My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

It looks like I'm not going to get a solid pinpoint failure here. But as I've been slowly putting things back together, I have been able to put together some contributing failures.


1 - The fact that I could not put a load on the engine immediately did not do anything to help seat the rings. On several rings, I've noticed poor contact areas on the #2 ring. A microscope would probably show more to an experienced eye.

Due to the workmanship failure, I cannot place the blame on the IPD liners or rings, but nonetheless, I'm not willing to chance using them again - I don't consider this a light task.

2 - I decided to go over the IFSM, and found the front bank Timing Actuator -




I think I swapped this from the rear bank this summer. If it was hanging, it could possibly explain explain some of the carbon and impingement on the front bank? It would for sure affect SOI if it was hanging open.