Oldiron440
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Well the verdict is in on the 318, undersized crankshaft and standard bearings. On the mains only.
Makes sense, who figured it out?Well the verdict is in on the 318, undersized crankshaft and standard bearings. On the mains only.
I think I mentioned it was a likely cause. I've run into it before.Makes sense, who figured it out?
One guy i know says you cant buikd an engine in a garage.its too dusty. I almost agree, but he was an aircraft engineer.Why do all these boobtube monkeys have filty dirty cluttered junk packed work areas that they use for "building engines"?? Kinda shows you right off what kind of "quality" work they do.
Why do all these boobtube monkeys have filty dirty cluttered junk packed work areas that they use for "building engines"?? Kinda shows you right off what kind of "quality" work they do.
One guy i know says you cant buikd an engine in a garage.its too dusty. I almost agree, but he was an aircraft engineer.
Totally sterile,and sanitized (so to speak) engine parts will make for a long lived engine, but i consider the enviroment i drive my vehicles. Dusty gravel roads. Lots of them.
What about opening up an engine to repair it? Think the dealerships have a designated clean area to perform major surgery on a less than one year old diesel engine?
I can tell you no. They may do their best to clean,and assemble with good practices but it is done in the service bay.
Had it not lost oil pressure this would be a whole different story i think. Something to do with lifters if i recall.
For some reason they put AMC lifters in it they were saying those lifters are made to oil the top end up through the push rods. Mopars have solid push rods and seperate oil gally for the rocker shafts.
Then they were saying it had too short of push rods in it too besides.
Oil Pressure was leaking out the tops of the AMC Lifters, dropping the pressure on the gauge. So they had to shut down multiple times as Nick and Crew were trying to figure out the problem. Even pulling the pan one main, and the oil pump. They both checked out OK so back together and try again . . . they finally had to throw in the towel on the dyno tests.
For the love of all things holy---It NEVER had anything to do with the damn lifters! It was all due to people pretending to be something they werent--- machinists/enginebuilders. J.Rob
Haha, yepppppppp!For the love of all things holy---It NEVER had anything to do with the damn lifters! It was all due to people pretending to be something they werent--- machinists/enginebuilders. J.Rob
Yes.Yeah, to my knowledge, the lifters are TOTALLY interchangeable, right?
Yes.
More often than not someone forgets or overlooks some simple crap and pisses away an otherwise perfectly good engine.
Yes.
More often than not someone forgets or overlooks some simple crap and pisses away an otherwise perfectly good engine.