Kevin Rutherfrauds $200000 Signature glider truck has complete engine failure!!!

Looks like there's a couple updates from the owners. Sounds like they have been in contact with KR.

https://facebook.com/TrackThatTruck

 

Is there micro-blue on them ? Is there supposed to be ?

from the MicroBlue website - [h=2]WHEN THE TIME COMES TO REBUILD YOUR DIESEL ENGINE, NOTHING PUTS MORE CASH IN YOUR POCKET FASTER THAN A GENUINE MICROBLUE® OEM INFRAME KIT. WITH MILEAGE INCREASES FROM 6/10ths. to 1 MPG, YOU COULD EASILY HAVE A PAYBACK OF SIX MONTHS OR LESS![/h]

 

I don't claim to know the ins and outs of all this technical stuff when it comes to diesel engines, but $200,000 seems to be too much to spend on a boat anchor.

 

If nobody f***s with it and it holds together long enough to recoup your money.

 

Fleet air filter & first oil change at 50,000 miles probably didn't help...

 

I thought it was supposed to be around 5,000 after a rebuild. Silly me.

 

I listened to all these things to do, but I'll just have mine rebuilt by Detroit, and avoid these problems.

 

I wonder what the rod journal looks like. That's not oil change, or dirty air, that's a piece of debris that got caught up during installation.

 

No doubt in my mind that is grit in the assembly lube. Either filthy hands, table, any rate comes back to environment. If it was something that came out of say the journal oil hole it would be just a line around the bearing in line with the hole. All the way across says it was smeared in with the assembly lube or the journal wasn't clean. I bet he heard the grit popping when he torqued it with his harbor freight torque wrench. That is crazy, thing is he can't blow smoke up nobodies butt now proof is in the pudding. lol

 

You said it wore out... I'd like to see those crank journals and main bearings too.

I don't care how screwed up or how many problems you have with fuel, timing, valves, or temp, etc, etc, on the top end,
if you build the bottom end correctly you will never see anything, even remotely like this, in 100k miles.

I have serious doubts those rod journals and final bearing clearances were even checked with any accuracy.
Maybe a harbor freight micrometer that came free with the torque wrench... ?