I'm sure those rods are camouflaged as small bits of metal all over the place...
Lets Play a Game called "whats missing"
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Lets Play a Game called "whats missing"
so i got the oil pan off the bottom of the engine I took out of the truck and I will be honest, I took a double take before seeing what was wrong. o dear.
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yeah no shiznit. I met this guy in Springfield IL. he said he drove it down from chicago and it was about 11pm and raining so i figured if he made it that far with the truck it must be fine. it was BS. he trailered it to springfield and gave it to me. it had maybe 3/4 qt of oil in it which is why it blew up.
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you both missed the fact that there arent even rods attached to the crank 
or maybe you just didn't say it. I didn't take them off, they literally disintegrated.
at least i have a clean crank to make a lamp out of, or a cool bar stool for my man cave lol.
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or maybe you just didn't say it. I didn't take them off, they literally disintegrated. at least i have a clean crank to make a lamp out of, or a cool bar stool for my man cave lol.
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one day it started making all kinds of nasty noises, and before i could get to it to shut it down it tossed a rod out he pan.
i pulled a pan, rod, and piston out of a spare engine in the scrap pile alongside the shop, and put it in the pump using a piece of leather from a belt as the bearing.
all it had to do was run for another month to keep things wet through the heat of summer.
this pump ran for 2 hours per night.
once the season was over, we forgot about it and put it up for winter.
it ran with the leather "bearing" in that rod for another 3 years before we got a larger 8 inch diesel powered pump.
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This isnt the first time I've heard about the leather-belt-bearing trick. It seems so unorthodox but I guess it works.
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Those slant 6 engines were pretty unreal. I had a Dodge stepside way back in 84. I forget what year it was, but I bought it with over 400k miles, a poor maintenance history, and two quarts of oil in the pan. Drove it that way for a month before I changed the oil and actually figured out it was so low!
