Follow up on ERA717

[fdjake]

I'm not mad at all...I'm just being honest.

My FE guy immediately mentioned the common issue of intake gaskets on FE engines. BUT....He took the time to FOLLOW me for a few miles while I ran the car through the gears to see exactly when it smoked....So, he did a leak down test of the passengers side bank of cylinders because (as you also stated) the majority of the smoke was coming from there. The motor had good leak down numbers. As your compression test confirmed. BUT...As you know, that doesn't mean everything is OK...So he ran the bore scope down. I stood NEXT to him as he scoped those cylinders. That fouled plug you have a picture of??? Take another look at that cylinder. You missed it.

Your expert missed the PITTING on the cylinder walls. It's there man...Recheck the passenger side cylinders CAREFULLY. Once my FE expert spotted the pitting on the cylinder walls there was no point in doing the work you just did....It's all coming back off to fix the real issue.

That motor is going to use 1 Qt of oil every 100-150 miles until that engine gets a rebuild.

ERA replaced the intake gasket set and when that car was picked up it didn't smoke like it did when you purchased it, but it still was using 1 Qt of oil every 100-150 miles. Wait....You'll see, your oil consumption problem has not been addressed.

I don't care if that engine has a fuel injection system installed on it. It's not changing the fact that the cylinder walls are pitted from what looked like rust. If you drop a bore scope down a cylinder and can easily see pitting and even rust in those pits you have a rebuild in your future.....And as I'm sure you know, a compression test will show great numbers as long as those pitted areas are in the middle of the cylinders. BUT, your engine is still gonna use excessive amounts of oil until the cylinder wall issue is addressed. This isn't rocket science. Pits in cylinder walls will cause oil consumption. End of story.

A gasket set and carb change isn't fixing it.

I wish I was wrong.....But that bore scope doesn't lie. I had ANOTHER shop check the same cylinders and they found the pitting in 5 minutes after rotating the crank just a few degrees.

Re-sleeve that motor or get a short block and you'll have a perfect car!!! As stated is the ad.

But telling folks a gasket set fixed it is not reality.