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Originally Posted by Brian Baker
You're thinking in the right direction. I have seen cases where the thrust bearing on the crankshaft was wiped out from a convertor that "ballooned". This is typically only experienced in high-HP applications, especially with nitrous or boost.
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My kid had a Thunderbird Super coupe, and we'd put a new crate engine in it. Within 20K miles, motor was trashed, and turns out converter was ballooning to the point of taking out the thrust brg, and had left an imprint of the flex plate bolts in it! Was running about 12lbs of boost.