tranny up and put it in...5 hours later i went to start it up and it was making this horrible scraping/knocking noise.
turned out i put the flywheel on backwards...yeah im a dumb ***....
so the tranny came out flipped it around and had it running fine in 2 1/2 more hours lol...
turned out i put the flywheel on backwards...yeah im a dumb ***....
so the tranny came out flipped it around and had it running fine in 2 1/2 more hours lol...
03-06-2008, 01:15 AM
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Well here is my HUGE mistake. When installing my longtube headers I think i bumped my oil pressure sending unit (93s are near the oil filter and its big) Then a few days later the sending unit blew out dropping all the pressure out the side of the engine but the sensor said fine pressure so no light came on. Next thing i know there is coolant comming out the air filter and oil in the exhaust. And I removed the number 6 piston without taking anything else apart lol.
03-06-2008, 01:19 AM
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uhh..My stupid mistake is i had the engine out and was putting it back in and i had a brand new flywheel and not an old one to reference to. So instead of taking the time to look at it and figure which way it went on i just bolted it up torqued it bolted the tranny up and put it in...5 hours later i went to start it up and it was making this horrible scraping/knocking noise.
turned out i put the flywheel on backwards...yeah im a dumb ***....
so the tranny came out flipped it around and had it running fine in 2 1/2 more hours lol...
turned out i put the flywheel on backwards...yeah im a dumb ***....
so the tranny came out flipped it around and had it running fine in 2 1/2 more hours lol...
03-06-2008, 01:50 AM
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ever building one. i feel like my first lt1 car getting totaled was a sign that i didnt see. i regret not coming off the rest of the money for an ls1 car. you live and you learn.
are you implying karma or something.. being a jerk.. serious... or messin around.. pm me.
03-06-2008, 08:47 AM
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ok, i got a couple, not on my cars but when i worked at a dealership (gasp), yes techs **** up too.
number 1, don't really know what i did wrong, working on a Buick with the gen2 v-6 3.8, it had an intake gasket leak (common problem on the gen2 and gen3 v-6's), did all the repair work, took it for the test drive and the motor locked up. Of coarse then had to do a motor swap.
number 2, head gaskets on a vortec 5.3, I put them in backwards, so the coolant passages were blocked to the heads, had to do that one twice.
Number 3 was on my car. 150 wet shot, no tuning, only thing i did was plugs... Blew the driver side head gasket... and i guess the mistake there was not going back in with ported heads and cam, just kept it stock, (no monies).
number 1, don't really know what i did wrong, working on a Buick with the gen2 v-6 3.8, it had an intake gasket leak (common problem on the gen2 and gen3 v-6's), did all the repair work, took it for the test drive and the motor locked up. Of coarse then had to do a motor swap.
number 2, head gaskets on a vortec 5.3, I put them in backwards, so the coolant passages were blocked to the heads, had to do that one twice.
Number 3 was on my car. 150 wet shot, no tuning, only thing i did was plugs... Blew the driver side head gasket... and i guess the mistake there was not going back in with ported heads and cam, just kept it stock, (no monies).
03-06-2008, 08:48 AM
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Back in 2002, being too cheap to replace the bungee bolt gaskets on the head tube on my 92 Vette after my H/C install. 5 minutes after I cranked her up, an nice stream of coolant started coming from both gaskets. Absolutely a nightmare to replace them in the car.
03-06-2008, 08:56 AM
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decided against head porting, too expensive for me right now, still being in college and all, besides if i go that far i would go with the cc306 or gm847 something like that, I wanted some more power, good sound and the biggest thing RETAIN good mpg's. AND i got everything for about 1/2 price. going with the cc503 in the end would have cost me like 350$ more.. not worth the measly performance difference. so yep.. thats why i went hotcam.
03-06-2008, 09:00 AM
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ok, i got a couple, not on my cars but when i worked at a dealership (gasp), yes techs **** up too.
number 1, don't really know what i did wrong, working on a Buick with the gen2 v-6 3.8, it had an intake gasket leak (common problem on the gen2 and gen3 v-6's), did all the repair work, took it for the test drive and the motor locked up. Of coarse then had to do a motor swap.
number 2, head gaskets on a vortec 5.3, I put them in backwards, so the coolant passages were blocked to the heads, had to do that one twice.
Number 3 was on my car. 150 wet shot, no tuning, only thing i did was plugs... Blew the driver side head gasket... and i guess the mistake there was not going back in with ported heads and cam, just kept it stock, (no monies).
number 1, don't really know what i did wrong, working on a Buick with the gen2 v-6 3.8, it had an intake gasket leak (common problem on the gen2 and gen3 v-6's), did all the repair work, took it for the test drive and the motor locked up. Of coarse then had to do a motor swap.
number 2, head gaskets on a vortec 5.3, I put them in backwards, so the coolant passages were blocked to the heads, had to do that one twice.
Number 3 was on my car. 150 wet shot, no tuning, only thing i did was plugs... Blew the driver side head gasket... and i guess the mistake there was not going back in with ported heads and cam, just kept it stock, (no monies).
did you ever end up figuring out why the engine locked up? lol.... what did you tell the car's owner ?
03-06-2008, 09:11 AM
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acually it was a car the dealership had bought for an auto pronto (buy here, pay here). But no, i never found out why. It would spin to a point then stop, i could back it up and it would go a little bit then stop again. It wasn't the valves because i took the valve cover gaskets off and everything was good there. Maybe it was a spun bearing, the fresh 5w-20 might have made it let go.
