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by CuttingEdge » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:32 pm
Yeah it is the intake manifold...sorry, it has been a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG time since I was in Diesel Tech school (1992).
It could have been on its side at one time, but it has been sitting right side up since at least 1990. If it was on its side, it would have just been the brief time it took to haul it out of the reefer trailer, to put into the shop.
The engine is not seized. I have rolled it over by hand, and it was sort of "set", but did not take much to get the engine to roll over by hand. But it will not roll over by the starter. It tries (it is a new starter), but as it comes up on compression the starter stalls out. But I only had (1) small car size battery for it, so I thought I would add a second.
But upon seeing the oil in the intake manifold, I thought maybe I should check things out before really trying to crank it over with lots of amperage.
The only thing I can think of, is someone dumped a quart of oil down the intake manifold upon storing it, and maybe rolled the engine over to get the oil in the cylinders. Maybe that is why it was not seized after sitting for 32 years? It is kind of hard to guess on what someone else did 32 years ago.
I did take the valve cover off and rolled the engine over by hand and saw the valves moving. I did not look to see if every one was moving, but jeesh it looked like a brand new engine inside there, so I was not concerned.
I tried taking off the injectors to see what was sitting on top of the pistons, but no amount of prying was getting them out of there.
I make the assumption that the engine was running when it was removed from the trailer. My uncle bought the trailer in 1988 and used it to store material for his carpentry business, so the reefer was not used. The chiller (refrigerator part) was all torn down, so I assume the engine was saved, and stored in the shop because it was still good. The company that owned the trailer went out of business about that era, and with the chiller shot, my uncle probably got the trailer for a very low price.
But it does not say much about Carrier. That reefer only averaged 289 hours a year for its 9 year lifespan. Or put another way: just 100 days operating time in 9 years.
I have no intention of traveling to my grave in a well manicured body; instead I am going to slide into heaven with a big power turn, totally wore out with busted knuckles, jump off my dozer loudly yelling, Woo Hoo, another Shepard has just arrived!