In this video I was showing my viewers how I start up a new MPI engine when I discovered in real time that the remanufactured engine I purchased had a bent crankshaft. How you can machine a crankshaft and put it in an engine without detecting a bent crankshaft baffles the he** out of me but it’s plainly visible to the naked eye.
So now instead of having a complete engine ready to be installed in the boat I have to take it back apart and replace the crankshaft at my expense. I don’t have time to take it all back apart and send it back to the shop that built it in the first place. What a damn nightmare. But you know what? This is my fault. I violated my policy of not buying reman engines. The customer didn’t want to wait for me to build an engine from scratch and I bought a reman to speed up the process. I lost my butt on this project due to all the re-work I had to do.
Btw it won’t stay running because the wobbling crankshaft nose is causing an erratic signal to be sent to the computer. I wonder if I would have ever caught the bent crankshaft if this was a carburetored engine?
6 апр 2024
