Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
Some rather sad news for my RB30. The small plate, or washer behind the timing sprocket on the crank has stripped out and is eating into the crank. The only fix is a new crank, but probably cheaper to get a whole engine. This is just a mongrel thing that the mechanic who changed out the timing belt has caused about 30,000ks ago. It is such a shame as the motor is running as sweet as.
@mudnut
Craig, I'm not 100% sure about this, but can you please post a close up picture of that scoring on the crank?

What exactly is the problem with that scoring? Oil seal failure?
If that's the case, you may be able to sleeve it and use it as normal thereafter.

Changing the engine or the crank sounds bit too drastic from my end, but I'm not standing right in front of your engine looking straight at it, so you would know how bad it is, better.