Cascade Crew

[Al Hasse]

As some of you know, I had to warranty exchange the motor I just put into my Camaro. It was finished today and sounds so much better than the first one did from day one. No more rattles at start up, no more clunks at shut down. Still don't know what was wrong with it, but I'm glad to have it out of the car. So starts the break in all over again

[Schultzy89GTA]

Bound to find one with problems every now and then. Hopefully this one will treat you right.

Glad you got her back already.

-Schultzy

[Al Hasse]

Now I have a deep 3" scratch on the end of my hood (I think the repair shop bumped it wit a jack while it was off the car and on the ground) and already had a ding in the windshield fixed. Both are on the repair shop's dime. Now to find time to get it to a body shop to fix the scratch.

[QwkTrip]

I bought a new 4-bolt 350 block from Chevy many years ago and found a ton of rust on the crank bearing cap bolts. Four engine blocks later... Chevy actually shut down the manufacturing line to figure what was going on. Turns out these blocks were stored on a dock in Portland, OR and the moisture caused the rust. Got a new block out of Texas and no more problems. That was a frustrating few months.

[83Z28BlackBetty]

That sucks about your scratch man. I hope all goes well in getting it fixed. that would make me pised especially since you have such a nice paintjob.

~JAKE

[Al Hasse]

The shop manager was a nice enough guy and pointed it out to me and said he'd take care of it before he released the car to me. Body shop I'm going to is almost across the street from the repair shop/tire store.

Now to find the time off to take it in for the estimate, or find someone (maybe brother-in-law) to take it in for me.

[iansane]

Whoa. At least you've got a quiet dependable motor now. (At least we'll hope so).

[Al Hasse]

This morning I found out a couple of things. When the mechanic removed my temp sender for my gauges, the adapter (1/8" to 1/2" NPT) stayed in the head on the old motor, so he thinks that the sender was too small (1/8" NPT) and replaced it with a "stock" sender, now my temp gauge says I operate at 150* average and this morning I started with 25* water, thing is about 30*-40* off to the low side. Now he needs to remove the adapter from the old head (if he still has the motor) or get me a new sender from Dakota Digital.

Also, this morning, when I tried to use the defrost to clear the windshield, I slid the temp toward warm and heard a hiss which didn't go away. It deminished as the throttle was increased, but came back as it decreased. Mechanic found a "stray" vacuum line, installed a tee, and hooked it to the back of the intake manifold. Turns out this "stray" vacuum line was supposed to go to my heater control valve. I removed the tee and hooked the line up to the heater control valve where it belongs. So far so good.

[Xophertony]

there are bound to be a few issues like that. the vaccume lines on these cars are not as bad as some, but still pretty complicated if you are unfimiliar with the engine. he is of course doing all this followup work for free right?

[Al Hasse]

I fixed the vacuum line myself so I could use my heater & A/C.

The temp sender is on the shop since he took out a perfectly good digital one and replaced it with a "stock" one. The adapter fitting to make it fit the motor didn't come out with the sender and is still in the old head. He either needs to extract the adapter fitting and install the original sender or order a new one from Dakota Digital. I already called to let him know it's not right, but I'm not sure he understood too well as his English is hard for me to understand. I'm calling the shop supervisor tomorrow.