Bad sounds after maintenance

[bcjjones]

New rebuilt head, new water pump, timing components, starter, battery, clutch, cv axles, and tune up. NOW it sounds a little bit like a rod bearing went out. Sounds like I swapped in a diesel. What's weird tho is it was running fine but started misfiring pretty bad. This was from one of the shops I work at to the other location. No knock or anything but a bad misfire. Parked it, worked the rest of the day. Started driving it home, still missing and about a mile from my house is when it started sounding like a diesel. So I pulled over and its sitting a gas station till I get off work today. No overheating, great oil pressure, timing is on poitlnt.

Hoping and praying that maybe its a bad fuel injector? Because it was missing pretty bad and from what I've been told and read, sometimes a bad injector can cause an engine to sound like its knocking or like a diesel? Any thoughts?

Ill be getting under and draining the oil when I can. Ill see if there's some nice pretty shiny metal in it. Just curious of how likely y'all think it could be a faulty injector?

 

[Kait]

Definitely check your injectors, spark plugs, and wires first. Rule out the easy stuff.

 

[bryanwheat]

Check the timing marks.

 

[greene3543]

My manifold on my non-turbo cracked and made it sound like a diesel if that helps at all, but i doubt that'd cause misfire.

 

[bcjjones]

Timing marks are dead on. And I forgot to mention that after I stopped I could barely get it to start, and when it did I had to keep my foot on the gas to keep it running. It was missing really bad then, could barely get it to climb rpms

 

[bryanwheat]

So you checked them after it started doing this, or they were dead on when you originally set it?

 

[TSi Kid]

Have a video you can post up?

 

[bcjjones]

Well I checked it before I started driving home, technically before it started so ill check it again when I get off. Defininately not a bent valve do kinda curious what else timing would have to do with it? Detonation?

I can try to take a video for y'all if I get it started

I really wish it was a turbo! Then id be happy to rebuild the motor! So much money into what was supposed to save me money over driving my truck!