2002 3500 Chevy Express Engine Failure
Yesterday while diving my FIL's 3500 express with a 350 V8 we experienced an apparent bottom end failure. I have never experienced this before so I may be wrong. Oil was good, recent service, always ...
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Vulcaneer wrote:
I find it amazing that this is the first lower end problem I have heard of in years. And this one is highly unusual. It used to be that after 100,000 miles it was common to have these problems. Now any lower end problem is very strange. It seems that if a lower end doesn't fail in the first 10,000 miles it will never fail. So to have one fail after 120K is weird.
Please report back with autopsy report. It does sound like a rod bearing went bad, though.
I agree...the crate Vortec is the way to go. You cannot rebuild heads, for the price of a crate motor. When I bought one to go into my sons 85 SS Montecarlo, it came with a 100K warranty. Unbelievable. That car it took me a day of disconnecting junk, just to get a good look at the engine. I think we counted up 62 connections of various hoses and wires. Ah...the good ole days.
This is what happened to me. My tranny 2nd gear went out and I let it sit all the while I had coolant sitting in the oil from the intake gasket leak. Since I did no oil changes and let it sit for three years I had this rod knock that got progressively worse. I didn't know about it until I spend $4000 on a Jasper trans and intake gasket fix. Talk about an expensive older truck but it now runs great.
