Ran When Parked

pretty neat, haha maybe that why it was parked

 

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I agree that a starter motor by itself is probably
not strong enough to bend a rod in a hydro-locked
cylinder, but if the cylinder with the liquid in it is at
bdc or just starting to come up on the compression
stroke and another cylinder fires, that can definitely
be enough force to cause a rod to bend.

Mart3406
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This is alittle off subject, but a guy brought me a car with a slant six in it. Said it ran ruff and leaked oil real bad. Did a compression check on it and had 0 in one cylinder, stuck a screwdriver down the sparkplug hole and it would'nt go in at all. Looked with a light and the piston was at the top of the cylinder. Rotated the engine over again and the piston didn't move, so looked at where all the oil was coming from under the starter, removed it and there was a hole the size of a grapfruit! Engine still ran, but ruff and didn't even knock or make any other strange noise.

 

The guy should have said he ran away from it when he parked it.

 

dude I think you pounded them out too hard ,,, lol

 

A starter might be able to bend a rod, but not like that. That motor must have been hauling *** when the water got in.

 

More homemade trophy material. Chubby Checker shouts out!! "Everybody Twist". The motor listened!! ~Sololobo~

 

Had the same thing happen to me with an O/T car. Was pickin' it up knowing it had a bad rod knock, and the rod let go while I was pullin' it in the trailer. Nothing gets your attention like a rod knock noise going completely away, and being replaced by a steady miss! Blew a hole in the front of the block (inline four), but stayed runnin, long enough to pull it back in the trailer, and start it up and pull it back out, and move it around the garage.

 

We had a Caddy Northstar that got driven through a nice puddle.. I've got the rod hangin' on the wall right in front of me.. Those are worse though...