18HP Intek Knock From Rod?

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Also could be a buildup of carbon in the combustion chamber. And the piston is hitting some carbon.
 
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Fish said:
Also could be a buildup of carbon in the combustion chamber. And the piston is hitting some carbon.
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When I turn the engine by hand back and forth you can hear a clatter noise. Though on another newer intek with way less hours I don't hear that noise.

Also the knocking intek is puffing out some black smoke and the spark plug had oil on it. Bad rings?

Are these engine's worth rebuilding to sell?
 
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Indicates it could be a blown head gasket,
Pull the head and look.

If it has a large buildup of carbon, scrape it off, and put it back together and start it with the old gasket for just a little. See if it gets any quieter.

Pulling the head is not hard to do.
 
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Fish said:
Indicates it could be a blown head gasket,
Pull the head and look.

If it has a large buildup of carbon, scrape it off, and put it back together and start it with the old gasket for just a little. See if it gets any quieter.

Pulling the head is not hard to do.
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Yea I've replaced lots of head gaskets on these. Just seems like I'm getting more inteks lately that are knocking. I assume it's the rod needing replaced?
 
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It could be that all of the oil from the bad head gasket has cooked a bunch of carbon, taking the head off can tell you. If after you pull the head off, you can check for a bad rod, and give you a better idea what you are looking at.
 
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darrinster said:
Yea I've replaced lots of head gaskets on these. Just seems like I'm getting more inteks lately that are knocking. I assume it's the rod needing replaced?
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In my experience a knock in these engines is most likely the counter balance system. Apparently as a mechanic you should know to post the engine model number. IF this is a 31 series, note that they made a drastic change in counter balance and sump in later models. IF it is the counter balance then no, not practical to rebuild.

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Tinkerer200 said:
In my experience a knock in these engines is most likely the counter balance system. Apparently as a mechanic you should know to post the engine model number. IF this is a 31 series, note that they made a drastic change in counter balance and sump in later models. IF it is the counter balance then no, not practical to rebuild.

Walt Conner
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Yea it's a 31 series. I had the head off and pushed on the piston but didn't feel any play. So I assume it's the counter balance. I've acquired quite a few knocking engines this year. I've been swapping over older briggs and kohler commands.

I wonder if Briggs will bring out a new single engine anytime soon?
 
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