3.3 interchange info

I recently, last winter, purchased a 93 T&C for work purposes.
Shortly
thereafter both rear springs snapped. Since I load it I put on a set
of H-D springs that really gave the van quite a rake.

Within two days I had a windowed block and a seized crank.

Could the rake have exposed the oil pick up? It looks like
that rod journal or two seemed very dry looking and possibly a bluish
tint. I had hoped to just disable that cylinder but with the crank
seized I don't think that will work either.

So, out of curiosity, what all years of car/truck 3.3 will
interchange with this one?
Thanks.

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0700, Fly-by-night wrote:

> I recently, last winter, purchased a 93 T&C for work purposes.
> Shortly
> thereafter both rear springs snapped. Since I load it I put on a set
> of H-D springs that really gave the van quite a rake.
>
> Within two days I had a windowed block and a seized crank.
>
> Could the rake have exposed the oil pick up? It looks like
> that rod journal or two seemed very dry looking and possibly a bluish
> tint. I had hoped to just disable that cylinder but with the crank
> seized I don't think that will work either.
>
> So, out of curiosity, what all years of car/truck 3.3 will
> interchange with this one?
> Thanks.


Pretty much any 3.3 with slide in there, but there were so many of these
things made they're all over the place!

I went to car-part.com about a year ago and there was a guy in Ohio with
something like 50 of these for $99!