wow that's terrible , and all from a loose oil pump you say???
wow that's terrible , and all from a loose oil pump you say???
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
Wow that sucks
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2008 GU 3.0 CRD Auto - Life's too short to eat bad food.
Head and block going into machine shop on Monday, if the head passes crack and hardness test and block crack test, looks like I can I can rebuild it for around $2500-$2800. Had injectors tested and they are good. Not having to spend $2000 on new injectors makes it best value to rebuild at this stage.
is there anything that can be done whilst its apart to improve it in any shape
or form ,bigger oil galleries and such
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
Wonder if that would have showed up on a oil pressure gauge,though it would have dropped slowly it would be hard to notice. Maybe nissan need to invest in some locktite for the pump bolts...
That is really nasty damage ..... hope the head comes up ok
Mic
GU PATROL 2011 Ti, with goodies...
Not sure 3 dogs, apart from the damage caused by the oil pump issue, the engine at 180,000kms was in great shape with almost no wear, in fact it looked like a brand new clean engine, except for the intake manifold, throttle body, egr cooler and egr valve caked in black oily soot all due to EGR and PCV. I hadnt blocked EGR and Provent oil catch can went on at approx 120,000km, vehicle had 110,000km when I bought it. I always thought the 3.0 lt was a small engine, but when you pull it out and strip it down it is actually a big, solidly built engine. Im pretty confident that if the oil pump screws hadnt come out, the intake was cleaned say every 50,000km (or EGR blocked correctly) , serviced regularly that this engine would do 350,000km plus easy. I will definately be fitting an oil pressure guage and low coolant alarm, when something happens quickly you really need audible alarms. I have EGT and boost guage and although I feel Im constantly watching them, I hadnt looked at them just before it happened so I dont know what they showed.
Next mod I'm doing is an oil gauge, plus set some alarms on my newly purchased ECUtalk gauge
surely you can fit a bigger/better oil pump in, or tweak that one some how
just throwing ideas out there, I don't know, are there go fast goodies for the ZD30
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
Oil pump is part of the timing cover so could not be upgraded.
Good news today, the head and block tested up OK. So on with the rebuild
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