08 with crank dampner sheared off

[Dale Lakin]

Came in on the hook yesterday. According to hotline this isn't the first. Instructed to pull the pan and report back. Will share the findings once we get the motor out.

[Aaron_Johnson]

Haven't seen that yet, but have seen a water pump break in two, the tech working on it replaced the harmonic balancer said it was the cause....maybe he was onto something

[Dale Lakin]

It isn't pretty. I have some pictures how do I upload them or who can host them they are on my work computer and I can't get to a hosting site with our net nanny...

[Dale Lakin]

I emailed the rest to Keith hopefully he will have time to upload the rest

[DwayneGorniak]

Woww! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/surprise.gif That looks likes fun. I'm just doing up a prior approval for melted pistons and glow plugs on one right now. these look great hugh? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flamethrower.gif

[Dale Lakin]

Oh boy another one just got hooked in here with a hole in the pan looks to be the same cylinders.

[DwayneGorniak]

Kinda reminds me of that tune by Queen. And another one gone.....you know the rest.

[Keith Browning]

I emailed the rest to Keith hopefully he will have time to upload the rest

Done deal buddy! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif I uploaded the other 13 and you can see them in our PhotoPost gallery. This one is my favorite

 

 

[Brad Clayton]

Looks like somebody drained the oil out and ran it out back with a brick on the gas pedal.

[dieseldoc]

so any word on what causes the failure? and why you guys have two failures so close together?

[Jim Warman]

Holy Shrapnel, Batman!!!! It takes a really "special" kind of customer to drive something to that sort of destruction...

 

A sign of things to come???? Several years ago I saw warranty on an aftemarket rebuilt gas engine denied because the customer drove it to destruction... This rebuilder had, in the past, been very, very fair with their warranty treatment but, in this particular case, there was no way to determine the root cause of the failure...

 

Of course, we all see those motorists that wont have something fixed until it just plain wont move any more....

[Dale Lakin]

so any word on what causes the failure? and why you guys have two failures so close together?

No idea on the failure. Part of the reason IMO they are so bad is in this part of the country just to get to the closest town in some cases it is an hour plus drive. So people drive them further than they normally would with a problem or until it just gives up the ghost and dies on them (which is the case in both of ours that scattered they drove em till they died out on them).

 

We are now on our 4th engine replacement. 2 were like the pictures above and 2 were the end result of a leaky radiators that blew the tanks off at 70 MPH and lost all coolant and "burnt" the motors up. The 2 that were scattered have both been 700 tags the leaky rads were both cored out.

[Tony302600]

been how long and still no 6.4's in with these problems u guys are seeing... just a couple radiators. and a customer that filled up with gasoline.

[Keith Browning]

Tony my first blown 6.4L arrived last week and it is locked. I am sure its a rod. I drained the oil and grabbed our boreoscope to take a look. It had very little metal in the pan, just some shavings and a couple of larger pieces that look like the lower pan sitting atop the windage tray. I cant raise the cab on my normal lift so I removed the body bolts and disconnected/unbolted everything underneath and pushed it out the door. This week I will drag the sucker around to a Rotary lift and get going on it. Maybe this one will reveal some clues.