68_sixpeashooter
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So I got my mustang up and running not too long ago. Barely breaking in the freshly rebuilt six. The first 500 miles were great ran like a champ and pulled hard. I never redlined it I always just shifted at 3000 rpm.Then I did the recommended 500 mile break in oil change using 10w30 according to my mechanic. Ran great for about 50 miles and I start getting valve chatter. I'm not too mechanically inclined to pop open the valve cover and do any work to it so I took it back to my mechanic. Oh and btw the carb was leaking gas on top of the headers and it seemed like oil was spilling somewhere around the harmonic balancer. So the point is I took it back and he fixed the valve chatter problem. The carb leaking stopped and so did the oil leak. He said something about the rocker arms werent making contact with the valves. I drove it home fine yesterday. No noise or nothing but I did notice that the oil pressure gauge was at about 1/4 and it use to run at about Twice as that . so I go cruising with my buddies tonight, we drove about a total of 70 miles. Just when I'm getting home the valve chatter starts again!!!! funny thing is the car still pulls the same, but now I'm super pissed. I just paid 175 to get the valves adjusted and the same thing all over again. Almost makes me wanna sell my car, but I just worked so hard for it that I'm not going to let it go. Right now I'm broke as a joke and I need opinions on what I should do. I also smelt burnt oil coming from under the hood. I spent too much money on the motor for it to not to be useful.! Problem is I had no warrantee on the rebuild. I have a freshly built 289 in the backyard with a 2 barrel intake which I could use the carb from my six on it. It's an autolite 2100.!all it needs is a distributer, wires, plugs, headers, valve covers and an air filter. I'm thinking of just throwing that In my mustang if this inline six doesn't work out, but then I wouldn't be part of this inline six family. I've learned a lot here and most of you guys helped with the build. As far as pointing me in the right direction. Starting with the falcon six handbook. Like I said im not too hands on with motors but I can probably do a thing or two with the right guidance. If the six needs a complete overhaul I'm probably just dropping in the 289, but that's just last resort. Sorry for my rant im a bit loopy because I had to take my anxiety medication as soon as I heard that valve chatter. I need some opinions from you guys because I don't really wanna spend more money on this six cylinder. I'm probably going to have to spend more money but I atleast don't wanna give it to my mechanic.
Thanks, Giovanni
Thanks, Giovanni