markaboo929
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Mooresville,NC
has anyone here experienced piston slap on engine start up? I had some piston slap when it got colder here in charlotte nc and i was coming to werk one day and low and behold engine noise!!! it broke a piston skirt on number 2 cyloinder from where the oil control ring land is down -completely took out the skirt-03 4.0 25,ooo miles-fixed it and now 1500 milkes later i get a rattling sound on startup.it come sin at 3k or so then after 5 min of running no more noise!!! it is a 5 spped nv3550-only noise when driving if i rev it by itself-no noise!!! is this common????piston slap again????or do i go chevy 5.3 v8?????