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09-04-2009, 04:47 PM
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Valve came apart.
I started taking things apart today and I knew it was going to be bad when I removed the valley pan to see that the camshaft had broken into 3 pieces and one part is wedging the crank. I also noticed pieces of piston and rings up in the valley cover. Not good.
When I took the drivers head off, I saw that the #5 exhaust valve had broken (factory 2 piece valve I'm assuming?) It seems that when it came apart that the piston completly obliterated from the rpm's I was turning at the time, and all the coolant came in because the wrist pin dug a hole in the bore. Complete destruction of the block. Looks like I'll be in the market for a new engine.  Picture 1 shows the broken camshaft Pic 2 shows the valve head missing. (chunk of metal above the chamber is a piece of the piston that was stuck where the valve should have been) Picture 3 shows how none of the piston was left on the pin.
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1969 GTO. Full rotisserie restoration "completed" in 2014. 5.3L "LM7", TKO600, 3.55's out back. Big cam coming soon. 
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09-04-2009, 05:05 PM
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Wow, that's the worst kersplosion I've seen in awhile. Do you think it dropped the valve first, or broke the cam first?
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