Recent content by DownstreamYota

Pardon the super late response. That's a wild story, he must have really submerged it. That must've been great to finally figure out. How did it end up witih your rebuild? No I didn't need to set the cams, Yota1 did the rebuild and they do basically complete engines including valve covers. I...

I swapped different coil packs in and out and tried a new spark plug in #1, still has a misfire there. So based on my reading the next thing would be the fuel injector, or an issue with the ECM somehow

Thanks a lot man it's been such a project so I'm beyond stoked. I've put in 6 qts of break in oil total and it's still really low. That seems odd but I can order more just in case. Pcv valve is brand new, I might swap from my other truck just to make sure it's not compromised. I moved another...

2 are old so I'll play around with them and see if I can make the code go away. The main thing concerning me is the smoke, and the fact some smoke was coming out of oil dipstick tube, wouldn't expect that from rebuilt engine. The level on dipstick was really low, barely between 2 dots even...

Amazingly I managed to get it started by swapping two of the connectors coming off the 2 front-most coil packs (not the spark plug wires but the black ones coming from fuel rail area). That was a great feeling but it was immediately running kinda rough and I scanned a cylinder 1 misfire code...

Dang ok. I did peek behind the timing cover and it was all spot on. If the cam gears all line up using the single dot then it's all in time. I'll move on to a compression test cause it's probably something internal at this point

Thanks for the info, I realized my last post was kind of confusing. After posting I put the crank pulley at the zero mark with valve covers off. All 4 cam gears are lined up with one dot mark, from what I've read the passenger side should be lined up with 2 dot marks and drivers side with 1...

I'm pretty sure I found the issue after popping valve covers. Lining up camshaft dots by turning the engine, both driver and passenger sides have 2 dots lined up and the crankshaft pulley notch isn't lined up to anything. I posted photos to show what it looks like. It sounds like with...

Update: I did some electrical testing using the FSM and everything checked out. The ECM was receiving voltage and the starter was receiving voltage too (thru ECM harness) while cranking. The timing marks looked good but I took some photos cause I'm curious about the passenger side cam sprocket...

I was in the same position as you a couple years ago and did the same 3rd option you're describing. Using Tim's videos I got the heads off and sent them to Yota1 to be checked out (both ended up being cracked so they put my internal parts into new head casings). I got them back rebuilt and...

Living in a small mountain town it will take a bit of time to get a hold of an air compressor for leakdown test. In the meantime I was doing some electrical troubleshooting using the FSM. This truck definitely has a parasitic drain of the battery so I thought that and the 'crank no start' could...

Right on, yeah I did spray some starter fluid a few times in small bursts while cranking, no luck. I'm going to look into doing a leak down test asap

Yes I have the obdII with live data, while cranking the rpms go up and fluctuate between 100-300, so the crank sensor is getting data. Thanks for the info, this is what else I've done before looking into those tests: --Tested MAF connector's resistance and made sure its voltage fluctuates when...

I'll look into a leakdown test as well, never done one before. Would a compression give me any clues or is that mostly testing the health of the piston rings, seals etc? The connector lock tab is broken on one of them yes. When I put it together I snugged it up as much as it would go and used a...

No pending codes. Before having the engine rebuilt I had a P0420 that kept coming up, I'm guessing that was due to a large crack in the exhaust crosspipe causing a leak. My friend welded that up and since then no codes are present since I keep unhooking the battery. But I haven't gotten it...