|
Thanks will do CamasM3e93 , vanos cover is off now anyway as needed to take crank out anyway and im then going to be installing SLON vanos covers that I bought.
Don't think so on the timesert but ill get it checked and as you say the crank sprocket etc we might have seen. Are investigating further but as soon as we was those flecks we jumped straight to rod bearings, then to main bearings (where the expensive fun of removing whole engine began) to sort of come up empty.
Leftover debris is my thought too, but how many oil changes would it take to remove it?
My thinking along those lines would have beeen
1) Engine blows / something happens
2) Owner gets 2nd hand engine and says to shop (reputable one here in AU for S65), "sell me a 2nd hand engine and do the rod and main bearings please "... which were done looking at the fact they're not OEM
3) Shop installs engine and leaves all ancillaries as they were (possibly contaminated with bearing debis as you say)
4) Car goes on to have 3-4 oil changes since bearings done.
So with my thinking (am I missing anything?), would the oil changes since the engine change have cleaned out what was floating around from the assumed broken engine?
Obviously I am going to have the oil cooler, lines and block cleaned and flushed as much as possible. hopefully this diagnostic work will present something that can be fixed.
|