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Old 03-07-2018, 01:31 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by ajc209 View Post
As Tcoat mentioned, RTV blocking the smaller oil feed is quite common.
To be clear it is a common failure mode on engines that blew a bearing not necessarily a common occurrence.
There are about 25 recorded cases (on this forum) of bearing failure and maybe 7 or 8 of those were known to be the plugged oil channels. Don't want everybody with a 13 to think the sky is falling when the known numbers are actually miniscule. Doesn't make thing better when you fall into that minority though.


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