Some of you may know my stroker was built by a moron, and that it didn't last more than 50 miles. Well we finally found out how much of a moron he really was.
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Now that the motor has been at Rocky Mountain Compe*****ive Research to get rebuilt, here is what they have found when they tore it down.
Did I mention that my previous builder is a f'in moron, and if I find him....God help me.
The first and worst mistake was that the oil pump body was not clearanced to clear the main stud of the rear cap. This causes the oil pump to be cocked on the rear cap which is where it supplies oil to the engine. With it cocked I would say that the engine had very little oil pressure or volume since day 1. Problem 2 was that they pressed the rear cam plug in way to far, which caused the camshaft to have no endplay and even was applying pressure to the front cam retaining plate. This caused damage between the cam gear and this plate. I don't know yet whether the timing chain is usable. Problem 1 caused lots of damage to all of the engine bearings. The crankshaft doesn't look too bad. A polish will probably clean it up. The rods are OK. The pistons have lots of bearing material stuck in the side of them, but will probably clean up. The biggest problem I see is that the engine was starved for oil so badly that the center cam bearing seized to the camshaft and started spinning in the block, damaging the block.
Well when the block was sent to the machine shop, they discovered that when he clearance it for the stroker crank, he found one of the water jackets. But wait, it gets better, he pluged it with epoxy!
So it appears I now have to get a new block, plus have all the machining and clearancing done once again. Lucky me.
Mav, now out $3k, but toasting all of you with a beer in hopes this doesn't happen to you.
