Show and tell: lets see your broken parts
06-17-2010, 08:00 AM
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06-17-2010, 09:23 AM
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06-17-2010, 09:42 AM
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I don't know if this qualifies as a broken part. This was my first Corvette. A 69 390hp 427 4-speed loaded convertible (power everything, air and factory AM/FM stereo).
This happened at fairly low speed (35-40 mph) in 1977 on a rainy night. Spun out and broadsided two new cars parked at a restaurant (valet put new caddy & lincoln out front).
Funny part of the story... My head went through the side window so there was a lot of cubes of glass between my shoulder and the door panel. Had to push hard to open the door and I cut the end of my stump (lost my left arm 12 years before). Because it was raining, the few drops of blood spread and covered the end of my stump. The valet came running to see if I was alright and passed out when he saw the blood where my arm was supposed to be. I was fine but the poor kid had a nasty lump on his head.
Only had liability on the car. Wife made me sell the wreck and buy a safer car. Found the 72 454 auto coupe (also loaded but without leather) that I still have. Oh yeah, safer meant something automatic with a non-cloth roof.
This happened at fairly low speed (35-40 mph) in 1977 on a rainy night. Spun out and broadsided two new cars parked at a restaurant (valet put new caddy & lincoln out front).
Funny part of the story... My head went through the side window so there was a lot of cubes of glass between my shoulder and the door panel. Had to push hard to open the door and I cut the end of my stump (lost my left arm 12 years before). Because it was raining, the few drops of blood spread and covered the end of my stump. The valet came running to see if I was alright and passed out when he saw the blood where my arm was supposed to be. I was fine but the poor kid had a nasty lump on his head.
Only had liability on the car. Wife made me sell the wreck and buy a safer car. Found the 72 454 auto coupe (also loaded but without leather) that I still have. Oh yeah, safer meant something automatic with a non-cloth roof.
06-17-2010, 09:51 AM
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I don't know if this qualifies as a broken part. This was my first Corvette. A 69 390hp 427 4-speed loaded convertible (power everything, air and factory AM/FM stereo).
This happened at fairly low speed (35-40 mph) in 1977 on a rainy night. Spun out and broadsided two new cars parked at a restaurant (valet put new caddy & lincoln out front).
Funny part of the story... My head went through the side window so there was a lot of cubes of glass between my shoulder and the door panel. Had to push hard to open the door and I cut the end of my stump (lost my left arm 12 years before). Because it was raining, the few drops of blood spread and covered the end of my stump. The valet came running to see if I was alright and passed out when he saw the blood where my arm was supposed to be. I was fine but the poor kid had a nasty lump on his head.
Only had liability on the car. Wife made me sell the wreck and buy a safer car. Found the 72 454 auto coupe (also loaded but without leather) that I still have. Oh yeah, safer meant something automatic with a non-cloth roof.
This happened at fairly low speed (35-40 mph) in 1977 on a rainy night. Spun out and broadsided two new cars parked at a restaurant (valet put new caddy & lincoln out front).
Funny part of the story... My head went through the side window so there was a lot of cubes of glass between my shoulder and the door panel. Had to push hard to open the door and I cut the end of my stump (lost my left arm 12 years before). Because it was raining, the few drops of blood spread and covered the end of my stump. The valet came running to see if I was alright and passed out when he saw the blood where my arm was supposed to be. I was fine but the poor kid had a nasty lump on his head.
Only had liability on the car. Wife made me sell the wreck and buy a safer car. Found the 72 454 auto coupe (also loaded but without leather) that I still have. Oh yeah, safer meant something automatic with a non-cloth roof.
RIP
06-17-2010, 11:33 PM
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Not broken...BUT really close...
Steering shaft off a friend's C2- the week after had had just done a couple laps at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He said the steering wheel was squeaking!!!!
Steering shaft off a friend's C2- the week after had had just done a couple laps at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He said the steering wheel was squeaking!!!!
06-18-2010, 12:31 AM
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I bought a 4th gen Camaro and pulled the blown LT1 engine. I could barely remove the flywheel because it was twisted and jambed on the bolts so hard they would not undo. I had to hammer on them with an impact for quite a while then the flywheel literally jumped back and forth when I got the last one loose.
So, I pulled the pan and found the culprit. Rod #8 was a beat up piece of I beam with no ends on it rolling around in the pan. Rod #7 was through the cylinder and jammed between the block and the piston head. I wish I had rod #8, the ends were even all rounded from being hammered by the rotating assembly so long. The only other parts of the rod that were recognizable were the parts just around the bolts.
