My Pete rebuild

[Rawze]

Lime you say,.. it may be a rod out of spec then... not sure.

Have not seen it happen on the fly like that before. Usually right after first crank when it does. -- Perhaps the hard start had it in a bind, rod shifted to one side real hard somehow? -- unsure.

Have had a lot of ppl in the past call me up and say that their older engine suddenly had a lot more blo-by after a rod/main job was done. After investigations, bearing kit was almost always after market (this is the case most of the time). BUT I also always ask if anyone plastigauged the aftermarket bearings or checked them for proper thickness with calipers,... and the shop/ no one bothered to. I have seen a lot of aftermarket bearings that were not the same thickness as OEM when measured.

... or OEM was used, and the job was not done quite right. Perhaps things not measured or most of the time, not checked for proper side-play, looseness, etc.

That or proper bearing part#'s not verified against what came out, side play was not checked, etc. because ISX can have 3 different OEM bearings in them from factory and no one bothers to check the part#'s of the old ones to see if a rod or 2 has a different clearances, etc.