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WOW, just WOW.
So a car is brought to me with a motor that was just rebuilt and has no oil pressure. Pull out the motor found the problem and put it back in. Perfect oil pressure, I let it idle for about 30 min to get all air out of coolant system and while i clean up the garage. Still perfect. Go for a test drive and it starts knocking REAL bad. Get back check rockers, all tight. Pull the motor yesterday and one rod cap is about halfway off. The rest are only finger tight.
WOW, just WOW.
WOW, just WOW.
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Step away from the engine and drop your wrenches... Your killin days are over. LOL
I work at a Chrysler dealer and you should see some of the **** that gets drug in here. I had a 2.7l v-6 that the timing chain was noisy in so I pull it apart and there is a block of wood wedged between the tensioner bar and the block b/c the guy broke the tensioner retaining bolts off.
I work at a Chrysler dealer and you should see some of the **** that gets drug in here. I had a 2.7l v-6 that the timing chain was noisy in so I pull it apart and there is a block of wood wedged between the tensioner bar and the block b/c the guy broke the tensioner retaining bolts off.
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Step away from the engine and drop your wrenches... Your killin days are over. LOL
I work at a Chrysler dealer and you should see some of the **** that gets drug in here. I had a 2.7l v-6 that the timing chain was noisy in so I pull it apart and there is a block of wood wedged between the tensioner bar and the block b/c the guy broke the tensioner retaining bolts off.
I work at a Chrysler dealer and you should see some of the **** that gets drug in here. I had a 2.7l v-6 that the timing chain was noisy in so I pull it apart and there is a block of wood wedged between the tensioner bar and the block b/c the guy broke the tensioner retaining bolts off.
dam, a friend brought me a (towed) his 02 gt because engine was seized after having cams installed by some mod motor shop.
all valves were bent, incorrect installation of valvetrain and timing parts.
another friend had problems with his engine after getting cam swap from supposed ls shop. cam was way off, ran like crap, shops excuse was that cam was too big for dd. charged on bill correct degreed cam install. i pulled the cover, had stock sprockets and cam was off by 2 teeth. cam only had 2 bolts, the other was broken in cam. couldnt even install cam dot-dot correct
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good stories
Amazing some of the crap you come across!
My buddy bought a K5 blazer this winter with a "rebuilt" 350 that had never been fired....they just couldn't ever get it started. A military airplane mechanic supposedly put the motor together. We drug it home and fixed the ignition system and fired it....never heard such a racket out of a motor, sounded like every single bearing was spun. Pulled it out and tore it down only to find....you're gonna love this......the pistons were brand new stock bore 4" pistons in .040" cylinders. The crank was turned 30/30 but installed with standard main/rod bearings. I hope I never end up on a plane this guy has worked on!!!
My buddy bought a K5 blazer this winter with a "rebuilt" 350 that had never been fired....they just couldn't ever get it started. A military airplane mechanic supposedly put the motor together. We drug it home and fixed the ignition system and fired it....never heard such a racket out of a motor, sounded like every single bearing was spun. Pulled it out and tore it down only to find....you're gonna love this......the pistons were brand new stock bore 4" pistons in .040" cylinders. The crank was turned 30/30 but installed with standard main/rod bearings. I hope I never end up on a plane this guy has worked on!!!
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So a car is brought to me with a motor that was just rebuilt and has no oil pressure. Pull out the motor found the problem and put it back in. Perfect oil pressure, I let it idle for about 30 min to get all air out of coolant system and while i clean up the garage. Still perfect. Go for a test drive and it starts knocking REAL bad. Get back check rockers, all tight. Pull the motor yesterday and one rod cap is about halfway off. The rest are only finger tight.
WOW, just WOW.
WOW, just WOW.
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Sounds real familiar, I've gotten a few myself from around here with similar issues. Last one towed in had a pinched o-ring (and resulting spun rod bearing) and a big piece clipped off of a mls header gasket sittin in the head under the VC. Guy at least got 20 or 30 miles out of it. Least the rod caps were tight tho DANG.
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Ok, I'll add to this. A few years back a woman brought me a nissan Stanza that had a bad miss and a extensive oil leak. A quick check showed #3 cylinder was not running and had no compression at all. Because it was leaking oil all over my shop floor I decided to check out the oil leak. When I got under the car I saw a chunk of metal lodged between the rack and the sub frame. It was about a 4" piece of a connecting rod. I thought that was odd until I saw the oil was comming from a racket ball sized hole in the back of the block. She later told me a few weeks ago the car was making a lot of racket, but after a few days it stopped. That was the same time she said when the engine started to run rough (and the same time the rod exited the block). She didn't care about it running rough, just wanted the oil to stop leaking on her garage floor.
Get this...Jiffy Lube told her it needed a oil pan gasket and new plugs and wires.
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Get this...Jiffy Lube told her it needed a oil pan gasket and new plugs and wires.
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