Stumped! Anyone else have any idea.

[Redtruck-VA]

Often when a valve drops it damages the piston, cylinder wall, head with broken pieces blown into the intake which can enter other cylinders damaging them.

 

[chri5k]

This thread kind of got hijacked by PGFREE. No offense. I just wonder what happened tp 03hemiram7.

 

[PGFREE]

Exactly what happened Redtrk.

 

[Redtruck-VA]

Exactly what happened Redtrk.

Yep, engines don't like hard pieces floating around inside them. There is no rhyme or reason when these defective springs would break. Some with low miles others with high miles. There were those that let go at idle and others at 6000.

 

[Bloody_Knuckles]

My truck has 172k on the engine. Maybe I should invest in some cheap insurance and change all the valve springs and keepers.

 

[PGFREE]

I should’ve been that smart BloodyK!

 

[Redtruck-VA]

I think only a small percentage of the trucks had the problem, but when they did it was often a broken valve spring. And strangely it was often #6 that broke.. now with the truck being 17 years old the ones that were weak should have broke by now. ?