interesting photo, bent connecting rod

[Mike Arman]

>Message: 6
>From: "Dave Glubrecht"
>Subject: Re: interesting photo, bent connecting rod

>I will try to post a pic of one I just found when I went to replace the
>engine in a 90.
>They had taken it to a shop complaining that the oil press gauge showed low
>oil press, was told it was a gauge problem.  Apparently the older gentelmen
>didn't hear it until much too late.  It had punched holes in both sides of
>the block and broke the piston apart until it was no longer connected to
>anything.  I found it half way out the hole.
>  Dave G
>


When I originally bought my 5K from the very back row of a local sleazeball
used car lot, it had thrown a rod, complete with a hole on each side of the
block.

It started (not easily), and actually ran (not well), and even had some oil
pressure. I used the engine just long enough to get the car to where I was
going to work on it - and I had a spare engine ready to go by then. The
body and interior of the car were flawless, it was "jest a little noisy,
nuthin a coupla cans of STP won't cure . . . "


Best Regards,

Mike Arman