worst motors of all time

Gonna get hate from this, but the pentastar 3.6. Affectionately known as "Tick". Ours decided to eat itself. I always did frequent oil changes, and kept up with mtx. The rear bank the lifters, and followers failed and ate both camshafts. Dealer said we can install a used engine in the van for $6,000 lol. I told them then the van is junk. It's worth $5000 as a trade on a good day. The cost of the engine is more than the value of the van.

So I told them, vacuum all the metal out. Use compressed air to blow out the rest, and flush the remainder into the oil pan with varsol. Then swap out the bad parts, put it together, give it an oil change and give it back to me. Price $1800. They said it wont work. I told them I plan on using cheap oil and cheap filters and flushing it out every 200 miles until I dont find metal on the filter pleats. Well that corrected that, then the transmission developed issues, and that dodge caravan went away. A buddy of mine had the same ticking issue in a 3.6L pentastar powered jeep. He fixed it and ditched it. Junk.