[Blown Engine question...]

[losinit@usa.net (Cathy Boyko)]

Obviously oil figures prominently. I killed a 350 back in the day when th=
e oil
pump stopped working, lots of oil in it, valves got noisy, then it died (=
no
kidding eh?). Siezed piston, snapped connecting rod. (I was running a guy=
 at a
light too!) It got an oil pressure guage after that. As for ours, not a t=
otal
write off, but serious, is the ever popular crank keyway problem (this gi=
ves
what is best described as "continuously variable timing", but not in a go=
od
way.) That's what lead to my only two new engines.
Cathy
1987 2L 16V "the silver headache"
1980 running parts car
looking for Rocc #3

Cory Langford <corylang@dccnet.com> wrote:
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> I have seen a number of listers having real troubles with their engines=

> over the last year.  Thrown rods, broken cranks, broken wrist pins, etc=
,
etc.
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> Having only ever taken out a head gasket. I figure it might be time to =
get
> a good list of things that could go wrong and their symptoms :)
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> So what are the obvious symptoms of the various ways we can kill an
engine...
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> Cory Langford
> '86 turbo project - running, just needs tuning :)
> '79 Cheap Ass turbo daily driver - Restore in progress...
> '65 Ghia - The next project in the garage
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