Originally Posted by supton
Since when is a dirty engine "not super maintained"? Where did all that oil come from anyhow? That seemed pretty dirty. I thought it was a German engine and not British.
He mentions an oil screen--what's its need, if it likes to migrate throughout the engine and do damage?
Interesting way to get out of using a woodruff key on the balancer. Is this a cheaper/better way of indexing?
Doesn't look like that engine was living a great life, seems like a lot of carbon and even oil build up in those cylinders.
Edit: dawned on me, the oil on the engine is probably from oil changes, duh.
Its a matter of poor maintenance and not replacing the old style tensioner with a revised version per TSB (15-12-01), lots of engines from every manufacturer have hit the valves on the pistons for various reasons.
Running it to death and not taking care of it then blaming the manufacturer is just foolish. Even a good indy will look for TSB's and see if any are applicable to the car he is working on and inform the customer about addressing it. If you do your own work a short term subscription to AllData will give you TSB's or just call the dealer.
This is an relatively easy job on this engine if you do it before the chain jumps, it will rattle before this happens, if someone chooses to ignore it then its on them really, I agree they should extend the warranty but they didn't so you have to work with the hand you are holding.
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