Have you guys figured out why there was an oiling failure?
Haven't taken it apart yet but I took the rod cap off #4 and bearing looked like new just shiney spot
on part of outside edge? Also after manipulating the bashed windage tray out of the trashed pan,the
oil pickup screen was completely clear. We are thinking by the benchmarks on the failed rod parts it was not a one time failure but happened over time. Like maybe one side of rod didn't get torqued
This could have happened in our last minute haste to pull motor apart, BBhone cylinders after discovering rust and reassemble according to rod manufacturers directions.
Which is '' Torque one side of rod in one steady pull to 90 ft lbs then the other. I felt the vibration but
engine will vibrate with a cylinder out. Things were vibrating on our tuneup run and on checking the rear tires we found that they had not reblanced the tires when I had them put the lettering on the outside
We figured this out when checking if there was dirty spots from removing the glued on weights "NO''
Had them reblanced in Wendover.
Also these new tires when spun on balancing machine were wobbly and checking this the other day up to 60 thou out of round but new wheel out 30 thou
still have to check where wheel is out of round compared to where tire is out.
JL222