I can tell you that I was the same issue and kept trying all the cheap little fixes and I went on a road trip drive 480 miles, pulled into my destination and went to crank it the next morning and all hell broke loose. The #7 cylinder slung the follower to the side which then broke in half then one half blew a hole in the piston went into the crankcase turned into a pinball and just destroyed the engine. Got a crate motor and swapped out the followers for the ones with the new design. Just be mindful and don't do like I did and try every trick possible avoiding opening up the engine. I would take it back under warranty.

 

First off, thank you for all of the replies. I found the culprit and honestly, I’m quite embarrassed. I pulled the intake to checking wires for a break but no luck. I also wanted to verify that my “helper” got the vacuum line from the brake booster to the intake connected. Everything checked out and I was back at square one. When I grabbed the intake to put it back on, I found a shop rag blocking cyl 7. A FLIPPING SHOP RAG. I can only guess that when I covered the intake after removing the throttle body, the shop rag fell down and I didn’t notice. I always cover up “holes” that will swallow up a little bolt or nut. I am paranoid of dropping something into the engine. Lesson learned the hard way. I’ll use tape next time. Then on top of everything, I cracked the stock mani when I was torquing it down. Cyl 1 by the coolant cross over. But I still started it and it purrs like new. Wait. It is new. Oh well. I’ll order an after market intake tomorrow. Thanks again everyone.

GB

 

hey, glad you figured it out. And thanks for sharing the final chapter. Helps everyone out to learn the resolution.

 

Thank you for the follow up it means a lot to everyone . We are all humans we make mistakes but we learn . Don't feel bad we have all messed up worse than that . It was fixable some are not . Happy endings is all that counts .