Quote:
Originally Posted by Smallblock454
Hope you'll find all metal pieces.
Would be bad if you rebuild the engine and something is left in there that causes future damages.
|
For sure, that would be an absolute disaster.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smallblock454
The chain guides look pretty good. Seems the mileage of the car is correct.
|
Yeah, most parts show really low wear representing the low mileage, while others are kind of puzzling and I just don't get it. Look at the main bearings for instance.
The crank seems fine, but the bearings show quite a bit of wear. However, the thrust bearing washers have no wear, underlining the low mileage.
Especially around the small windows where the oil gets in there's a lot of wear, suggesting there was something in the oil and made most of the damage here. What I don't understand is, how can the debris get through the filter?
Also, it seems most of the damage can't be accounted for the chain snap, I think this wear had happened before... Just in comparison, in the other engine I rebuilt there was literally no wear on the bearing shells, at 100.000 miles. This engine had 22.000 in it...
This car was a garage queen. Since it is 22 years old, on average it ran 1000 miles/year, meaning probably there were several month-long gaps when it was not running at all, which is not really healthy for the bearings for obvious reasons. Still, hard to believe that this alone could have caused this much wear.