My Pete rebuild

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(12-12-2019 )tree98 Wrote:  I can't quite picture this. So Rawze is laying under the truck and at idle(roughly 800 rpm) reaches in and puts a sharpie mark on the dampener at the exact second the truck puffs out some smoke?

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No, standing on the side, by the filler tube holding the sharpie where the marking is on the front cover for the ABC marks on the dampener -truck was not running, just cranking it over with the starter, ecm unplugged. It isn't a dead hole, so we couldn't really tell by resistance when turning engine over by hand. I'd embellish the story by saying he held the sharpie like a lance and jousted it at the dampener, but I was at the key cranking and couldn't see. lol, Rawze, was it a flick or a stab maneuver? Either way, he did 2 marks that was accurate enough to point to which set of cylinders it was coming from, I guess the concrete proof will be when the pistons are pulled and I find the culprit.