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Originally Posted by AlfonsoR
Walt, with all the things that maybe going through your mind, don't forget to check the oil system to make sure you don't have any potentially damaging metal particulates in the system.
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I have recently found that to be THE most troubling part of a rebuild after a failure. Is it clean enough is the question always running thru my mind. You can't leave anything to chance and have to disassemble everything down to its base parts, or sometimes dispose of things.
You never know where FOD will lurk. A good example is the timing chain. Lord only knows what debris gets lodged in there when broken parts spew debris. Those chains are FOD collectors and no way should they be reused.
Even when you get stuff back from the machine shop after reconditioning, you have to clean it. I had a reconditioned rod come back with grit in the bolt head recess (think rods with threaded caps like Carillo, Pauter, Arrow, etc.) and it munged the threads a bit. That ticked me off to say the least......