That is the funny thing about this failure, it was failing at idle. Very little heat build up. High RPM I had tons of oil flowing. Funny I never heard any knocking either.

It seized up without any heat showing in the bearings? Are there any metal deposits on the crankshaft?

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These are the bearings that seized the engine. I have placed them how I found them in the rod. The rod did not have much bluing but as you can see the bearings spun. I have already replace the oil cooler, oil lines and am in the process of cleaning out the cases. I have procured another crank and rods, bearings, chains, oil pump. I am personally bringing this country out of the recession. :D

Hello just wondering if there were any updates to the forensics done to determine cause of the bearing damage?

I am not sure if it was mods I made to the crank or bad rod bearings. See the postings on the Glyco bearings for the 2.4 rod bearings. Either way the new engine will have a 2.0 crank and no mods.