atm92484
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| posted on 13/7/10 at 09:28 PM |
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I'll throw out another vote for a dropped valve.
Been there, done it before. The piston was annihilated and smashed to pieces but the lower portion of connecting rod was pretty much perfect.
-Andrew
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norfolkluego
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 08:21 PM |
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Finally got inside it today. Not a dropped valve, they're fine, piston has disintegrated completely, nothing left of it at all, not a trace, con
rod actually looks pefectly heathly, pin is still in place and looks in remarkably good nick considering.
Looks like it was fuelling or ingition or a combination of both (of course I'm making the assumption there was a piston in there to start with
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Just possible I suppose that the piston had an inherant fault that was waiting to go. Interestingly one of the MSA officials down at Debden who saw me
blow up came over just to check I was OK, said before we even lifted the bonnet, 'bet it's number 2 cylinder, quite common', he was
right.
[Edited on 17/7/10 by norfolkluego]
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