If you are going to send your engine case to LN for 3.8 Nickies and you have some type of schedule you want to adhere to, I would suggest tearing down the engine and sending the case to them as soon as you can. My case was sent to them late July/early August 2018 and came back to my shop late January/early February 2019. At that time they were quoting an 8 week turnaround. Once the Nickies are installed, they have to send the case to a specialized plater for the Nikasil plating on the bores, and there are only a limited number of platers who do this and they all have a big backlog. So it's not really their fault, but it does take time. If you don't have a schedule. just be prepared to wait and be happy if it's done sooner.
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Originally Posted by Silber
Starting on the tear-down by pulling the plugs, and its looking like #2 ran lean till it fried. Would guess a partially plugged injector.
Plug is stuck in the head, cannot get it to come out.
Coil plug boot was partially stuck/melted to the plug.
The engine still ran, so hopefully no damage that makes the core non-rebuildable. Have a lot going on now so may not get the engine pulled and apart till spring. Thinking this rebuild may take a while due to life interfering with fun.
regards,
Silber
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Last edited by PaulE; 01-06-2021 at 04:54 PM.
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