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Am i the only one?

RideWithPride

RideWithPride

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Am i the only one on this forum that has had to get 4 different used engines replaced due to rod knock in under 6 months?

I literally have only gotten 550 miles out of the "best" engine i had in this car.

Since a day after i bought the car it had rod knock, bought a used engine, had it swapped in, 1 week later rod knock, 3 weeks later swapped in a ANOTHER used engine, 4 weeks later rod knock.....

What could possibly keep killing this car honestly?

This car has taken almost all my savings out from under me all i ask of the skilled & experienced people on this forum is to give as many ideas as possible to why it would keep giving rod knock.

To clarify on this last engine i had i granny drove it and it lasted me 4 weeks (best out of 3) never went more than half throttle intill 60-65mph.

I have searched for months and months only to read gibberish.

Is it possible Dex-cool coolant is killing these engines? I read somewhere that dex cool will eat through plastic and cause oil+coolant mix.

Bad motor mounts?

Im really at my final terms with this car and i'm not really going to sell it for less than i paid for and im not going to sell it rigged so i just want some brainstorming and before you "vets" try to bully me and say "Search it up" trust me i have searched over this no joke 50-100 times for problems in this car every month.
 


How many miles were previously on these motors? Short/long block swaps? And yes, red dexcool is crap. I refuse to use it. I'm sure motor mounts would only hurt axles/tranny and give a vibration.
 
RideWithPride said:
Is it possible Dex-cool coolant is killing these engines? I read somewhere that dex cool will eat through plastic and cause oil+coolant mix.
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Cocor said:
And yes, red dexcool is crap. I refuse to use it.
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I'm gonna put an end to this conversation before it starts. Dexcool is a perfectly fine coolant if properly maintained every 12 to 24 months. It was originally advertised as a 6 year/70k mile coolant, which it is not.

Unmaintained, it can cause a mix that can eat through the plastic LIM gaskets, but its not something that happens overnight. You would notice a bad gasket or inconsistancy in fluids before any potential damage occurs.
 
Explicit_Spade said:
I'm gonna put an end to this conversation before it starts. Dexcool is a perfectly fine coolant if properly maintained every 12 to 24 months. It was originally advertised as a 6 year/70k mile coolant, which it is not.

Unmaintained, it can cause a mix that can eat through the plastic LIM gaskets, but its not something that happens overnight. You would notice a bad gasket or inconsistancy in fluids before any potential damage occurs.
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Annnnd I'm going to put an end to this misinformation right now. Dex cool does not eat plastic gaskets. Heat cycles destroy the gaskets. Dex wasn't present in the 92-96 3800's and they had the exact same gasket issue.
 
What are you doing when you replace the engines? Just a long block for long block swap, or are you changing internals?
 


4 engines? Are you serious? I have never blown an engine in the 4 GTP's I've owned all of which were over 130K miles with my current one at 200K+.

A couple of questions for you:

Where are you getting your used engines from?
Who is installing them?
Are you using anything off the old engines for the new one such as the heads/SC pulley etc?
Are you scanning?
Are you 100% sure all the sensors are functioning and giving you accurate readings for example temp sensor?
 


How do you know it's rod knock? Are you loosing power? Are you getting a crazy KR? Is there metal shavings in the oil? I have a rod knock... I mean loose exhaust manifold that sounds like a rod knock.
 
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You has to feed the HAMSTER!!!


Truthfully I would question something other than the motors, unless you just have really bad Karma or something.
I have a 80k JY pulled motor and its been a champ for the past 30k. but when I put it in I had the SC & LIM pulled and all gaskets replaced so I knew there wouldn't be any problems for a while. IF you didn't do this at least, you were asking for trouble. I would as others said, question the installer, sensors, if you use a smaller pulley on the supercharger, if the PCM is tuned wrong and/or your using a stock motor, something other than 4 motors and just bad luck.
 
txslow6 said:
4 engines? Are you serious? I have never blown an engine in the 4 GTP's I've owned all of which were over 130K miles with my current one at 200K+.

A couple of questions for you:

Where are you getting your used engines from?
Who is installing them?
Are you using anything off the old engines for the new one such as the heads/SC pulley etc?
Are you scanning?
Are you 100% sure all the sensors are functioning and giving you accurate readings for example temp sensor?
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Where are you getting your used engines from?
Get them from a local engine recycler that pulls used engines from yards and such, last one i had was check over and ran before put in my car, had 40,000k on them.

Who is installing them?
A person who used to work at a pontiac servicer before they are closed and now works at a dodge service center.

Are you using anything off the old engines for the new one such as the heads/SC pulley etc?
As far as i know the heads were from the used nothing was re-used engine wise.

Are you scanning?
As in scan gauge(aeroforce scan gauge) no i haven't gotten one yet. I hear about scanning your car but mine is stock what would be the purpose of scanning a stock engine.

Are you 100% sure all the sensors are functioning and giving you accurate readings for example temp sensor?
How would i tell if they were working "accurattly"
 


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