Noiseydiesel
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Okay now.
I picked up a rebuilt crate engine.
It went ****.
Sounded like a rod bearing?
Upon tear down I found the valve cover baffle broke off the inside and was bouncing off the valve train.
That scratches the oil pump and the oil cooler. My valve cover is my problem and my responsibility.
That kind of possibly voids the warranty when your valve cover fails.
Further tear down shows an oil squirter aimed at the bottom of the piston, aimed towards the wrist pin/ connecting rod, was inside the oil pick up. I suspect it was either mis-installed by the re-builder or had a crank dropped on it during install. Not enough room in there to reach it without a tear down.
NOW.
The question is
(A) Send it back to the re-builder in New Jersey?
(B) Send it out to a local machine shop?
Going back to Jersey should/might start a 3 year warranty all over again. Now they are also offering an additional 2 years on their engines.
The re--builder in Jersey appears to use an assembly line to the rebuild process.
Locally is a one man show with substantially a much better quality control.
Taking this engine out again in the future is not something I desire to do.
Funny part is the Allison trans planned for this machine is supposed to be a million mile unit.
The engine is supposed to be a million mile unit.
Guess i would be happy to get 150,000
Actually 6,000 miles on the last drive train was a bit miserable.
So, (A) or (B) ?
I picked up a rebuilt crate engine.
It went ****.
Sounded like a rod bearing?
Upon tear down I found the valve cover baffle broke off the inside and was bouncing off the valve train.
That scratches the oil pump and the oil cooler. My valve cover is my problem and my responsibility.
That kind of possibly voids the warranty when your valve cover fails.
Further tear down shows an oil squirter aimed at the bottom of the piston, aimed towards the wrist pin/ connecting rod, was inside the oil pick up. I suspect it was either mis-installed by the re-builder or had a crank dropped on it during install. Not enough room in there to reach it without a tear down.
NOW.
The question is
(A) Send it back to the re-builder in New Jersey?
(B) Send it out to a local machine shop?
Going back to Jersey should/might start a 3 year warranty all over again. Now they are also offering an additional 2 years on their engines.
The re--builder in Jersey appears to use an assembly line to the rebuild process.
Locally is a one man show with substantially a much better quality control.
Taking this engine out again in the future is not something I desire to do.
Funny part is the Allison trans planned for this machine is supposed to be a million mile unit.
The engine is supposed to be a million mile unit.
Guess i would be happy to get 150,000
Actually 6,000 miles on the last drive train was a bit miserable.
So, (A) or (B) ?