On 1/29/05 12:58 PM, "Mike Miller" <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote:

> Volks, especially engine volks,
> 
> A friend has a 85 van with less than 30k on a rebuilt engine.  Mechanic says
> that the new noise in it is wrist pins, dump it.
> 
> What are the chances it is wrist pins with that many miles?
> 
> Is that an engine killer with van engines, or like piston slap in the early
> Audi 5 cylinders, let them slap?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

Would like to know how he is diagnosing wrist pins. I have never seen a
wrist pin failure.

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