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Body isn't good enough for a another motor. It wife hates it anyway. Probably scrap it.

Got the engine pulled finally! Upside down and took the main caps loose. Two broken bolts and center three main bosses are cracked. It looks like the center one might have gotten the oil gallery, I can't tell for sure. Bambi doesn't get all the blame, this time.

I think the pin was missing. It might be the weekend before I actually can get block pulled to verify. (work has me busy during the week. ie 8pm and still at the desk)

Some one can say I'm wrong, but I think you can install the flex plate 180 out. I had the same vibration. I pushed the trans back enough to remove the flex plate. I just don't remember what I exactly did, but after re assembly, the vibration was gone. John

Leroy, I try to post one asap. I'm finally to the point I can pull mine. (unless someone beats me to it) I put mine on wrong when I installed that engine. I was able to slide the trans back enough to remove the bolts and re-torque them. If I recall the weighted side is away from the...

Mine was very simple. Harmonic balancer came loose. Sheared the key, ran for miles. Once the crank broke, continued to drive for additional miles until acceleration caused the crank to finally slip between the halves. This didn't show that 6 rods were also bent.

I though my 6.5 carnage was good, I agree: YOU WIN jmiller's 6.5 carnage

My last failure of the PMD showed this problem. After several years of life on the manifold, I finally moved the PMD to the bumper. Shortly there after the cruise control quit working. I continued to drive it for 6 months or so when the PMD finally failed.

I think most of the drive gear wear is from the high pump pressure I've seen during cold starts. It has to be putting a lot of pressure on the gear. I didn't notice wear any on the driven gear when I pulled it earlier, but didn't really have any reason to look at it. I'll look at the pump...

Pulling the motor I inspected the relief valve, it was in the proper place, moved freely and the spring was not broken. I pried open the oil filter and found some bearing flakes, but not a lot. I'm going to pull the motor. I think that a friend has a cam bearing installer. A visual...

I used to have a leak at the down pipe after I removed it the first time. Next time try this: Use a jack under the lower connector for up pressure and a pry bar to position the the pipe fore / aft / left / right. I can then make sure that the down pipe is evenly centered on the turbo flange...

On the subject of the noise: http://youtu.be/ODygLecNyNs Thoughts, or am I sensitive with the oil pressure drop?

Update Here's an update on where I went. Checked the Rod's, a set of new Std bearings and two 0.001" undersized got all the oil clearances to < 0.001 to > 0.002 (most about 0.0017 or so) Only two physically damaged bearings, #7 & #4. I did not inspect mains, or open the oil pump. I...

are the nozzle nipples cracked? or possibly the barb damaged, scored, during removal?

It would have prevented today's BS! I'd still have a bashed in door, but no engine damage. Oh well

The oil analysis report is the initial report The bearing damage appears to be more of a heat related stress that lead to separation and not something that would necessarily show in an analysis. The #7 upper bearing surface actually peeled and extruded out of the bearing. This explains the...

After 10,000 miles since the truck ran out of oil the assessment of the rod bearings is done. Each of the upper halves had some level of damage in a bright spot or actual separation of the the top level. Rod 7, pictured above, was delaminated the worst. Rod 4 had a separation spot of 1/4"...

The continuation of Deer strike catches up with me Plenty O Questions! So I started checking rod clearances. Rod, 1, 2, 5 are 0.002 ~ 0.0025. Rod 6 was 0.003 0.0035, checked with a new std bearing @ 0.0025 Rod 7 was 0.0035, pulled the upper to check with a std and found this: The...

After the accident, I knew some bearing was lost, because of the drop in hot oil pressure. Time, weather, and recovery from the busted leg prevented me from doing the inspection right then. Once the sound and associated additional oil pressure dropped again, it set off the alarm bells. But...