Piston #8 was still in the cylinder. It was just the head broken off at the oil rings. It must have kept dropping into the engine then getting pushed back up. Piston 7 was in pieces - obviously since the head of the piston was jammed between the rod, crank and block.
I also had to hammer in the sides of the pan to get to the bolts. Needless to say, there was very little that could be salvaged. The heads were actually OK except that one spark plug was pushed out damaging the plug threads.
It must have locked up at some decent speed and the sudden lockup and slide jambed the flywheel. It had ran for quite some time with
It something to think it ran that long with rod #8 completely broken off and rolling around in the pan. It's also amazing that rod never broke anything until it finally took out #7. If it was shut off before that had happened then the engine could have been rebuilt.
Peter
So, I pulled the pan and found the culprit. Rod #8 was a beat up piece of I beam with no ends on it rolling around in the pan. Rod #7 was through the cylinder and jammed between the block and the piston head. I wish I had rod #8, the ends were even all rounded from being hammered by the rotating assembly so long. The only other parts of the rod that were recognizable were the parts just around the bolts.
Piston #8 was still in the cylinder. It was just the head broken off at the oil rings. It must have kept dropping into the engine then getting pushed back up. Piston 7 was in pieces - obviously since the head of the piston was jammed between the rod, crank and block.
I also had to hammer in the sides of the pan to get to the bolts. Needless to say, there was very little that could be salvaged. The heads were actually OK except that one spark plug was pushed out damaging the plug threads.
It must have locked up at some decent speed and the sudden lockup and slide jambed the flywheel. It had ran for quite some time with
It something to think it ran that long with rod #8 completely broken off and rolling around in the pan. It's also amazing that rod never broke anything until it finally took out #7. If it was shut off before that had happened then the engine could have been rebuilt.
Peter
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06-18-2010, 03:56 AM
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I was on a local cruise and my tranny decides that it doesn't want to shift from 2nd to 3rd and at about 4000 RPM my oil pump decides to lock up. The lock down was so sudden and at such high RPM the distributor was the weak link. Thankfully no engine internals were damaged since the car immediately shut off due to lack of fire.
The way to check for powdered metal gears, is to use a felt tip pen and see if the ink is asorbed into the metal if it is, throw that pump away or give it to someone you don't like
06-18-2010, 05:13 PM
#50
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I got the pump with the engine rebuild kit so I don't really remember. It's been two years since I did the rebuild but I have had other issues keeping from putting a lot of miles on the car. The engine only had 2400 miles on it in the two years I've rebuilt it and I'm sure that's what it could have been. I did upgrade the pump this go round.
06-20-2010, 12:07 AM
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06-20-2010, 08:30 AM
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"You know, if you just take that off, and install it on the other side, and do the same thing to it, it'll just work itself out."
We can assume that the car hooks up well................ :-)
We can assume that the car hooks up well................ :-)
06-23-2010, 10:05 AM
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06-23-2010, 06:25 PM
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Gingerbreadman1977 can probably explain this wreck better but I've seen wrecks like them in person.
This is a fairly typical accident in Australia. They don't happen often but are really horrendous when they do. The roads are mostly 2-lane and just wide enough for their big rigs and buses. That accident looks like it involved a road train with roo bars on it (road trains are a bit bigger than our big rigs here in the US). Very little survives a collision with one of those. For more info and a couple of pictures of the wee ones:
http://outbacktowing.tripod.com/
"The Australian Road-Train are the longest trucks in the world. They have 3 or more trailers and are 53 metres long, ( 174 feet ) hauling 115 metric tons (253,531 pounds). Keep an eye open for the super Road-Train it has 7 trailers and hauls 190 metric tons."
This is a fairly typical accident in Australia. They don't happen often but are really horrendous when they do. The roads are mostly 2-lane and just wide enough for their big rigs and buses. That accident looks like it involved a road train with roo bars on it (road trains are a bit bigger than our big rigs here in the US). Very little survives a collision with one of those. For more info and a couple of pictures of the wee ones:
http://outbacktowing.tripod.com/
"The Australian Road-Train are the longest trucks in the world. They have 3 or more trailers and are 53 metres long, ( 174 feet ) hauling 115 metric tons (253,531 pounds). Keep an eye open for the super Road-Train it has 7 trailers and hauls 190 metric tons."
