Recent content by Bondo07

You sure you don't want anything for it? I have a 06 parts trailblazer if you need something. Anyways message me your phone number so we can plan

You know I think ill take you up on that offer. If you still have it. Gas to get there and back is cheaper than an unknown condition core. I need 6 good rods now.

I'm trying to upload pics

Bit of a drive for my current budget.

Have? As in free? I might meet somewhere if possible. How far are you from Minneapolis area?

Crank kit (remanned crank and new bearings) is like 175 with the returned crank as a core, and ill have to re round the rods. Worst case scenario I got a parts motor I can steal the rods out of. So hopefully I can get away with a ~$300 fix.

Spun #4 rod bearing. Got the engine out and tore down in record time. I think we got it all torn down in under 8 hours.

Well back to square one again. I got 3k miles on the rebuild before it started knocking. Apparently what happened is I didn't wash the reground crank good enough when I put it in. I don't know for certain but that's the most likely scenario. Be ready for some more teardown pics coming soon...

Ok so update. Took the fan and shroud off and fabricated a crank pulley holding tool out of some heavy angle iron I had laying around. Retorqued the crank pulley bolt, trimmed and adjusted the fan shroud that was rubbing (one of the codes that popped up was fan speed sensor) and had a case...

What a read.... Thank you though. I'm hoping for the best. I really can't tear into this again till I get my cavalier fixed. So quick troubleshooting is hopefully the trick. And remember how I said my backup was on its last legs? Yea the transmission is completely locked up. I had to use 4lo to...

That actually gives me a few more ideas. I'm going to retorque the main pulley/balancer bolt to eliminate that. And if that and the case relearn doesn't solve the issue, its back to square 1 again. I know for a fact its timed properly. I triple checked it after spinning it over by hand many...

Cel turned off now for some reason. Haven't done the case relearn yet though. Still randomly dies when I stop. Died when I stopped to turn on my way to work, died when I parked. A.c. isn't on. Gonna stop at the parts store tomorrow to run the scanner on it.

It died pulling into work. It died when I got home and parked in the driveway. A.c. wasn't on. I'm gonna try to clean the throttle body again. I got a new parts washer I wanna try out. Would that be a bad idea?

Good news and bad news, good news is the idle surging is NOT because of the vvt issues. Bad news is I'm pretty sure my a.c. compressor is having issues. Gonna swap it for the one on the parts truck and see if that fixes it. Idles just fine without the a.c./defrost, once I turn it on it surges...

Check engine light came back on. Same codes. So time to do a case relearn and hope that fixes it. Its not stumbling as bad at idle as it did before, so that's a plus right?