10v Motor Eats Alum Shavings for Breakfast... How to prevent it

[John Larson]

> "If you do that again, take it to a machine shop and have it blasted with
> beads.  That will clean and sort of polish the interior.  Turbo rebuilders
> insist on having oil hoses bead blasted or their guarantee is void."
>
> What?!!!
>
> Bead blasting of ANY internal engine parts is a SERIOUS no-no.  I've yet
to
> encounter a machine shop at the professional level that will do it.  Most
> other "soft" media are ok, but not sand, and DEFINITELY not glass beads.
> Glass, especially, sticks in cracks, crevices, and threads, and comes out
at
> the most inopportune times.  I've seen ruined threads, ruined bearings,
and
> permanently plugged oil passages.  I can't imagine a turbo rebuilder
> requiring such a guaranteed reason for failure.  John
>