Hi guys, I wanted to update you’s in where I’m at, haven’t gotten far, and I have a few questions. I took the parts that I had off up to Mike, Sonny got back to me and unfortunately he says he no longer gets involved with the internal work anymore. I wasn’t looking for him to do any work, but I respect that he doesn’t want to be involved. I had made sure he understood that I wanted to pay him but that was his decision. I had remembered that I had did a roofing replacement for a couple last summer and Mike is the lead tech at Beattie Dodge , I remebered now that he was the one to bring me in the shop years ago before I had met him. He had figured out a bad wire in the harness for me. Anyways I took my left bank head, parts to him, first thing he grabbed for was the lifters, he said they looked fine but that he would replace them since they were out anyways. After showing him the broken spring on cylinder 3 exhaust he grabbed the pushrod for cylinder 3 exhaust and rolled it and noticed it was slightly bent. He told me I would be fine replacing the spring and pushrod only, he did say to have a look at the cam with a bore scope or even a pen light. I don’t have a pen light but I do have a cheap mastercraft inspection camera. I took a look at left bank cam with the camera, only thing I could tell for sure was that the cam was refracting light evenly across the cam, I then took a screwdriver and very very lightly ran it across the cam through the lifter hole to see if I could feel any type of ridges which I couldn’t. Not highly scientific and I didn’t rotate the crank at all. I’m finding myself a little stuck as to what I should do, I know that the safest thing to do is just change everything and not have to worry but I’m also thinking there is nothing wrong with the cam and hate to do more work than I need to especially since I struggle every step of the way with this. Here’s a couple of thoughts I’m having that I could/should do? Rotate the cam while looking at it with the inspection camera? Good idea? A question about the lifters, should I be able to press and release the little button on the MDs lifters? On the mds lifters for cylinder 1 I can click the little buttons but in cylinder 7 no click on them. I’m also torn on what to do with the tight bank, I’m thinking for piece of mind I should be taking that head off to inspect the push rods, inspect the lifters/ basically replace them because if I take the right bank head off I will definitely replace those lifters no matter what they look like.
