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Well, ive had this weird noise on my rebuilt 6 Bolt Engine Since The Day I Bought It. I never thought anything big of it. A Few people thought it was the timing belt braking in. On Start Up the car sounded like it was supercharged literally a very audible whining noise. Nothing bad though no screeching or anything for that matter. Well my car started leaking a little bit of oil. A senior member suggested a new front main seal perhaps. So we took it all apart. First time ive seen the front of my engine without the timing cover on etc. Inspecting everything nicely. Go To Turn The Oil Pump Its Not Turn-able By Hand. Put The Gear on Tried Turning it By Hand It still was hard to Turn. We spend the few extra minutes it takes to take it apart completely and this is what we discovered.












A Very sad moment.


The Vital Lesson is If It Doesn't Feel Right Or Sound Right Something is wrong. A few potential things that could of caused this. Not using the right Balance shaft elimination stubby shaft. The Dealer actually sells them for very cheap and nicely designed shafts with oil holes. My stubby shaft did not have any oil holes in the first place. Probably some aftermarket design. I want to say my bearings are still ok, there werent to many metal shraps in the oil itself. However in the oil pump itself though that's a different story. Ill be doing frequent oil changes probably 3 every 500 miles again. just to make sure i get them all out. Bearing side play was very nice though nothing out of the ordinary. Im really glad we took it apart instead of putting it back together without checking first. Very Very Important as well. When going to reassemble your bottom end putting a small amount of RTV on the oil pan gasket surface will do. I found big chunks of RTV on my oil pick up tube screen. Not excited about that neither. So Either Exercise self control or just simply use the Oil Pan Gasket That Mitsubishi payed engineers to design because IT WORKS!!!!!

Hopefully this will help someone some day.