Volvo Penta 5.0 to 5.7 - Son of a Beach/ 🤬I Bought a Defective Engine

In this video I was showing my viewers how I start up a new MPI engine when I discovered in real time that the remanufactured engine I purchased had a bent crankshaft. How you can machine a crankshaft and put it in an engine without detecting a bent crankshaft baffles the he** out of me but it’s plainly visible to the naked eye.
So now instead of having a complete engine ready to be installed in the boat I have to take it back apart and replace the crankshaft at my expense. I don’t have time to take it all back apart and send it back to the shop that built it in the first place. What a damn nightmare. But you know what? This is my fault. I violated my policy of not buying reman engines. The customer didn’t want to wait for me to build an engine from scratch and I bought a reman to speed up the process. I lost my butt on this project due to all the re-work I had to do.
Btw it won’t stay running because the wobbling crankshaft nose is causing an erratic signal to be sent to the computer. I wonder if I would have ever caught the bent crankshaft if this was a carburetored engine?

[@elitebuildingsolutionllc8736]

Woow. This is unexpected.

[@moccasinmarine]

No actually it was expected. This is what prompted me to start my marine engine rebuild service 5 years ago. My brother bought two defective marine 4.3 engines back to back in 2019 and knowing I could do a better rebuild job I started this business. But I’ve been rebuilding engines of all types since 1979. A 1974 Toyota 1F gave me the most trouble though. Couldn’t find parts so I had to make my own and many parts I bought new were defective. I documented some of that build on this channel.