That's what I was thinking. It's like all of a sudden my C10 is cursed.
I'm pretty sure it's a rebuild. It's a "seasoned block". They have a separate line they sell specifically listed as "100% new".
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Cricket in new engine
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Can I fit an engine in a big trash bag? Need something to cover the motor with when I ship it back. The bag it came in tore.
hope the engine thing gets resolved quickly and they make up for your lost time and the headache of it all.
also, skinny chicks scare me...
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"Can I fit an engine in a big trash bag? Need something to cover the motor with when I ship it back. The bag it came in tore."
Big thick trash bag then wrap it with the cellophane plastic wrap stuff.
Big thick trash bag then wrap it with the cellophane plastic wrap stuff.
Good luck with the engine... hopefully it's resolved.
Just saran wrap it. The big industrial saran wrap rolls are relatively cheap.
I resolved myself that I'm probably looking at 2 months. When I asked how long it might take, he dodged the question so that means either he doesn't know or doesn't want to say which both probably equal longer than I would like.
If I can ask, would you buying, let's say one of those west coast engines 350's
Chevy 350 Crate Engine | "Hum Baby" — West Coast Engines
375 HP Small Block Chevy 350 Crate Engine for Hot Rods and Classic Cars.
westcoastengines.com
that's already broken in etc etc, you just add fluids and go. It is a higher price but, would this situation you're in probably been caught before shipping and or avoided altogether?
yep, I am able to put an engine into a 39 gallon bag while on the stand.
if he has to create his own engine shouldn't he be able to keep it?
Evidently my southern accent is coming through in talk to text. I can't spell because I have fat fingers and can't talk. So I am done here after all of the harassment today.
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That shouldn't be hard to achieve..
FWIW, I use these bags for lots of stuff. At 3 mils, they stand up to a lot of abuse and don't tear easily. Not sure if the size would cover an entire engine or not, but should come close.
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That might have caught the problem. I've been thinking a lot about the series of events, and I don't think I started hearing anything until it had around 200-250 miles on it. That's when I found the transmission dust cover had been rubbing on the flex plate and I thought that was the noise I was hearing. I think it must have gotten louder as time went by. So I don't know if a dyno run would have been long enough to catch it. Obviously it would reduce the odds of something going wrong.If I can ask, would you buying, let's say one of those west coast engines 350's
Chevy 350 Crate Engine | "Hum Baby" — West Coast Engines
375 HP Small Block Chevy 350 Crate Engine for Hot Rods and Classic Cars.
that's already broken in etc etc, you just add fluids and go. It is a higher price but, would this situation you're in probably been caught before shipping and or avoided altogether?
Apparently you can get the engine dyno'd by ATK before they ship it because there were a couple of mentions that certain things needed to be done even if it had been run on the dyno before shipping. I didn't look into that option.
I chose this unit because it has the 1-piece rear main, roller cam, and uses heads that will match my ProFlo4 intake. It was $1200 less than the West Coast Engines version you linked. I had a budget and I was looking for the best bang for the buck that met the requirements I had.
If for one reason or another they were to just refund my money, I would probably take the engine I pulled out down to the machine shop I've used in the past. Have them do a rebuild, bump the compression up and put a hotter cam in. The cost for that is a little more than the crate engine but it's easier to deal with issues when it's someone local.
