so i pulled the motor

[kessler]

And i am so flipping pissed off right now. Some of you might now that i finished my new motor up last August and started driving it in November to get the motor broke in, And then it started knocking. Well after all the Bull going on i finally pulled the motor today and tore it down to find that the Main caps were barely tight, I don't think that hey were tightened to specs. All 4 Main bearings were trashed and the Rod bearings were ever so slightly scared. Im so pissed of right now.

So now i need to see if the crank is salvageable, If it is then ill get new bearings and get it back in 1 piece, Its just so irritating to spend all that money and get 300 miles on it then this happens. Anyway i just had to vent. I hope to have it back on the road here next week if everything goes good. And i just ordered a rear sway bar and picked up a ZQ8 box from e-rue. So at least im getting some of the stuff done.

 

[TYTILIDIE]

Re: so i pulled the motor

Damn, who built the motor? Having your caps come loose is not a light mistake, Ild get a new builder.

 

[kessler]

Re: so i pulled the motor

well the builder is back in Omaha Ne i since then moved to NC. Im going to have a Local shop inspect the crank and bearings and let them wright up a diagnosis then call my guy back home and chew his ass out. This is why i do most everything on my shit my self. But i was in a time crunch and thought that he could do it. E-Rue is hooking me up with a crank if mine is screwed beyond repair. either way im trying my best to have it on the road in 2 weeks at the most.

 

[TYTILIDIE]

Re: so i pulled the motor

I hear ya. I tell you what, I built a motor in 05, pick up tube fell off somehow and starved her of oil. I took it down to the machine shop Ive been going to for YEARS!! They machined the bottom end and gave me my new parts. Well, I put it back together and 100 miles later it knocked. I pulled the motor back out and took close look at the crank, it had a dip in the #1main journal. They ground and polished it. Well after I left, I kept feeling like somethign wasnt right. I had the crank sitting next to me and I massaged it all the way home and felt, in the #1 main journal, A DIP!!! So I just drove over to a race shop/machine shop, very reputable guy, and he checked it out. BIG difference between the way he miced it and the way my shop did. My shop just checked each journal once, this guy, checked both halfs of each journal in thirds and wrote down the measurements. I was very impressed. So there are shops out there that just plain dont give a shit. Hard to tell whcih ones are which til you have a failure of retarded proportions.