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Anyone had crank walk on 1g 7bolt

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1WheelDrive

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May 11, 2004
Calgary,
I have this little issue with my newly built motor. Ever since I got it back about 8000kms ago my idle goes down a little when I engage the clutch. The clutch I have is an RPS turbo clutch 2500. I am just wondering if my symptums are that of a walking crank.
Here they are:

Idle drops about 350rpm when I put the clutch in (has slowly gotten worse, used to only be 100 rpm)

Clutch sometimes does not fully disengage when I am slowing down. If I hold the clutch to the floor for a couple of seconds it usually does, and also if I pump the clutch it works fine. I can tell when the clutch doesn't disengage cause: one: the rpms don't drop below 1000 and two: there is no pressure at the top of the clutch. ( I have replaced the slave and bled the system about 4000 kms ago and no fluid has been lost since then).

Clutch engages in different possisions about half of the time

I recently (yesterday) have a terrible noise comming from the somewhere around the area of the exhaust manifold but nothing apears to be leaking and boost is still stong. It also vibrates a little more than normal (keeping in mind that I have no balance shaft and solid motor mounts, no mounts are broken iether) It is sortof sounds like a diesel motor on start up, and around 2000 to 2500 rpm under any load. Not so much while I'm in neutral though.

Although this motor is fully built with 9 to 1 cr je forged pistons, rods, head bolts, a b16g turbo and a bunch of other crap, I don't really bag on it. Infact, I would say I drive it easier than before I had it done. Max boost has been 17psi which for this application is low. Never leaned out cause It runs pig rich since I do not yet have it fully tuned. Sorry for the long post but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thanks.
 
Thanks, I was looking for that info before I posted but couldn't seem to find it.
Warranty, grey area as my motor is a full race motor. When the open it up and see that it was them or the machine shop, it will be covered.
 
So, we found out the problem. Both Main bearings are worn down to almost nothing. I was probably about 5 more kilometers away from catastrophic engine failure.
So, they are telling me that my bearings where worn down from:

1) clutch problems - although my clutch only started acting up about 1000kms after I got the motor back with the above problems I thought might be related to crank walk which infact, in a round about way, where.

-----OR-----

2) over reving - god damn, ####ing bull shit. I do not over rev my motor! I don't spend $6000 to blow shit up. I've been driving a DSM for almost 4 years now and all of a sudden, my driving is ruining bearings. No. It's sad how my motor was in better shape before the rebuild. Besides, we all know that a 4g63 will handle many accidental over revs without any issues.

Personally, I think that the crank is out of spec, I will have them check it and get back to you.
 
A crank that was not aligned (a common problem with 2Gs) will definitely cause that problem. Mitsu psudo-remedied this after the fact by using "matched" bearings.

As for overreving.. your car has a revlimiter set to 7200RPM which you cannot exceed (well unless you downshift at 7200RPM OMG ).. so tell the guy he's FOS on that theory.
 
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