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Originally Posted by ermax
I would love to know what bearing number is failing too. There is a oil gallery near the edge of the timing cover that feeds the heads. The RH block is feed through the heads and the LH block is feed direct. So if that one oil gallery was blocked it would potentially starve the RH block. I can't recall which rods are feed by the RH block though. When I get home tonight I will look at my old block and crank to find out. My bet is that most of the rod failures will be the ones feed by the RH block and could be due to that oil gallery in the timing cover being blocked.
Edit: Scratch that. I looked at my block and all bearings (mains and rods) are feed via the LH block which is a direct feed from the pump with packing no where in sight. The chart actually shows that I just didn’t read it correctly. The only thing I can see going wrong due to the recall is packing in the pickup either from excessive packing breaking off or debris from the clean up. If they blocked the gallery in the timing cover that I was referring to it would actually just divert more pressure to the bearings. My block had packing blocking one of the returns from the heads but this packing isn’t touched on the recall.
So now I’m curious if they aren’t using the correct Threebond and it breaks away easier than the correct stuff or maybe they are throwing oil in it and starting it before it cures. I forget what the cure time was on the Threebond. I didn’t put oil back in mine for days because I just didn’t have time to work on the project.
What a mess this whole recall is. I feel really bad for everyone getting screwed by the dealers. |
I am hearing a knock on driver side ( left side of engine) on cold start ups, but not a constant knock. No check engine light either yet.