[bidibronco]

BrokenPartsLuck.com? Sounds pretty good to me. But can it have other broken things? Like "The Broken "U" Joint" forum and how about "Intake Bolts broken in the Head" forum?

[Jersey]

bidibronco, on Feb 12 2008, 09:19 AM, said:

BrokenPartsLuck.com? Sounds pretty good to me. But can it have other broken things? Like "The Broken "U" Joint" forum and how about "Intake Bolts broken in the Head" forum?

Cant forget the wonderful "waterpump through timing cover bolts snapping in the block" section. Those are my favorite.

[Broncobill78]

Perhaps an OT section for stuff like dropped carb jets the find their way onto the top of a piston.

OOOh, OOOh, just had a flashback. You'll LOVE this one. Back in high school a good friend & his brother gave me a call one day to see if I could swing by & take a look at the older brother Brian's Maverick. Brian was a freaking child prodigy. His Jr. & Sr. years in high school he took every AP (Advanced Placement) class he could (These were essentially college level classes taught in high school, at the end of the year you took a test & if you scored high enough you got college credit for the class) and because of it he graduated from high school & started off his very first day in college the next year as a second semester sophomore. He got a graduate degree in molecular biology from Harvard. They called because they couldn't get the car to start. When I arrived I got more of the story. Before messing with anything I asked Brian to explain what had happened because I had just tuned it up with his brother a week or so earlier and it had been running fine. Brian wasn't a mechanical type guy but he'd watched me & his brother a lot and was trying to learn (his brother was building a bright yellow 69' Firechicken so we spent a lot of time working on it with Brian handing us wrenches). After seeing us ck the oil numerous times and asking about the correct way to do it he had checked his and determined that it was a quart low. He grabbed a qt from the garage & put it in. After that the car sounded funny & wouldn't start. I started to get a queasy feeling & asked him to walk me thru what he'd done. He showed me how he'd ck'd the oil and in doing this I noticed that it was still a qt low and when I asked him how he'd put the oil in my heart sank as he started unscrewing the air filter cover. I asked him if THAT was where he'd put the oil in & he said "it goes right into the middle of the engine doesn't it ?". Sure enough, when we pulled the cover off there was oil everywhere. We took the carb off & drained it as best we could then used shop-vac w/a piece of 3/8" copper refridgeration tubing duct-taped into the smallest nozzle to suck it out of the intake runers. After that we removed the plugs and cranked it over a few times but Fortunately we didn't get much oil squirting out & we used the shop-vac & 3/8" tubing combo to vacuum the last of it. The carb was a basket case & I didn't even bother with it, just went up to my house & grabbed an old 2bbl Holley I had on a shelf and bolted that on after using 2 or 3 cans of ether & rag-wrapped refridg tubing to clean out the runners as best we could. It took an entire weekend of bolting & unbolting stuff & cleaning everything up w/rags & ether before the thing fired up again but eventually it did. The first time it started it was blowing one of those James Bond/SpyHunter smoke screens out the exhaust. We eventually got it back to where it would start without using half a can of ether but now it had a slight knock to it (first time I'd ever heard of someone hydrolocking an engine w/oil instead of water). He managed to drive it for another 8 or 9 months before the knock turned into a rap and then a week or two after that the bearing finally spun.

This post has been edited by Broncobill78: 12 February 2008 - 09:28 PM

[bidibronco]

Hahaha! That reminds me! I had gotten off the ship a little early one day and was headed home when a fellow shipmate of mine gave me a call. He told me he was at the advanced near my house and was wondering if I could swing by. Being in my utilities I had to head home first. When I got there he had explained to me that his CEL had came on so he decided to stop by and get some oil. I asked why he got oil and he couldn't tell me. I asked if he had put any in and he said he did. I asked how much and he said "two bottles" but what he failed to tell me was it was to ONE GALLON BOTTLES! How he fit it all in there is a mistery to me but he did. So I had him get two big yellow drip catch things and made him pull the oil plug and drain it. (he was a "pretty boy" so he hated that). After that I had him get a new filter too, I figured since we were "changing" the oil anyways may as well do that too huh? Put all that on and put fresh oil in it and she fired up and did the James Bond thing as well. To his surprise the CEL was still on. I have an OBDII reader (forgot the dang thing at the house) so we headed that way and got it. After scanning it for him and figureing out his gas cap was loose he about flipped out. Pretty funny if you ask me but not everyone know's what they're doing and at least he gave it a whirl... I guess lots of oil will get by the rings?

[1978 bronco love]

im having the same problem but some times when i turn the motor by hand some times it will start to turn over but when its cold out like it is in ct no matter what i do it wont start i hope i dont have to but a new tranny that would suck

[bidibronco]

You may be missing some teeth on the flywheel and you may need a new battery with a higher cold cranking amps (CCA)

[Broncobill78]

What's it doing ? If the starter gear is hitting the flywheel when you try to start it but it starts OK if you spin the engine a bit by hand then like Bidi said you probably have a bad spot on the ring gear. You won't need a new tranny but you MAY need a new ringgear and if you have an auto unfortunately the only way to get to it is to remove the transmission. If you have a standard you can get to it without all the drama.

[bidibronco]

If you haven't noticed though, it seems like everyone who has the flexplate is braking them so if you do pull it off I would just spend the money to get a complete new flex plate. Just my $.02

[Jersey]

All this flexplate talk is making me wonder if the previous owner had it checked when the new trans was put in. I guess I'll just have to find out the hard way.