replying to Steve Stone, Richard wrote:
Quite agree Steve, spot on advice re oil, and the weak bottom end....a basic
engineering design fault, to not provide a shade more bearing width, and the
extra drag too minimal to shave even 1 mpg off the standard. It is staggering
to see a team of Chrysler design engineers so incompetent as to provide an
engine that is on a par with a 1960,s engine....narrow bearings and too high a
load to cope...but they lasted longer then even with the rubbish oils of that
era. I have a very dim view of today,s engineers, where even Lexus get it
wrong...too many smart letter after a name , and no spanner experience makes a
crap designer. .
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