Re: You guys

Kevin Bottorff wrote:

> Roger M <rnddmauck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:4617999E.4E04B95@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >
> >
> > TS#15 wrote:
> >
> >> Roger M wrote:
> >>   Repairing cars daily since 1973 that's
> >> > what I do.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  Roger
> >> >
> >>
> >> Just an observation here...If you cannot understand what has been
> >> said to you, and what has been explained and suggested, then you have
> >> NOT been repairing cars properly since 1973.
> >>
> >> TS#15
> >
> >  Actually I didn't see any sort of an explanation of anything. Just a
> >  few
> > malcontents saying that the cam bearings are likely the problem. I've
> > got 34 years of everyday experience repairing engines of all types
> > including Ford big blocks that says that is likely not the case. The
> > individuals that say it is are also leaving out the fact that they
> > likely replaced the rod and main bearings when they replaced the cam
> > bearings. If they replaced the cam bearings in an engine without first
> > completely disassembling it for the repair then they're just stupid
> > and don't know a damn thing about engine repair. So you observe all
> > you want it's no skin off of my ass. Just because someone rebuilt an
> > engine in their back yard doesn't mean they know squat about engine
> > proper basic repair and diagnosis.
> >
> >
> >  Oh and just for the record in 34 years I've seen exactly one set of
> >  cam
> > bearings be the cause of low oil pressure. I live in a bedroom
> > community where most of the cars have three or four hundred thousand
> > miles on them before they're replaced and I've put in a lot of engine
> > lower end bearings to correct oil pressure problems. I stand by what I
> > suggested to the original poster. He did a ****y assembly job and now
> > after 40K miles it's come back to bite him in the ass. **** happens.
> >
> >
> >
> > Roger
> >
>
>   Must be a nice gas station you work in.  Fords have never had a soft
> berg problem with premature wear problems, and seldom do you find a eng
> with compleatly worn rod and mains that wasn`t hot rodded to hell. I
> worked in ford dealer****ps for 15 years and my own private repair garage
> for just as long as you and what you describe is what we used to see
from
> gas station no education wanta bees. they always thought you throw a set
> of rod and mains in it and all better. Almost never did that work
because
> it didn`t solve the loose cam brg problem. So unless you put a high
> volume oil pump (crutch)  in at the same time you wasted your custmers
> time and money.  KB
> PS almost never did they use sized bergs. they just got standards and
> threw them in. I have never used a set of standards in anythig but a
> loose hIpo build because they were always out of spec loose.
>
> --
> Thunder S**** #9
> "Protect" your rights or "lose" them.

 Yep you sound like a real ace wrench. Keep up the good work.