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| getting my engine rebuilt |
| By Dale Cecil - 06/04/2004 12:10:06 AM; IP 63.230.71.236 |
I was on this forum a few months ago about a noisy, knocking 390. Well, I took the engine to the shop last week and we dismantled it. It was completely shelled. Scored cylinder walls, damaged main crank journals, hot spots on the cam, you name it, it was wrong with it. We sent it to the machine shop, and it sounds like it can be saved. .0040 over on the cylinders, and .0010 under on the mains. The mains have to be built up first, then re-machined.
So you ask what happened? Well, while doing the "autopsy", we noticed that the oil pump gasket was misaligned when the engine was rebuilt last time. The gasked did not clear the pickup hole, it actually blocked it some. Well, anyway, I should have my engine back soon, and my car back on the road. I am getting excited about that.
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