Silver Seal Needs To Get Out Of The Parts Business

[Blown&Injected]

Two brand new covers and both of them are crap!

I have read about all the poor mfg by this mfr so I was careful to examine and clean up the parts but when porosity in a casting opens in to a drilled a tapped hole it gets hard to find until the oil pours out.

Go to roller cam and while cover is off/engine out - plug hole - it was in one of the oil pan bolt holes that is not used anyway - sucks to have to do this with a new part but it should seal up.

Oil galley plug causes me to go back in so I get a new cover. Everything is set up great on the stand so I drop it in and then go to pre-lube the engine - oil pours out of the new cover - there is a tiny flaw in the casting of the other new cover too.

SILVER SEAL: 19224 Allen Rd, Brownstown Twp, MI 48183-1065
from terraserver decimal deg-min-sec
latitude 42.16630400 42° 9' 58.6944"
longitude -83.22702300 -83° 13' 37.2828"


Would it be wrong to send this information to Ted Kaczynski and or Hammas?

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Maybe next time, prime on the stand??
I use a temporary filter arrangement when priming the engine.
That helps remove the trash before it gets run thru the engine under load, at 2500 rpm??

 

[Blown&Injected]

Oh man. Yeah, I was thinking about that.

I do not use the new oil cooler until after the first oil change, about 30 minutes run time + several tanks of gas just to be sure that I do not contaminate a new cooler system. You know, just incase something goes wrong - thank you Silver Seal .

The only reason I did not do it on the stand, pre-lube it that is , was because I did not know where the pipe plug for my mechanical oil pressure gauge was. I actually thought about just using about six inches of 1/8" copper tube and a new ferrule and crimp it off just so I could pre-lube it on the stand.

As usual, my first desire was correct, but man, everything was right on and clean on the stand so what could go wrong...

 

[G McCall]

Years ago I ordered an intercooler from a well known Vender.

Order arrived and I was excited about how much the new intercooler was going to help. Before the install I start admiring my new part and noticed that the intercooler pipes are literally caked with metal shavings.....I mean all pipes were oily and the metal shavings had never been cleaned out of the middle of the pipes. A disaster waiting to happen


I called the Vender to let them know about it.

Workmanship on many aftermarket parts has been a crap shoot as long as I can remember. Much of it though is plan shoddy work and could be avoided.