LOUD NOISES

[James Hannigan]

I know videos are crap, didn't know about this forum until after. Next time she's running Ill definitely shoot better videos.

 

[565bbchevy]

it was coming out of the valve cover cap. Thats when my buddy popped that off and said something about a lot of blow by. This was the first time running in 4 years. She was neglected a long time. I want to try and get her right!

That's a real problem, if that is the case you are going to end up having to go through the engine.

 

[James Hannigan]

That's a real problem, if that is the case you are going to end up having to go through the engine.

replace, or pull and open it up? Yea Im new to this so its gonna be a learning experience. I found your monte on youtube! Nasty bro sheesh....

 

[James Hannigan]

Think pulling it has to happen. With the previous owner not knowing anything at all about it. I have no clue whats inside.

 

[565bbchevy]

replace, or pull and open it up? Yea Im new to this so its gonna be a learning experience.

Any and all of the above depending on your skill set or the people you know.

 

[UNGN]

Noise with smoke is never good. The Smoke coming out of the valve cover looks faster than it would be coming out of an exhaust tube at idle. It appears exhaust is going directly into the crankcase and not out the headers.

Broken piston, ring. Do a compression/leak down check. look for a bad cylinder.

 

[Turbolq4]

Noise with smoke is never good. The Smoke coming out of the valve cover looks faster than it would be coming out of an exhaust tube at idle. It appears exhaust is going directly into the crankcase and not out the headers.
Broken piston, ring. Do a compression/leak down check. look for a bad cylinder.

Possibly stuck rings from sitting around.

 

[James Hannigan]

Possibly stuck rings from sitting around.

stuck ring fixable, or is this like needs a new engine type damage?

 

[UNGN]

Everything is "fixable". If a ring was "stuck", 3 things can happen:

1) the motor is frozen and doesn't turn over. Your motor is spinning, so that isn't the case.
2) the ring becomes unstuck and the motor works again
3) the ring breaks and makes lots of noise and has blowby

How hard was the motor to start when you first tried to start it? Has it ever run good, or did you buy it from someone who parked it?

 

[James Hannigan]

Everything is "fixable". If a ring was "stuck", 3 things can happen:

1) the motor is frozen and doesn't turn over. Your motor is spinning, so that isn't the case.
2) the ring becomes unstuck and the motor works again
3) the ring breaks and makes lots of noise and has blowby

How hard was the motor to start when you first tried to start it? Has it ever run good, or did you buy it from someone who parked it?

Sprayed starting fluid in carb it fired right up no problems. The car ran healthy prior, had a leak in transmission line and pan. Re did gasket and stopped the leak.
The car was previous owners fathers, and she knows nothing about it. She said it ran good though and it was parked because she really had no interest in it.
The only issue after first start up besides the noise was I washed the car and like a dumb *ss wasn't paying attention and sprayed water through the grate up the hood into engine bay. After that it wouldn't start. Stopped getting power from battery to distributor. Had to run a hot wire to battery to get it to start.
Thats when I took these videos. The noise and smoke got me a little nervous, and the car hasn't been started again since. I wanted to get some options and what not before starting again. Didn't want to risk doing permanent damage.