Okay now I do have bad news
03-26-2009, 12:37 AM
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Okay now I do have bad news
I just got back from the engine builder.. seems the previous builder may have put a crank bearing in backwards.. so now the bottom end is going to come out, the front cam bearing was trashed, the cam is bad... wonderful!!!
03-26-2009, 06:43 AM
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See... stuff like that is the reason I was bustin' your acorns about having someone build the engine for you. No one cares as much about building an engine for someone else as they would building an engine for themselves... no matter what you pay them. I hope you can get it taken care of without spending too much money. What a drag.
03-26-2009, 08:55 AM
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NOT TRUE!!!!!!! I build engines for a living and I would shortcut my own engine before I would ever compromise a customers engine. Most of my engine builder friends are the same way. Some of us actually take a huge amount of pride in what we do because it defines who we are. It's unfortunate that human error may have became a factor in his engine but it happens. If the engine builder had put a main bearing in backwards you couldn't have turned the crank by hand once the mains were torqued. If one of them had been put in upside down (with the oil hole on the wrong side) it wouldn't have run 10 minutes. The right thing to do would have been to let that person rectify the problem. People do make mistakes and unfortunatly when an engine build makes one the consequences can be catostrophic. Thats the reason most engine builders pay close attention to details carefully. When I build an engine the phone is off the hook and nobody else is in the clean room with me. It's sounds more like the engine had an oil starvation problem which could have been caused by a number of things.Not a fair statemennt
Last edited by Portmaster; 03-26-2009 at 09:03 AM.
03-26-2009, 10:23 AM
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I build my own engines also, and I agree with port, I have built a few for friends of mine and I check EVERYTHING 3 times before assembly, where as with my own stuff I do not do this. I think its safe to say that when you are being paid for a job you are more thourough because your reputation and your next job are on the line.
03-26-2009, 10:26 AM
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See... stuff like that is the reason I was bustin' your acorns about having someone build the engine for you. No one cares as much about building an engine for someone else as they would building an engine for themselves... no matter what you pay them. I hope you can get it taken care of without spending too much money. What a drag.