Originally posted by procyon:
PuckPuck, how did you install the damper on your engine and how did you torque it down?
ummmm.... first with an impact gun (to prevent engine from turning while putting it on)... then wedge a screwdriver in there and torque it down to spec... ask me what that is and i'll tell you to look it up 
I have been going around to a few places with my chain and the pieces of it i could find in the oil pan.... basically each link has 4 blades (pardon the horrible terminology but this is how i'm explaining it)... of the 4 blades, i have all the pieces but a small section of one of them... the pin that came out looks to be the cluprit... it seems to me that when they put the pin on, then punch the end so it won't come out (flare it for another term)... well this pin is not as obviously flared as the other ones.... so now i'm leaning even further to just a fluke bad link and improperly assembled... perhaps during the production of my chain the machine broke and they didn't repress the one link...
as of now, i have gone over every possibility, and taken every suggestion i can and seen if that was the culprit... everything always leads back to the chain breaking from stress or poor workmanship....
i would also like to note, when i picked up the engine it had low miles, something like 18K or so, was owned by a retired man, and the taurus was totalled from the rear... i only put just over 1000 miles on it... of which only a few short times did i romp it... so overall the chain had less than 20K miles all of which but a few short moments were babied.... and the chain let go doing 70mph down the highway in 5th gear....
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