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Gray Ghost · 03-30-2009, 10:20 PM

I am lucky to have made it home today. Vern and I were unloading the truck....[hauled a whole bunch of demo lumber home] and afterwards I hooked up the trailer for it's trip into town tomorrow. While I was attaching the chains and lights, I noticed my left leg getting a bath...an oil bath....oil was spraying out of the tailpipe and dripping like a bad faucet. I knew the rings were a problem but today it escalated.

So it's official....I got 24,156 miles out of the rebuild and the motor has to be re-ringed. All this after 9 broken pushrods, 4 cracked rocker arms and a bad balancer SINCE THE REBUILD! It's gotten so comical I can't even get mad anymore.

Unfortunately, I cannot afford the 5.3 swap yet so we'll have to re-ring and put the motor back together instead of going camping this weekend. I sure hope this ends the bad luck trail with this motor.

03-30-2009, 10:20 PM	#1
Gray Ghost Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Terrell, TX Posts: 1,967	Catastrophic engine failure avoided by a hair.... I am lucky to have made it home today. Vern and I were unloading the truck....[hauled a whole bunch of demo lumber home] and afterwards I hooked up the trailer for it's trip into town tomorrow. While I was attaching the chains and lights, I noticed my left leg getting a bath...an oil bath....oil was spraying out of the tailpipe and dripping like a bad faucet. I knew the rings were a problem but today it escalated. So it's official....I got 24,156 miles out of the rebuild and the motor has to be re-ringed. All this after 9 broken pushrods, 4 cracked rocker arms and a bad balancer SINCE THE REBUILD! It's gotten so comical I can't even get mad anymore. Unfortunately, I cannot afford the 5.3 swap yet so we'll have to re-ring and put the motor back together instead of going camping this weekend. I sure hope this ends the bad luck trail with this motor. __________________ Kelly '05 GMC Sierra SLE Z71 Bone stock except for new bed rail caps. Last edited by Gray Ghost; 03-30-2009 at 10:25 PM.