- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
There is a guy who lives in my village who was a Director of JLR (now retired in his 50’s!) who would dress up as a JLR worker to see what was going on on the shop floor. His task was to find out why some of the Lion 6 engines were giving problems with Big-end Shells rotating causing engine seizure, or the crank would splitSo what your saying to me is this new engine won’t give in due to crank failure?
That’d be one hell of a weight off my mind
How on earth did they discover that and also not sooner…?
He went to the plant that grinds the cranks after casting and discovered the chap who was applying up to 250% more power to the straightening tool than PSA had recommended. This is what was causing the occasional crank shaft failure and it to split.
Not all the cranks needed much, if any straightening. Which explains why most are no trouble at all, but some are flawed. This is probably why LR replaced yours as a good will gesture. They knew the cause was their fault.
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