10v Motor Eats Alum Shavings for Breakfast...

[JShadzi at aol.com]

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Right, I didn't go into any explanations, but what it appeared had happened
was that the alum shavings passed throught the motor, were caught in the cat
(thus my reference to the tight ceramin matrix), melted and combined.  There
were no 3/8" balls of anything in my IC.

Javad

In a message dated 10/8/2003 7:10:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kentmclean at mindspring.com writes:
Javad wrote:
> a 3/8" ball of molten alum, trapped against is will and
> gleefully digested by 80tq's 10v motor.

It may have been the aluminum shavings that were passed
through, and the cat just melted them into a ball.  I can't
imagine a 3/8" ball of anything passing by the valves, twice,
(once on the way in, once on the way out), without there
being some loud noises and damage.

Kent
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy"