[s-cars] COME ON!!!!!! NIGHTMARE!!!!!

[AUDIJIM at aol.com]

I can't believe this!!!!! I get up at 0430 hrs for work, start the car (93'  
S4) and precede as normal. I get onto the highway and cruise along and I start 
 to hear a knocking. It changes with RPM. I pull over and pop the hood and at 
the  same time a tractor trailer almost hit me and the car. Confirmed, I have 
a knock  and it's bad. I limp the car home and pull the oil pan. Number 5 
connecting rod  only has a small portion of it's rod bearings! 
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is not good. I'm burned my hands taking this apart so 
quickly so I need to  address that soon. Too much adrenaline right now. I'm going 
to see if the crank  is OK and run some very fine emery cloth with a cord and 
see how it looks. The  rod end that I took off looks so-so but I will mike 
everything and see if this  is OK. I just don't understand how this happened. 
There is only 2000 miles on  this engine since I built it. I miked everything and 
AND used plastigauge to  make double sure this was going together correctly. 
I'm totally beside myself  right now.
 
 
Angry Jim