Some great news fellas! So we wet through the pressure testing, leak down and its not as easy as it sounds. Takes a crap ton of effort to turn it over, and to land exactly TDC on compression is a real challenge. Couple we couldn't do because when we added air, it cranked over! Number 7 was the furthest off, about 10-15%, but started thinking. We really never ran this hard after ronnie sent it, then we stored it like a treasure for 2 1/2th years and landed here. Started wondering if the crud we saw was zinc additive or just waste because it sat.
Avery and I started a full flush. We started by draining the oil and took a sample in a clear mixing cup. We flushed the oil and went with new Rotela conventional 15-40 (is this correct?) and added a bottle of Lucas break-in zinc additive. We pulled off the old filter, felt like it was welded on and looked through it and NO metal. We then put a 5 gal bucket of race fuel next to the car and jumped from there straight to the fuel pump.
We pulled the valve covers, checked to see we were mostly correct in the settings , lubed/saturated all the rockers with oil, then fire her with the covers off. Oil didnt immediately come through the rockers , took about 60 seconds, but was there drizzling oil on them. Pressure hit 75/8- right away, and we kept her idling at 1k, watching the rockers. We did see drops of water coming through the rockers at first. We let it dribble through for about 2/3 min, then shut her down drain the entire oil system and took another sample. From this sample we now had three clear cups with oil. One cup was straight from the bottle, the second our most recent and third oldest. They were getting more like the bottle.
We followed this process again, and each time took a sample, oil became better and better. We also tapped paper towels to the walls to watch the water discharge from the exhaust and noticed less and less. In the third change, we let her come to temp, let the coolant circulate and watch the rockers. Each time we were getting smoked out but watched like a hawk to see if we could notice water...TO this point, we cant see any, and heres the pics of the oil now... Im hoping you guys will say we dodged a bullet, but if we need to test more, umber 7 we can. Im thinking we we have gunk in the system, old fuel. It was pure yellow when we siphoned the tank, even seeped through the bass carb gaskets until we tightened everything. .
Whats our next steps, timing check and compression test again? She sounded SOOOOOO sweet :>)
