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trop-a-cal
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Jan 11, 2014

454 Head back on engine started #7 piston noise

Now with full compression on both heads the 43,000 mile 1997 454 vortec has the same noise that it had prior to it shutting down completely. The noise was checked by removing spark plug wire and heari...
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C-Leigh_Racing
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Jan 13, 2014
PaulJ2 wrote:
And why would there be metal fragments all through the engine? Is not this the oil filters job? Oil pump screen will catch the big chunks and the oil filter should get the rest. I'm with the OP that he maybe has a rod bearing failure, not likely the whole engine.


Well, can never tell, he might have been using a Fram filter.
Neil

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