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by **Begle1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:13 pm

What sorts of damage could one expect from, ohh, let's say 5-8 seconds of valve tappin' due to over-generous use of ether?

by **KTA** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:23 pm

Broken rings and pistons.

by **Begle1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:28 pm

What about on the valvetrain?

by **KTA** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:29 pm

Most likely none, perhaps a bent pushrod or two.

by **dpuckett** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:37 pm

Someone has to ask; may as well be me. WHY are you using ether in Arizona? Or did you take a trip to the mountains? We're still seeing mid to upper 80s for highs.

DP

by **Begle1** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:40 pm

Truck wouldn't start. Starved for fuel.

I guess the filter got clogged, compacted itself and sucked air.
After taking it up to 5000 RPM it cleared itself out and worked fine enough to limp the 2 miles back home.

by **Begle1** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:10 pm

KTA wrote:Most likely none, perhaps a bent pushrod or two.

Are there better-than-stock pushrods available that are worth it?

I'm changing out valve springs soon; pushrods are real easy to do at the same time, right?

by **mhuppertz** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:01 pm

If you didn't hear a BOOOM RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE the short block is most likely OK.

by **ford69557ci** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:00 pm

i get these worthles frieghtliner buses that wont start all of the time and they have a 5.9 24v. I ether the :grrr:

out of those engines and have never had a problem. They do sound kinda rough till they start runnin on thier own and clear out the ether but afterwards they keep runnin fine

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