2012 Ram 1500 Dropped A Valve

[jws123]

Do you think it broke a valve spring or just worn down lifter/cam lobe and misfire code?

I took the valve cover off and saw a push rod bent like a taco on cylinder 6. Cam and lifters where done 60k ago but its covid era parts so who knows truck has 145k on it so just barely broke in haha. Thats where i left it I will probably make a seprate thread for My truck whenever i have time to get to it after this one is done.

 

[Wild one]

I took the valve cover off and saw a push rod bent like a taco on cylinder 6. Cam and lifters where done 60k ago but its covid era parts so who knows truck has 145k on it so just barely broke in haha. Thats where i left it I will probably make a seprate thread for My truck whenever i have time to get to it after this one is done.

Hopefully a valve didn't kiss the piston hard enough to bend the valve stem

 

[QwikKota]

I took the valve cover off and saw a push rod bent like a taco on cylinder 6. Cam and lifters where done 60k ago but its covid era parts so who knows truck has 145k on it so just barely broke in haha. Thats where i left it I will probably make a seprate thread for My truck whenever i have time to get to it after this one is done.

Not sure if that's worse than a broken spring but at least the valve is not unsupported.

 

[jws123]

I have acquired a box of pistons how the hell do you identify left and right side pistons? I never mix mine up so never needed to know lol I cant find much info on this.

 

[Wild one]

https://engineprofessional.com/articles/EPQ416_50-54.pdf

 

[jws123]

https://engineprofessional.com/articles/EPQ416_50-54.pdf

thanks!.
Side note i just came home with another 2010 ram 2500 full sized 8ft bed has a blown hemi!...this is the downside to being a mechanic I wasnt looking for another project but people offer **** to you and the deals are always way to good and then your house starts to look like a dam junk yard lol. This new one will be taking a back seat until this truck and my truck are rebuilt tho ahaha I ordered a ton of parts hopefully get both trucks running in the next 2 weeks.

 

[jws123]

Got the piston in and the head back on hopefully fire it up this weekend il record it incase it explodes hahahaa.

 

[Mike Wenrich]

So can we assume the cylinder walls cleaned up with the hone?

 

[jws123]

So can we assume the cylinder walls cleaned up with the hone?

yes it cleaned up well

 

[jws123]

Before I throw it out figured id show what the piston looked like got lucky as hell it smashed it right in the middle ahaha. Also I have everything buttoned up basically ready to fire up just gotta go grab oil and filter tomorrow overall tho it was a very clean engine suprisingly and the bearings looked like new.

 

[jws123]

Got it running runs good so far I will upload the first start video of it tomorrow. Now time to fix my own truck lmao.

 

[jws123]

sounds better then my 2014 ever did lol lifters are still working in tho has not run in years its at operating temp tho.

2012 ram first start

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[QwikKota]

That's crazy that piston damage was most self contained. Nice work.

 

[jws123]

That's crazy that piston damage was most self contained. Nice work.

yea hahah It runs good I am going to put around 1k miles on it while i fix my 2014 before i sell it to make sure its 100% and everything stays together.

 

[QwikKota]

Awesome skills you have to knock it out that quickly and on to the next project. I just sold a car I have been fixing up but it's been almost 2 years of repairs/maintenance here and there.

 

[jws123]

Well the vredict on my own truck 2014 was a collapsed lifter.. no cam damage I had trash covid era lifters in it so that came around to get me lol. I guess I gotta bite the bullet and spend $750 on OEM freaking crazy how expensive they are.

 

[QwikKota]

Are the cheap ones on eBay a scam or something?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/396893351162

 

[jws123]

Are the cheap ones on eBay a scam or something?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/396893351162

I would assume so yes ive heard tons of horror stories no idea what the deal is with those

 

[Wild one]

Are the cheap ones on eBay a scam or something?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/396893351162

Be very careful ordering those,as Ebay and Amazon both have a rep of chinese knock-off lifters that look very similiar to the OEM lifters,including the boxes they come in. Lifters aren't something you want to cheap out on,as they're not exactly easy or cheap to replace if they do fail

 

[QwikKota]

I figured they were too good to be true.