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RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

I think maybe the rocker arm damage did occur when I lost power and started smoking but I did not shut it down right away. I limped on to the off-road park which was probably another 8 miles or so. Wheeled the jeep at the park for a couple hours and then drove to the hotel about 10 miles or so...
- KnightHauler
- Post #17
- May 19, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

Too late for that also. I had already pulled most of the injectors before I found the push rod. I was on the next to the last one! Now I will have to install the new ones before I can do a compression test. Still having trouble understanding how this rod could have been bent and the arm cracked...
- KnightHauler
- Post #14
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

Too late on the injectors........I already bought them before I found this problem. Guess a compression check wouldn't hurt though.
- KnightHauler
- Post #11
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

I bought the truck in SC and drove it to Maryland without any issues. Only issue was it was hard to start and ran pretty rough when it started. The real problems started when I was towing my Jeep up to Rausch Creek in PA two weeks later. On the last steep incline I started losing power and...
- KnightHauler
- Post #9
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

I have visually checked all of the other rocker arms and they all look OK. Kind of hard to tell with the push rods. I will take another look at them tomorrow. As for intake or exhaust, hate to sound like an idiot but I am not sure. It was the forward rod/arm on the number 3 cylinder.
- KnightHauler
- Post #6
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

Thanks much for the quick reply!! I just found this site today so I will probably posting a good bit while I try and get this thing running. I have new injectors to put in before I can fire it up again.
- KnightHauler
- Post #3
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: 94-97 Tech
RUH ROH; this can't be good; bent rod & cracked arm!

This isn't exactly what I wanted my first post here to be like but here it goes! Well, this is my first time removing injectors and it was going along pretty smoothly removing the injectors on my 96 7.3 PSD until I got to the number 3 cylinder. My hand brushed against the rocker arm and it was...
- KnightHauler
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- May 17, 2012
- Replies: 17
- Forum: 94-97 Tech