Engine condition

Posted by Will (in MI) on Friday, February 04, 2005 at 8:36PM :

While cleaning out the front sump oil pan off of my donor engine I found a LOT of metal shavings collected in the sludge. So while pulling the oil pump out so I could install the rear sump pan for motor fitting trials, I noticed that the crank was biased forward (likely do to thrust bearing failure), and some scraping damage to the back of one of the caps, and on some of the cranks counter weights.

I'm going to re-build the engine but should I be concerned or not this damage?

Also I noticed most of the rods, etc... have a brownish cast, is this normal?

Thanks,
Will

• My 1953 M-37

Follow Ups:

• Thrust bearing - RICHARD BOWMAN 7:05AM 02/05/2005
  • Re: Thrust bearing - WC Rick 3:53AM 02/06/2005
  • Torque converter button theory??? - chris case 4:21PM 02/05/2005
    • Re: Torque converter button theory??? - RICHARD BOWMAN 5:34PM 02/05/2005
• Re: Engine condition - WC Rick 5:00AM 02/05/2005
  • Mal-adjusted clutch causes this too - chris case 4:14PM 02/05/2005
  • Re: Engine condition - stephen 11:51AM 02/05/2005
    • Re: Engine condition - WC Rick 1:14PM 02/05/2005
  • Re: Engine condition - WC Rick 5:50AM 02/05/2005
    • Re: Engine condition - Will (in MI) 8:48AM 02/05/2005
      • Re: Engine condition - Pieter 1:06PM 02/05/2005
        • True - Will (in MI) 1:55PM 02/05/2005
          • lunch @ champs - Pieter 3:10PM 02/05/2005
            • Re: lunch @ champs - Ron in Indiana 3:59PM 02/05/2005
• Re: Engine condition - Bruce 11:15PM 02/04/2005
• Rod color normal, thrust bearing is shot - chris case 8:44PM 02/04/2005
  • Re: Rod color normal, thrust bearing is shot - Will (in MI) 9:33PM 02/04/2005

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