6moose9
Registered User
Hey guys,
So a friend of mine recently gifted me a 1985 E350 with NA 6.9 in it.
The motor had an issue and he ended up parking it about 2 years ago until he told me if I wanted it I could take it. So a month ago I got it shipped to California from Arizona. I was able to get it running and from the story he gave me was that “he was replacing glow plugs and snapped a tip off in passenger cylinder number 1 and thought it blew out the exhaust and cracked the head/bent the valve. Was also overheating after he got new plugs in finally”. After scouring the forums and learning as much about IDI’s I decided to dive in. I was able to get it running and there was a pretty loud tick coming from the passenger side. So I decided to pull the heads. After reading the forums, a lot of people talked about just pulling the motor and some said you could do it motor in frame. I decided to leave it in and got to work. Before I pulled the heads I did a compression test and all cylinders were around 350/400(cold) except drivers side #2 which was 200. Tore everything out and pulled the heads. Was able to get both of by hand somehow by myself. I had to jack the passenger side of the motor up to get some room but both heads came out relatively easy. Not as big a fuss as everyone was stating on the internet.
Upon inspection both heads look good underneath. I haven’t pulled the valves yet.
BUT upon inspection of the cylinders they all looked good until I got to my low compression cyclinder when I found this.
A pretty big cracked in the cylinder wall and whatever is going on on the piston (the valves for this cyclinder look perfect underneath).
My question now is do I rebuild it or find a used runner.
My goal for this van is to build a conversion van so I can take my two sons camping and climbing so I want it to be super reliable.
Being that the cylinder wall is cracked, I read a little bit about resleeving motors but all the info seemed to be on 7.3’s. Are you able to resleeve 6.9s or and am I better off finding a core and rebuilding?
This is my first forum post so go easy on me guys. I am super grateful for all the information that this site has given me and would love some feedback!
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So a friend of mine recently gifted me a 1985 E350 with NA 6.9 in it.
The motor had an issue and he ended up parking it about 2 years ago until he told me if I wanted it I could take it. So a month ago I got it shipped to California from Arizona. I was able to get it running and from the story he gave me was that “he was replacing glow plugs and snapped a tip off in passenger cylinder number 1 and thought it blew out the exhaust and cracked the head/bent the valve. Was also overheating after he got new plugs in finally”. After scouring the forums and learning as much about IDI’s I decided to dive in. I was able to get it running and there was a pretty loud tick coming from the passenger side. So I decided to pull the heads. After reading the forums, a lot of people talked about just pulling the motor and some said you could do it motor in frame. I decided to leave it in and got to work. Before I pulled the heads I did a compression test and all cylinders were around 350/400(cold) except drivers side #2 which was 200. Tore everything out and pulled the heads. Was able to get both of by hand somehow by myself. I had to jack the passenger side of the motor up to get some room but both heads came out relatively easy. Not as big a fuss as everyone was stating on the internet.
Upon inspection both heads look good underneath. I haven’t pulled the valves yet.
BUT upon inspection of the cylinders they all looked good until I got to my low compression cyclinder when I found this.
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A pretty big cracked in the cylinder wall and whatever is going on on the piston (the valves for this cyclinder look perfect underneath).
My question now is do I rebuild it or find a used runner.
My goal for this van is to build a conversion van so I can take my two sons camping and climbing so I want it to be super reliable.
Being that the cylinder wall is cracked, I read a little bit about resleeving motors but all the info seemed to be on 7.3’s. Are you able to resleeve 6.9s or and am I better off finding a core and rebuilding?
This is my first forum post so go easy on me guys. I am super grateful for all the information that this site has given me and would love some feedback!
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