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Message: [QUOTE="Powerstroked162, post: 631690, member: 120"] What more could have been done?? Did nobody rotate the assembly after shipping to check for any possible debri that could have entered the cylinders during shipping? Surely, or i should say hopefully, a thorough inspection should have been done once the pallet was unwrapped and it was on the stand to check for contaminants before reassembly. I know of the few motors I've had shipped to me in short block form, there had been times where sand, dirt, even wood from the pallet had made their way into the engine and would have caused issues had it not been inspected and cleaned prior to reassembly. Regardless, Had that been done, I'm almost positive the oil squirter issue would have been noticed. Shoot, maybe it was done and whoever was doing it at your shop missed it completely. How that could have happened without being noticed im not sure but you certainly never know. Anyway, Getting new parts made and doing r&d comes with both goods and bads. Generally we hope for the best and expect the worst. When you have hard parts made such as rods, you most definitely should be up to speed on as much of the process as possible as well as double and triple checking what you get in return to ensure your customers happiness and the products performance/reliability. I guess my point is that you guys aren't an engine building shop. You aren't even a fab shop. It's bolt on and go stuff for the most part, which is absolutely fine and most definitely your niche. Unfortunately, no experience leads to situations like these. While I feel Crower should have noticed it themselves, I also feel that it falls on the shoulders of the shop who took them parts to have pieces made in return. Installed said parts and took next to no time to investigate or initiate their own R&D into the mater, prior to assembly of the engine. Crower rods aren't like AFE intakes. it's a little more complicated than that. I feel, and again it is solely my opinion, that Alligator was in over there head and dropped the ball. To see you blaming Crower to the fullest extent is why i ask the questions I do, because I do not agree with it It's also interesting that crower sent you an assembled short block with no extra rods yet there were plenty of pictures taken at alligator and posted by alligator employees floating around of a mangled stock 6.7 rod, a stock 6.7 rod, and a crower replacement 6.7 rod all together side by side. Maybe i can do some digging and find the pictures. Or perhaps I am mistaken in what I saw. Still stands what I said earlier, one way or another. . [/QUOTE]