The dealership in Co. said bearings were out and also said they didn't have fitting to put gauge on(it was a holiday weekend, so no one wanted to work on it) ,
OK, shame in them...... a dealership does not have a fitting to check the oil pressure on their own car?
so we took car back to Il. and put another 2500 miles on it before finding an engine from Aims out of Florida. Car drove fine as long as we kept rpms up, no knocking, smoking, etc.
If the "bearings were out", those bearings would be singing at higher rpms.....
This all starts with the Service Manager......he represents the shop.....if the shop doesn't have the fitting, he gets one, immediately, even if he has to borrow it from a competitor......our shop would always go that extra step to help a customer, especially someone who broke down and did not live nearby....It's shops like this that give dealerships, whether they be GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc., a bad rap.....just like anything that happens, you rarely hear the good things that dealerships do, you just hear the bad....one bad incident out of 100 is more than enough to erase the 99 jobs that go without complaint....