Stripped your Aux gears? come inside :)

[brownsvo]

take it from a real life svo owner and rebuild the engine. bam i said it. I regret not listening to the older generation as i scooped out what i could with a magnet and diesel, replaced the oil pump and screen and called it a night.

keep in mind this is AFTER the scooping, flushing with diesel, magnet dragging, and a new pick up screen/pump.
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i took the M86e oil pump apart.. not sure if its even worth it as everyone praises the m127.. may have to spring for one in this rebuild.

[notacarlo]

How many miles until the failure. Im at 250

[brownsvo]

well i didnt mesh the first set right and it lasted about 500 miles. check for premature wear because i sure didnt.. set go around i got smart and replaced the oil pump/pickup, painted the gears to check for compatibility. this newest set outlived the motor as it spun a bearing about a month after i got back from deployment.

[notacarlo]

I bought a matched set, but I will be pulling the dizzy when I get back in town just to check.
On another note, I didn't know it then but the car was letting me know the distributor was going to fail. It started to knock at low boost levels the more the gear wore away the more low level knock I saw.

[notacarlo]

As the dizzy gear was slowly losing time as it wore away.

[brownsvo]

mine spontaneously fizzled out and wouldn't start. atleast both times it was within 5 miles of my house

[notacarlo]

Yup I was across the intersection from a friend of mine. He pulled a ui and towed me up the road.

[Alex L]

both times it was within 5 miles of my house

mine blew within a mile of the house; engine was dead cold. right coming off idle after stopping at a stop sign. teach me to not let it warm up in the morning.

[Jcamper]

I switched to the m127 pump after my failures. Used a distributor/auxiliary shaft pulled from a junkyard engine. Now I am up to around 15k miles or so, no issues that I know of, although I wouldn't notice a problem quite as soon now because the distributor is just a cam position sensor in terms of ignition. Jeff

[caroth]

What oil were you running?

[brownsvo]

I want to say ford semi synthetic, and I forget the weight as I did it before deploying last july.