Warranty engine block cores

[shovelluv]

Just couious but does anyone know what the Dodge, Plymouth ended up doing with all the original engine blocks that had to be replaced under warrany? Do they get rebuilt, if they are rebuildable ?

 

[mopar 3 B]

Now or then?

 

[shovelluv]

Then

 

[mentor70]

i worked for dodge from 1988 t0 1998...if they called the engines or trans back,they look for the defects, then destroy the parts.

if they did not want them back the dealers would dispose of them.

i had a freind who's dad worked for Chevy in the 1980s, i remember going to visit this dudes dad at the shop one day, two guys were in the back with big sledge hammers smashing some 454 blocks that had to be scrapped.

 

[Bb70charger500]

Hell now the mechanic s get to slip them out the back door and sell them I've seen a few
" warranty" engs come up for sale around here new hemis with very low mileage ,guy told me he said it was bad warranted it out and loaded it up after he had pulled it , then he's trying to sell it on c.l.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm shure a few 426's made it out the back door under "warranty" just like they do today

 

[mopar 3 B]

In 74 we gave it the big hammer treatment. The district warranty rep took photo's and the dealerships was left to dispose of the block or what ever. Anyway that was the way it was supposed to work.

 

[snakeyes]

I loaded them in the back of my truck :grin: