by Kevin Bottorff <kevyNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 9, 2007 at 01:45 AM
Roger M <rnddmauck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:46184B11.1728CCD2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Kevin Bottorff wrote:
>
>> Roger M <rnddmauck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:4617999E.4E04B95@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>
I am glad you reconize it. KB
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