Half way through the Adelaide Rally the dato started making funny noises, I
drove home which was about 40kms. The lash pad had jumped out, broke the
collet, and dropped the valve into the piston. Sure it was noisey and
smokey but it was still going and beats a $200 towing fee. When we stripped
the engine, number two cylinder had two extra holes where the gudgeon had
been swinging around, the entire piston was in the sump, my old man was
following me and said he could see bits of piston spitting out the exhaust.
The head was mashed, valves without heads, and only a bent con rod.
Dato's just about unstoppable
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick White
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: big ends NOT!
Go the mighty Nisan.
Nearly unstopable.
Haa Haa.
--- "rbamford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>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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