Bad day for babbit
My 30 coupe started getting a little loud, I opted to leave it parked for about a month before I got the itch to dive and see what was wrong. I was hoping it was a shim that needed to be taken up. Well I drained the oil and dropped the pan and was met with some not so friendly chunks of metal in the oil pan.
The 2nd Cylinder connecting rod was missing some babbit along the edges of the rod cap. So I took the cap off and was met with what you see in the attached photo.
I can't say for sure that it's a workmanship issue or if it's just a stroke of bad luck- as I'm not sure who did the work in the past . But the rest of the engine looks immaculate. cylinder bores look good cam is in excellent shape and until I took it apart it's always started reliably. I truly suspect there aren't that miles on this engine since it's last overhaul-but I don't really know any of it's past.
So my question is what would you do in the situation?
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