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Originally Posted by Matt G.
There's blue RTV all over the gasket surface, so someone was probably in there before you got it. Perhaps they removed whatever was hitting the rod. Try to wiggle the balance gears with your fingers; if they wobble, I would either replace the bearings in them or remove them altogether. That rod needs to be replaced. That is a failure waiting to happen.
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Yeah, i had mentioned in my reply to you earlier that it was obvious someone had already been in the motor and that possibly a cast iron pan was swapped out.
I am glad you brought up the balance gears...i did notice that the lower gears wobbles a ridiculous amount and the upper gears wobbles too, just not as badly. Honestly, it wobbles so bad that i assumed it had to what it was supposed to do, but that pretty much flies in the face of any other engine allowances. I just took a quick video, click below...i am guessing this pretty bad, huh?
EDIT: I just did about ten minutes of reading on the balance gears, quite strange. They will certainly be coming out. If the bearings are destroyed in the balance gears this badly, it leads me further down the road wondering if a full rebuild will be in order.
