I'm finally going to pick up my 99 V8 after a long, long road of setbacks and pitfalls!
First to set the stage... I bought it in April of 2011, and it promptly died two weeks later (spun rod bearing), and the engine was completely rebuilt. Unbeknownst to us at the time, the painter sandblasted the plenum and cam covers before powdercoating them, and filled my freshly rebuilt engine with sand. It went another couple weeks before spinning a main bearing.
We discovered that the sand was the culprit after rebuild #2. Fortunately he had insurance and they settled for the damages.
For rebuild #3 I got a new engine block, and replaced everything related to the oiling system (oil pump, oil coolers, oil lines, bearings, etc.). Turbos rebuilt too.
So here I am 3 years later.
Thanks are due to the forum members here for all of your help and support. If fact, without all of you we might never have figured out the sand problem until it was too late.
Please send some good luck my way that this pickup goes ok and I can start enjoying this car!
First to set the stage... I bought it in April of 2011, and it promptly died two weeks later (spun rod bearing), and the engine was completely rebuilt. Unbeknownst to us at the time, the painter sandblasted the plenum and cam covers before powdercoating them, and filled my freshly rebuilt engine with sand. It went another couple weeks before spinning a main bearing.
We discovered that the sand was the culprit after rebuild #2. Fortunately he had insurance and they settled for the damages.
For rebuild #3 I got a new engine block, and replaced everything related to the oiling system (oil pump, oil coolers, oil lines, bearings, etc.). Turbos rebuilt too.
So here I am 3 years later.
Thanks are due to the forum members here for all of your help and support. If fact, without all of you we might never have figured out the sand problem until it was too late.
Please send some good luck my way that this pickup goes ok and I can start enjoying this car!