I hear all you "cut the oil filter open" people and I need to tell you that this engine just ate a cam. I cleaned bunch or shavings out of the pan. I'm not feeling like I'm going to learn much from this exercise because I already expect to see some metal in there. Although, maybe not since the oil and filter have now been changed, what? Maybe four times in the last hundred miles or so. So I feel like metal in the engine (although now really all of it gone from places I can see) is not new information to me. What I'm more needing to know is where any is that I can't see / haven't found.
Anyway, today should be the day for engine coming out. I think the hoist I got has too short an arm so that might be fun. But we'll see. Just been doing some last minute YouTube googling for noises. My noise does sound a lot like piston slap. But I had a little of that before anyway. Never known it to change and get loud under load. I'm slightly worried about wrist pin. Especially since I don't have another piston and rod assembly to swap out if that was it. But in the samples I've heard wrist pins sound more, I dunno, tinny. Ah well. I'm probably procrastinating against a job I don't want to do..
Sam
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Sam Agnew
Where you come from is gone; where you thought you were going to, weren't never there; and where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it.
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
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