Ok, I'll start this off by admitting I'm an idiot, lol! I made a foolish mistake that could have potentially cost me thousands of dollars. The other day I pulled my Edelbrock 1407 off my truck to do some maintenance and I stuffed the intake manifold with 4 rags so nothing could fall into the engine like dirt, washers, nuts whatever. A few hours later I pulled the rags, bolted on the 1407 and fired up the ol 454. Well to my surprise the ol 454 started knocking, smoking and barely ran. I thought I dropped a washer or something down the intake because I've never seen an engine do that before so I shut it off thinking I blew the engine and started calling around for a replacement 454. Then I started thinking if it was a washer bouncing around in the cylinder the plug would be damaged so I pulled the plugs and they were fine so I fired it back up and all hell broke loose but this time it was knocking, smoking and now blowing fire out the 3" tail pipe, I figured if it was going to die it was going to die in a big way so I floored it about 5 times and BLAM, a smoldering piece of a cotton rag shot out the tailpipe and landed about 6' feet from the truck! LOL, I'M NOT JOKING! As soon as it exited the tailpipe the 454 smoothed out and ran great! Is it obvious what happened now? I thought I pulled out all the rags but I accidentally left one inside the intake and it got sucked into the cylinder, chewed up and spit out the tailpipe! Unfreakingbelievable! Here are the pics for your entertainment!
THIS RAG IS THE SAME SIZE AS THE ONE THAT GOT CHEWED UP!
THE AFTERMATH!!!
11-05-2013, 07:29 PM
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