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trop-a-cal
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Jan 11, 2014

454 Head back on engine started #7 piston noise

Now with full compression on both heads the 43,000 mile 1997 454 vortec has the same noise that it had prior to it shutting down completely. The noise was checked by removing spark plug wire and heari...
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K_Charles
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Jan 11, 2014
You said you put the heads back on so you did the top end and not the bottom? If you got water in the cylinder you may have a bent food, did you check piston hight when you had the head off? Buy a crate motor and be done with it.

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