[DeTomaso] BBORR engine

[pantdino at aol.com]

I usually deal with funny furrin' cars that use overhead cams, but the 
idea of a camshaft breaking seems pretty surprising to me.
There's no load on the back end, right, so all the thing has to do is 
turn in its bearings. No?
Sounds like the manufacturer saved some money and bought crappy metal.




-----Original Message-----
From: michael frazier <red3644 at hotmail.com>
To: pantera list <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 8:56 pm
Subject: [DeTomaso] BBORR engine











I took a couple of hours and pulled the engine tonight.  After the 
trans was
off, I pulled the back part of the cam out of the block.

It broke right in front of the lobes for the back 2 cylinders, right 
behind the
bearing.  One lifter was broken in half.  One lifter bore

was beat up right at the bottom maybe 1/8th" from the bottom.  I 
haven't pulled
everything apart but I could see one cylinder had

a small chip out of the skirt in the block.  Need a new block or is 
this all
acceptable?  Thanks.

Michael

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