'94 Century w/ 3100 - problems
08-05-2006, 01:44 PM
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'94 Century w/ 3100 - problems
Whatcha guys think think this is? I replaced the LIM gaskets 10k ago and I don't think that is the problem. Somehow oil is getting pulled up into the intake but the engine is not burning it at all. Also it has a tick I cannot make out, it sounds like it (from my mechanics stethoscope) that there is a light knock in the bottom end. Here are some pics and a video.
08-05-2006, 01:52 PM
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The 3100 in our Grand Am has made that tick for the past 50,000km'*. It'* a defect with these engines...our mechanic said it was a lifter tick.
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Originally Posted by captainmiller
The 3100 in our Grand Am has made that tick for the past 50,000km'*. It'* a defect with these engines...our mechanic said it was a lifter tick.
08-05-2006, 02:26 PM
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I have said it before... That 3100 has a bad / dead lifter, its only one from what I can hear of the engine... I do not like seeing the oil in the TB tho... A light coating maybe, but it seems that you could have some bad blowby or be in need of a PCV valve...
And you'd have to tear that thing down again to get at the lifters...
By chance you did make sure the pushrods were all reinstalled in the correct place right? iirc the intake and exahust push rods are diffrent lengths...
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And you'd have to tear that thing down again to get at the lifters...
By chance you did make sure the pushrods were all reinstalled in the correct place right? iirc the intake and exahust push rods are diffrent lengths...
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Originally Posted by jr's3800
I have said it before... That 3100 has a bad / dead lifter, its only one from what I can hear of the engine... I do not like seeing the oil in the TB tho... A light coating maybe, but it seems that you could have some bad blowby or be in need of a PCV valve...
And you'd have to tear that thing down again to get at the lifters...
By chance you did make sure the pushrods were all reinstalled in the correct place right? iirc the intake and exahust push rods are diffrent lengths...
And you'd have to tear that thing down again to get at the lifters...
By chance you did make sure the pushrods were all reinstalled in the correct place right? iirc the intake and exahust push rods are diffrent lengths...
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