tecanic1 Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 among doing all the diesel/i do all the engine work on gas to ..but anyways have a ls with a 3.9 and 3k on it ..story is just driving along then started to skip and rattle ... diag was pcm failure codes and per pced to replace pcm did so started and codes are now gone but still skipping and rattling cylander five missing remove spark plug and found tip was damaged looked in side hole with flash light and you can see the rings on the piston ....thats right the piston was sideways in the bore ..i have seen some pretty destroyed engines but this takes the cake ... it realy did sound that bad running yes it rattled but it sounded like a heat sheild minus the smoke that was pouring out the tail pipe ..anyways just a little story of just driving along and it just started to skip.. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banghead.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Clayton Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 It truly is amazing how much abuse a car can take and still run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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