My Pete rebuild

[Rawze]

(12-25-2021 )tree98 Wrote:  I don't remember seeing Rawze weigh all his parts when he did his rebuild. What am I missing?

not trying to be a meanie, just my thoughts...

I am starting to think that he's ... yet again ... going to make it worse, rather than better. - The engine, from the factory, if it is simply built 100% right with all oem internals, and then cared for properly, will already last a million miles on its own.

I have also yet to open an overhaul kit and find defective components, aside from maybe the replacement head gasket shifting in the box it comes in and getting glue on it or marred a bit, or something dumb like that due to rough handling during shipping. Its pretty rare for there to be factory defect parts, right out of the boxes... and buying things individually is not only far more expensive, but you can get different year/style of components, depending on the supply chain and local stocks, that may not match up 100% together.

- Even if a person does improve the quality above what is discussed on here with precision balancing the reciprocating assemblies, and all things else.. It is not going to last any longer than normal, for the typical truck application. If the engine is simply built 100% correctly, and cared for properly, it is almost never any of the lubricated components that lead to an inframe 10+ years down the road any ways.

I had offered to let him build it again over here with some guidance (as long as he used all OEM internals) a while back when it first needed it, but I guess he was not able to take me up on it.