Some months ago the crank in my 14 Touring broke. Eventually I replaced it with a Scat but the engine was noisy. To my ears it sounded like a camshaft noise. I checked the end play, only a couple of thou thanks to the Chaffin Kit that mounts on the front lof the cam gear wheel. With the upcoming tour in Sierra Vista, I decided I could not take the car with the noise so I kept looking
When you use the Scat crank with a four dip pan, the counter weights come very, very close to the sump and there is no space for the “U” shaped bars to hold the inspection cover screws. So I chopped the U bar in half and made two “J” shapes.
One just touched the counter weight. On the picture you can see the shiny bit
- Shiny bit on end of J bar
The camshaft looks fine, I can’t see any rubbing marks though the center bearing may be in wrong way round. So far I can’t find any documentation to which way it goes, but even so it does not appear to touch anything
By the way this gives you some idea of what I disassembled to find the problem.
