Let's play "Name those chunks stuck to the drain plug"
09-26-2010, 10:55 PM
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look at it like this if you paid 500.00 for the engine 2 years ago run it like hell and keep an ear open for new noises if you paid 2500 a month ago I would start looking for trouble can you fish around in the oil pan.. thru the sensor hole or in the drain plug hole with a magnet and see if you pick up any thing else ..If you ask me it looks like a pc of a lifter if it is that engines days are numbered good luck with it
09-27-2010, 07:14 AM
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I have a borescope that measures 3/8" so tonight I'm going to look down each pushrod hole and examine the lifters from the top. If I don't see anything unusual maybe I'll run it for the rest of the year. Otherwise it wouldn't be too bad to pull the cam and look at the lifters that way either. Maybe it's just time to buy those Mast LXR215 heads and put them on anyways 
Would you guys at least agree that the metal parts shown aren't from the rotating assembly? I'd hate to put a new set of heads on with a cam and lifters only to have the motor take a poop a few months later.
Would you guys at least agree that the metal parts shown aren't from the rotating assembly? I'd hate to put a new set of heads on with a cam and lifters only to have the motor take a poop a few months later.
09-27-2010, 07:16 AM
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Strictly speaking, one would have to assume that all the pieces originate from the same item, to say that none of them come from the rotating assembly.
Edit: On the other hand, my "gut feeling" about this is optimistic.
Edit: On the other hand, my "gut feeling" about this is optimistic.
