Sorry to jack your thread Johnnyappolo...Originally Posted by Joe_Black
There's no differences in the pistons as the engines are the same having been pulled from the same assembly plant and production runs as concurrent Troopers, Rodeos and other light/medium trucks using the 6VE1. I've had the opportunity to check not only actual pistons and other components but the engines themselves and they're all the same. It simply isn't good business practice either to set up the scenario you suggest, especially as Isuzu is well known for using what they already have in production. That's also why you can find and cross many of the same parts across all lines of Isuzu light and medium trucks. You'd be surprised how much NPR stuff is in a VX!
As for looking at the baffling, I meant inside the new catch can.
Joe, we're going to have to agree to disagree.. I'm tired of this debate... I beg to differ... I've seen the pistons from TWO different '99 6VE1's a trooper and a VX... and the pistons from a brand new rebuild kit when I was contemplating going that route... they are DIFFERENT pistons... not a huge difference but noticable.. the rings are slightly thicker... the space for the rings are thicker to accomodate the rings and the spaces between the rings is different... I know.. I saw... I showed it to Tone also, he had a set from a blown '99... he agreed it was different face to face with me. And I had pics of the rebuild kit pistons on my phone, (which I lost, dropped it in the Guadalupe River). Go to a auto parts place and ask to see a rebuild kit for a '99 trooper, they "might" have it in stock... one O'Reilly's in San Antonio had one in stock after I spent three days hunting one down. I have an '02 Axiom engine in my VX now that doesn't use a single drop of oil... There has to be something different/FIXED on engines after may of 2000... the rate of blown engines after that DRAMATICALLY decreases... and it can't just be because of miles... the number of engines blown that were manufactured before May of 2000 covers a big spectrum of milage... I've read from 26k to 175k... and I'm only talking about the ones that blew from large oil consumption and starving piston one/bearing one on the crank... because of oil consumption caused by oil blow-by that stopped happening for the vast majority of engines built AFTER May of 2000.
P.S. my bad on the baffle thing... I know it was put forth here before, I think by Psycho (apologies if it wasn't him) that the baffles on the valve covers just under the PCV valve was a faulty design and that was why the PCV valves were failing, that's why I said those baffles are the same
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