BrownDogg
Newbie
I need you super smart fellas to help me figure this out. I have a 95 that I installed a 96-00 vortec in. Had the chip reprogrammed and everything was running pretty good for about a year. I decided I wanted true duals and had them installed. The day of the installation, riding home I noticed it was riding a little rough. Got it home in the driveway and it sounded really bad. Shut it down and when I cranked it again, bang, boom, pow a rod shot out the bottom of my oil case. I was so disappointed and disgusted I left in the garage for a couple years til now. I'd like to get my boy back on the road again and I'm planning to purchase another crate engine after selling this one to a friend. Problem is now I'm nervous I'll experience the same catastrophic event. Does anyone have any theories what could have possibly gone wrong that day? I thought maybe the installers didn't put the O2 sensor back on but that wasn't the case. I don't know what happened or why. I would like to not have to go through that again if possible. I never went inside that engine, never had a reason to. everything I did was external, so it wasn't some bolt I inadvertently dropped in or anything like that. Any ideas would be a great help. thanks in advance