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Does the coating wipe off now? If not, what about if you apply acetone on a rag?

Twin Cams have chains. Evo motors are gear driven.

Did you wipe it off the ball, or did the pushrod do that?

It's black oxide, and it's not factory. Edit, didn't see the adjuster. Does it wipe off the adjuster?

Where is it made? I generally don't buy the cheapest I can find when it comes to lubes and coolants, but a lot of people do and don't have problems.

At this point, if I buy any castings for my Mopar, they're going to be Aluminum.

Now I really want to weld it up.

Maybe not your engine. You're not OP....

Where the hell did they find that? On the Titanic?

If it was mine, I might fix it myself just to see how long it would hold up. I've had great luck welding cast iron with a Tig and SS filler rod. Stop-drill all the cracks, and v-groove and weld. 99% of that manifold isn't structural (I wouldn't lift a motor with it), and the most pressure it...

It's nothing. You're not driving it enough to cook the water out of the oil, and when it cools, condensate forms inside the motor. I used to get short-term-ridden Harley's (AIR COOLED) that would get milkshakes in the trans and engines. "I only ride a couple blocks to my buddie's house, drink a...

Low tension rings and efi are the reason those cylinders last so long. It's a winner

I'm the only one that disconnected the battery, wired up the starter, and then swung it into place? I never had that conversion thing.

I was looking for a computer for my 5.9 swap and could never find one in the pick n' pull yards. I think they pre-pull 'em. Why is the demand so high on them?

#1 look for engines from front-end wrecked vehicles. You know they were likely driving when they died. #2 don't buy engines from rollover vehicles. Oil starvation is a *****. #3 grab the water pump shaft and give it a wiggle. If the water pump is crap, so is the motor. This all assumes...

You're right, that's a great reason to supply the information here, as well.

One of the above solutions are also great for hotwiring and stealing our classic mopars, because all you need is a battery, some jumpers, and access underhood, and then you can bypass all of the factory ignition wiring. Which is why I'm reporting it, even though it is accurate and informative...

That. Was. AWESOME.

I've always wondered if you took the doors off a jeep and then drove down the road hanging out the door opening with pencil in hand, how long of a line could you draw with said pencil before the graphite ran out. A similar method could be used to remove the excess material from the 340 pistons...

****, when I was a kid in Central MO in the '90's, you couldn't find a 340, and couldn't afford it when you did. God made the 340, and mankind created the cylinder sleeve to bless it and keep it holy when it got holey.

This is not typically a DIY operation except on much older engines. If you have the equipment necessary to do this operation, you wouldn't be asking us about it. There is typically significant machining that must take place after they are replaced, and this is typically done after valve guides...

Good question. What's the application? For a mild street build I'd look for a set of OEM castings and clean them up.

I know that my cranks aren't broken.

Probably zero, sadly.

Why don't I enlighten everyone? Because I don't talk out of my ***, that's why. Scat cranks may be blanked in China, but as a I said, MOST people don't do their homework. If Scat does, good for them. The rest take your money and don't give two ***** if it leaves you walking. At least I can...

LOL at this thread. NONE of you have enough info to determine what caused the OP's breakage. NONE. You don't know the alloy, you don't know the grain size, you don't know the damper condition, you don't know the material hardness, you don't know the material toughness. None of you can...

I appreciate them/you being forthright with the nature of the Molnar rods. How come they can't just make 'em here, 100%?

FYI that nifty crank sensor bracket is the least of your worries. Running an automatic and converting to the magnum crank trigger is easy. Standard transmissions are a *****.

Any fuel injection adds a layer of complexity that many users don't want to deal with. It's not that tbi doesn't have benefits, it just doesn't have EXCLUSIVE benefits. What he said still stands and is relevant to the OP

While the 'compromise' on the gasket surface at the valve cover is not acceptable, I'm going to view this from the other side: If I was a design engineer (which I still kinda am), and I knew that my intake was going on any number of factory or aftermarket heads, I would have left those ports...