Unclewolverine
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Kansas
I put in a used junkyard engine about 18k ago. I was in a bind, low on cash but the original engine was completely shot. So I took a chance on one with a basically unknown history. Pulled it from a 99 grand but it has a build date of 96 so obviously came from somewhere else. donor was beat hard but i was told it ran when the trans shot. Pan did not have a lot of sludge in it, so I re-sealed everything, put it in and crossed my fingers. Lifters clattered so bad it sounded like a diesel on start up but it pretty much eventually went away at running temperature The engine has no blow by, does not use any oil and runs great. But the start up lifter clatter just won't go away no matter what I try. I'm running Rotella and change it early most changes, and I've run seafoam through the oil a couple of times. Has anyone had any luck with anything else? As long as its still running good I'm not going to risk screwing something up by pulling the head to put new lifters in. Oil pressure is great, 60 at road speed, 25-30 at idle on a 100 day running mail.