Ticking.

[Pen_Two]

I would be worried about it. What will happen is that the lose wrist pin will eventually fracture the piston sending pieces of the piston into the pan. You will then have a piston wrist pin attached to a rod being flung around in the cylinder. That will score the cylinder and/or just crack through the cylinder into the water jacket. That is a worse case scenario though and when the time comes it may just crack a piston just enough to allow noticeable blow by before it disintegrates.

If that happens, then it happens. I'd say 236k miles was a good run. I'll just put another one in it when this one goes.

 

[Talyn]

Your right. 236k is a bunch of miles. But you might also want to consider that the block is still usable if you plan on a rebuild.

 

[Pen_Two]

While that is true, the fact that it's my daily driver...the down time could only be one weekend if it does get a swap. So rebuilding one on the side in the mean time while it's still working seems to work better on a time-sensitive schedule.

 

[Talyn]

It does.