pulled the sump of and there sittin in the sump was about 1 third of a
piston in about 12 pieces!
the funny thing is i drove it home the other night and it run just fine
apart from the knocking!
the top of the piston must be intact, also no ring fragments in the debris
tho did find a couple of pieces of the lower ring lip in the ruble
dam maybe i could have driven it round for another couple of weeks befor it
let go completly...
maybe not!
cheers
ren
dato 1000 coupe s
stock sunny
urvan (-1/3 piston)
bmw 320 (soon 2 go to replace urvan...damn)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Rudd
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 8:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: big ends
It's been done before, I wish you the best of luck. It depends on what
caused the bearing to fail in the first place, if old age etc then you may
get away with it, if it's an oil gallery blocked then it's not going to do
you much good, in fact you're likely to air-condition the block the next
time it lets go as there wont be the tolerances and the bearing will be more
likely to spin. I'm assuming from the way you're question is worded that
you're not intending to remove the head, so there's not much more you can do
other than try your luck out with just replacing the rod bearings anyway
with just the sump off.
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rbamford
Sent: Tuesday, 27 February 2001 5:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: big ends
I have this crappy old urvan on its last legs and it seems to have done a
big end. Im half way through pulling the sump off and plan to just replace
the big ends in the hope of getting a bit more out of the old dear before
she carks it for good.
Any comments as to the viability of such a move?
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