[s-cars] RE: Ate a rod bearing: part 2

[Emre Washburn]

> blew out the oil sensor on the back of the head about 15,000 miles ago and
> puked almost all my oil out (although I thought I had shut the engine down
> quickly enough and no problems were noted after the event).

Yep, I would blame all of it on that one acurance. It take the bearing
to be starved of oil for only one revolution to being the snowball
effect.

Emre
92 //S4

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:25:49 -0400, Michael Bess <mlbess at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> In my case, the S6 has 93,000 miles.  I've had it from 28,000 on.  I do have
> the MTM 1+ since about 45,000 miles.  I don't use synthetic oil and the oil
> changes come, on average, at 4500 miles.  Oil consumption has always been
> nil between changes.  If crud due to some other internal work not being
> properly performed clogged up the oiling system prior to my ownership, that
> may have been the significant contributing factor, as might the fact that I
> blew out the oil sensor on the back of the head about 15,000 miles ago and
> puked almost all my oil out (although I thought I had shut the engine down
> quickly enough and no problems were noted after the event).
> 
> Michael Bess
> Project Manager-Die Casting
> International Zinc Association
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Calvin & Diana Craig
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 12:04 PM
> To: Emre Washburn; chris chambers
> Cc: Scar
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: Ate a rod bearing: part 2
> 
> I wonder why the relative rash of rod bearing failures recently?  There are
> about 4 possibilities I can think of:
> 
> 1) At a certain mileage (is everybody at the same area of mileage with
> these) some of the engines just fail a rod bearing because of fatigue.
> 2) The extra HP people are developing over stock is putting extra torture on
> the rod bearing surfaces over time (is everybody failing rods chipped or
> RS2'd?)
> 3) There is a piece of the oiling system that fails in a peculiar manner on
> some cars?
> 4) Each of these had some previous work done inside the engine other than
> normal T-Belts and valve cover gaskets, etc. and things were not
> re-assembled properly, i.e. not clean.
> 
> I just think I have heard of about 4 people recently talking of this and
> that seems like a high percentage given the number of owners on the
> list...of course maybe this is going to become more normal as these cars
> aren't getting any younger.  What do you guys think?
> 
> --Calvin
> 
>