Hecka,
Actually Vicki goes to the mechanics tomorrow morning to have a brand new, zero mile, Isuzu 3.5L engine with the newer rings and pistons installed in her. Since I really didn't know what the problem with cylinder three was, and since she is my daily driver and I can't have her down for long, I thought it was best to just go with a new engine. I get to keep the old engine, and I will be tearing into to figure out what is going on in cylinder three, but I just didn't have the time to lay the VX up long enough to tear the engine down and figure out what was going on. My fear was that I would get into the engine and realize that it needed to be re-built, at which point the VX would have been laid up for even longer and could have run into who knows how much money.
I don't know how to drill the holes in the pistons, but the guy that I have been talking to, Jerry Lemond, does. Jerry is something of an Isuzu guru. Having worked for Isuzu for 25 years the man knows just about everything that there is to know about any Isuzu. He has drilled the pistons on a bunch of Isuzu engines and he said that he would tell me how to do it if I wanted to. I don't think that he is on VX info, but I think he prowls The Planet ( http://www.planetisuzoo.com/ ) often. I would be happy to email or call him to see if he could give us a "how-to" on drilling the pistons.
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Originally Posted by MSHardeman
