It even just nicked my Fletcher DP3 cam enough to where its not reusable! Ugh!













#6 rod bearing found inside

 

My NGM Diesel Custom rear freeze plug block off plate acts as a block stiffner too.... It actually saved my studs.

 

The Updated "Swoles Rack of Carnage"

 

Man, those pics are nuts! Have you started a paypal link for 'buy swole a new engine'?

You should call cummins and ask them if there is any warranty left on that motor... tell them it was in the garage warming up, and the only mod you had was mudflaps...

 

Cummins probably has me on their Perminant DENIED for warranty list.. Even for future trucks I own.. LOL

 

Hahaha... they have your number stored on caller ID... "Uh, it's David again... don't answer it..."

 

Man my stomach just cut three backflips for ya.

That is some serious wreckage.

Good luck on the rebuild, or the rest.

 

So whats the failure analysis results? What caused all this? What let go first?I had a similar failure in my shop a while back.

 

No doubt!!


David,
You didn't window the block, you put in a sliding glass door with that damage!!!

 

The last time I saw a recip with that much damage it was caused by a 23mm cannon

 

First of all, sorry for your loss!

Secondly;Keeping in mind that I've never torn anything down bigger than a single cylinder lawnmower engine, I'd like to know what initially caused that kind of damage too. I'm smart enough to see what happened, but I mean, did you lose a rod which then got hung up on other spinning parts and caused a major bind-up? Or did the crank break first? Or did something else come apart and cause the afore-mentioned failures?

 

In the beginning of the thread, he mentioned that his heavier pistons may have broken a connecting rod or crank, causing the damage.

I think he needs to get one of those little bells that bikers have on their bikes to ward off gremlins.

 

I read that but was wondering if he was able to confirm it or found something that would lead him elsewhere.

 

With carnage like that he'd better get one the size of a cowbell

That's incredible! And if I remember correctly, did you say it still tried to start afterwards?

 

As for the total and complete cause, we still really don't know.

There are so many opinions about it.

Jeff kinda thinks the actual cylinder let go first due to high cylinder pressures with my ssr settings... Sticking the piston and pulling the rod cap off.. Then when the crank came back round it caught and bent the rod and broke the crank...

But he also conceeds it could have been the crank first..

But then there are those that say the rod bolts may have been the culprit...


Since I had two seperate tranny breakages ( one turbine hub stripped and twisted input & then the other broken input a few weeks later) that allowed the motor to free rev until the rail pressure subsided.. They think with the extra weight of the monotherms that it could have weakined the crank and/or rod bolts...


Its really very hard to tell the exact cause...


Point is though, its a done deal... Damage is there no matter what the cause...

Sux either way....