Pulling motor, bad compression

[Brandon Hovater]

Well, bad compression on the driver side. Puling the motor to pull the head. Believed a bent rod and hope nothing else. Hope to be getting on the road in a week. Thank you all for your support! This is a great site! ROll Tide!!!!

 

[John G]

How many miles on the motor?



What symptoms did you have?

 

[scott degroot]

Low compression on all cylinders on one side of the engine and not the other on a dual overhead cam engine is a result of skipped timing on that side.

 

[Jeffksf B]

How many miles on it?

 

[Brandon Hovater]

92,000 miles. Loss of power. Miss fires. All electrical was good. Fuel good. I have made other post. Just hope the block is ok.

 

[Richard Toms]

Good luck with this project. When I had my loss of power, it didn't happen until I hit 181k miles. I don't know what I would do if it came to this dilemma.

 

[Richard L]

I agree with l1tech. If a dual overhead cam "V" motor has low compression on one side only, I would look at cam timing.. Probably a timing chain issue. Early Gen1 V6's were known to have timing chain issues...mostly noise caused by timing chain tensioners, however once the change gets too much slack, it's prone to chain and sprocket wear which can cause the chain to skip a tooth and throw off cam/valve.



...Richard

 

[Brandon Hovater]

Broken valve spring. Said cylinder wall and piston look great! Hope the head work is not too much! Thanks y'all!

 

[scott degroot]

A broken valve spring doesn't cause the whole side of the engine to lose compression. A broken valve spring could also have been fixed without pulling the engine out or the cylinder head off. Something doesn't sound right here.

 

[Lloyd Ledford]

can you post pics of the left cassette? bet it's ate up.

 

[Brandon Hovater]

He believes that the timing shain slipped and threw the can of that caused the misfire on the driver side. I will know more tomorrow.