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There were huge cracks too. That college professor had managed to damned near blow one side off of the engine block and keep driving. I wouldn't have thought it would run but it started easily when he came for it. Two or three rods had to be broken, perhaps a chunk of rod and piston had migrated. I don't know. One of those engines that I would have been curious to pull down just to see the damage but I didn't get the chance to. I have seen more damage to a racing engine but that is the most I ever saw in a street engine. Happened at pretty low RPM too.
Hu
My question is, what kind of oil was he using that it hadn't completely seized? There couldn't have been much left in the oil pan after all that damage!
An oldie but goodie.
stefania constantini, from the host country
When I was a young man, just out of the Corps, my dad was a general contractor with construction contracts with the military for San Nicolas island, a california coastal island. I was running parts for him from Riverside to Point Mugu to have them flown out to the island and on my way up the grape vine, my s10 pickup ran out of oil and put a dollar size hole in the engine block, it made it all the way up the grape vine and was still running when I pulled into a gas station. It kept running until I turned it off but then it locked up and wouldn't turn over again.
As God intended, Hu ...
I think we can rule out Quaker State non detergent, that stuff left carbon behind by the ton and the engine was comparatively clean. Of course most of that carbon was in the top end. Wasn't Quaker State Supreme, that stuff would have probably caught on fire. It wasn't a synthetic oil, that didn't exist for sale to the general public. If they did I never heard of it. Castrol still sold bean oil, no mistaking that smell, wasn't bean oil.
The engine didn't seem particularly hot.
I expected this engine to be locked up when he came back. Started fine and looked like some sort of mechanical display to show how and engine works. One thing I just remembered, this engine had dip cup rods. No pressurized crankshaft oiling system but each rod scoops up it's oil directly from the sump. I guess this explains why an oiling system didn't clog and freeze the engine. Memory fails on those engines. Did the dipped oil have a path up the rod to oil the mains?
Here is a story for you. An older man working for me told this story and swore it was true. He did mechanic work, maybe had a shop. He also had an epileptic daughter.
He had just bolted an entire fresh 327 engine from the parts house in his '55 Chevy. Just finished putting water in it when his wife came outside screaming. Got his daughter into the car and twenty miles to the hospital pretty much wide open! When he got to the hospital they knew his daughter and his wife had called so it didn't take but five or ten minutes to check her into this small town hospital. When he got back to his car it was sitting there with the engine turning backwards like a hot engine will do sometimes. He didn't have anything to lose so he kicked in the starter and managed to get the engine running forwards and drove it back home!
He slept a few hours and after a cup of coffee he went out to the car. Now the engine was locked solid! Fortunately there was a guarantee so he got another one free.
Yeats later Tom and the parts house owner were in the bar together. The parts house owner knew there wasn't something quite jake about that engine return so he asked Tom about it. Tom said "You know my daughter is epileptic. She had a fit and I had to rush her to the hospital. I had just put water in the engine but I didn't have time to put oil in it. Twenty miles to the hospital, twenty miles back, no oil!"
The parts house owner cursed him out but was only half sincere. He knew he might have tried the same thing in that kind of emergency.
Hu
We were replacing the engine for the s10, (bought a used engine), we were doing it under a steel awning at my family's ranch. We had the truck up on jack stands and I was underneath the truck while my dad was up top trying to get the engine to mate to the transmission.
My dad started jumping up and down on the engine trying to get the engine to fall into place and it tilted the passenger side jack stand and fell off the jack stands.
A few minutes earlier I had just been standing around with nothing to do so I said, "Hey dad, I'm going to go ahead and throw on the passenger wheel."
When the truck fell off the jack stands, I felt the oil pan come down and just tap my chest. Had I not just placed the passenger wheel back on, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Rusty in Montana
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A few years ago a good friend of mine was out checking his cows and a handful of traps and snares when a tie rod snapped as he was going down a hill in his pasture .
He jacked it up and did something to try and get it wired back together instead of just calling a wrecker to come and get him .
Long story short he was underneath the front end when it fell and pinned him down they found him dead a couple hours later .
A sad deal all around that was made even worse because I wasn't healthy enough to travel to Nebraska for the funeral because I had just finished up cancer treatments .
Yes I still think of him often !
He jacked it up and did something to try and get it wired back together instead of just calling a wrecker to come and get him .
Long story short he was underneath the front end when it fell and pinned him down they found him dead a couple hours later .
A sad deal all around that was made even worse because I wasn't healthy enough to travel to Nebraska for the funeral because I had just finished up cancer treatments .
Yes I still think of him often !
Ah, curling. Breaks every pool rule in the book. Luv it.
That like Ewokulation?
WilliamK
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One for each snapped conrod.
Close enough.
That doesn't leave a lot to move anything. Maybe somebody took it for a spin or he bought it for 50 bucks or both.
