swiggy
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- Joined
- Jan 13, 2011
- Location
- Victoria, BC
Hey guys, not been on here much recently, car has been trouble free and I've been super busy! I'd just like a sanity check before I rip this motor apart..
Anyway my wagon with a kjet B23E has been running rough as hell recently when cold, its had a hard time recently being used to tow my boat on some mountain roads and I've heard it ping recently too. Figured out #1 wasn't firing when cold, so running on 3 cylinders. Smooths out after a couple minutes, its fine when warm.
Was going to check cold compression on that cylinder, couldn't get the plug out (new plugs 6 months ago, I torqued them gently, the other 3 came out no problem. Got a bigger bar, and out it came, felt awful, like it was stripping the whole way. Plug came out covered in rust, and it looks like there could be some coolant on there (I'm running orange coolant, so its hard to tell between that and the rust). Other 3 plugs look good. A few aluminium specks came out with the plug, but the threads in head don't look as bad as I expected, they look like a little cleaning up will fix them.
I figured out why the HG might have blown, the injector on that cylinder is flowing about 20% less than the others. Going to try cleaning it and checking again, otherwise I'll have to replace all 4 injectors right? If I just buy 1 the other 3 will probably be flowing less..
Am I getting carried away pulling the head off or is it inevitable here? I'm apprehensive about trying to check compression or anything due to possible metal in cylinder from the plug thread, I mean I used a 2ft bar to get the plug out. It was so tight I am concerned the head has warped or something
Anyway my wagon with a kjet B23E has been running rough as hell recently when cold, its had a hard time recently being used to tow my boat on some mountain roads and I've heard it ping recently too. Figured out #1 wasn't firing when cold, so running on 3 cylinders. Smooths out after a couple minutes, its fine when warm.
Was going to check cold compression on that cylinder, couldn't get the plug out (new plugs 6 months ago, I torqued them gently, the other 3 came out no problem. Got a bigger bar, and out it came, felt awful, like it was stripping the whole way. Plug came out covered in rust, and it looks like there could be some coolant on there (I'm running orange coolant, so its hard to tell between that and the rust). Other 3 plugs look good. A few aluminium specks came out with the plug, but the threads in head don't look as bad as I expected, they look like a little cleaning up will fix them.
I figured out why the HG might have blown, the injector on that cylinder is flowing about 20% less than the others. Going to try cleaning it and checking again, otherwise I'll have to replace all 4 injectors right? If I just buy 1 the other 3 will probably be flowing less..
Am I getting carried away pulling the head off or is it inevitable here? I'm apprehensive about trying to check compression or anything due to possible metal in cylinder from the plug thread, I mean I used a 2ft bar to get the plug out. It was so tight I am concerned the head has warped or something