Hahahaha! Always wanted to do that!
10-15 mins is pretty good @ WOT ever do an A series? :-)
Eddie
England
17 Datsuns......
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----- Original Message -----
From: Errol Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: RE: big ends NOT!
> In another life, (on the west coast of Tassie) we used to get on the
green
> cans and have engine parties out bush.
>
> In an engine party you bring an engine drained of oil and sump removed. No
> cooling system is used. Set up a fuel can with gravity feed. Wire the carb
> butterfly wide open, start the eng and take bets on how long the engine
will
> continue to run.
>
> Datto L16's were the best as they would sometimes run for up to 10 -15
> minutes with a good really loose engine at the start. If the engine was in
> too good a condition they would usually seize up. Broken rings and loose
> pistons work best. Usually the thing that stops them is that the piston
get
> so worn down (in what was a cylinder bore) that they slow down as less
> compression is available and they die.
>
> Other engine types never lasted as well as Datto L 16's. I have seen con
> rods on engines without sumps glowing red as the rods run on the crank
with
> out bearings They also rattle/knock really well and make nice sparks!
>
> Ford and Holden eights are not much good as the cranks break too easily.
> Surprisingly a little fiat 850 engine was also a good long laster.
>
> Cheers
> Feral Errol
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> http://www.datrats.com.au/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bryce, Ashley -
> COMPAQ
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: big ends NOT!
>
>
> 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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