NEED LT5 TIMING FAIL HELP!!!!

[oricale]

Hey all!!,... the car is in NY I have paid for it (Mostly) and I drove up from DC to inspect the vehicle,...I am picking it up next weekend or the weekend after,...I al dealing with a few things:

Getting it from NY to DC...Trailer ect...I was going to Trailer it,..but If I could drive it....!!!!awesome!!!.

anyway I am no star-dreamer...I am prepared for whatever is good or bad,..but I want a plan,..do we have any members in the Long Island area????

[FU]

Originally Posted by oricale

do we have any members in the Long Island area????

Yes here, where is the car located ? Is this a white car with a red stripe ?

[oricale]

Uhhhhhh,....yeah????

[oricale]

Why???????????(nervous!!)God this is a small community!!!!Very cool

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by FU2

Yes here, where is the car located ? Is this a white car with a red stripe ?

I thought you lived around there frank

[FU]

I saw that car sitting at a repair facility on Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst for a few weeks during the month of August. Caught my eye on the way to and from work. That shop is a good shop , but I doubt that they know much if anything about the LT5. I wondered why the owner took the car to that shop instead of the Vette Dr's ? The Vette Dr's are about the most knowledgable shop around here with the LT5's.
Next Saturday my green car will be making a trip from here to it's new home in South Carolina.

Well anyway , how can I be of help ?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by FU2

I saw that car sitting at a repair facility on Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst for a few weeks during the month of August. Caught my eye on the way to and from work. That shop is a good shop , but I doubt that they know much if anything about the LT5. I wondered why the owner took the car to that shop instead of the Vette Dr's ? The Vette Dr's are about the most knowledgable shop around here with the LT5's.
Next Saturday my green car will be making a trip from here to it's new home in South Carolina.

Well anyway , how can I be of help ?

YOU SOLD THE GREEN CAR! i'm actually sad now

[FU]

Originally Posted by Kevin

YOU SOLD THE GREEN CAR! i'm actually sad now

Yes.

Here is a copy of what was written on the e-bay add :

The car does need some mechanical work, the other day pulling out of the drive way the timing chain tensioner went bad on the passenger side. I had it checked by a shop and after doing a compression test and a leak down test it was found that only 4 lifters need replacing on the passenger side all else check out good.

[oricale]

yep apparently when thye pulled the cam cover and oil pan and found no evidence of an issue, they did the test and couldnt figure it out,...soooo they did NOT want to work on it....SO here we are...

yeah I had him pull it from ebay when I bought it,...I questioned the lifter comment,..

I think I am going to trailer it regardless. I have rebuilt from the ground up 2 corvettes and 1969 mach 1......BUT ZERO LT5's ,so I am tapping the collective genius here.

I would like to talk personally with someone close to the wantah area if possible

[Pete]

Lifters rarely have issues,not that it can't happen but i never seen or heard of a stocker having lifter issues.

I have seen tensioners freeze/lock up it sounds like lifters (like loose rocker arms in a small block chevy) i would guess this is why valve/cam cover is off.

I can say this your Z is most likely ok just something silly/stupid wrong just need to diagnose.

Also if the LT5 has a miss it sounds like a box of rocks.
Start with common issues.
You can do a search on this site.
or
Ask away.

Sounds like you can wrench do it yourself and save some money unless you have no time to mass with it.

Hope you fix her up right.
Pete

P.S.
Frank, WTF sold the Big Green Machine,let me guess making room for new C6 ZR1.
Does this mean we won't see you at BG anymore.