I say make the move. Let me know when/if you need a part time mechanic.
Happy birthday. Now get a job.
Pistons are out and the ring land on #4 is toast. It also broke the ring as well which is something I have not seen before. All the cylinder...
this is the baseline. They only get bigger from this point forward ;)
Did this happen to have occured around 12:30 on hwy 141 this afternoon? I saw an accident there when I was out to lunch.
No obvious damage to 2 or 4 but usually you don't loose the crown so you can't tell til you pull the piston. I didn't get the heads off of 1...
Now that the UAW owns almost a 20% share of GM they will realize what a drain they are on themselves. Already to get that share of the company...
All the paranoid Democrats thought Bush would do the same until the war on terrorism was over. Now it seems it is the paranoid Republicans turn....
I'm local and I have a used alt, starter and may have an extra pulley. 150 for the starter and alt and I'll even give you a 6 month warranty.
I'm tearing down the block tonight to see what has gone wrong. Hopefully the walls won't be too damaged. I'll post pics when I get it apart.
what kind of shape was it in when you last drove it?
I think the maf was a little past its max voltage ;). And it was even scaled for a perrin big maf.
I ran a mix of nirto and methanol with my meth injection. I got up to a 50 50 mix before things went bad. Here is a comparison I did on back...
I always just hit the site and click new post. There really isn't any reason to show the top 10 in sections that haven't had any activity....
I think running a nitro / meth mix was the death of my stock 2.5 ;)
I have 120k miles and I put them in at 70 so its actually only 50k but that is still not bad. They lasted the same as my original 2.0 where as the...
Mahle 4032's with stock rods.
3 cylinders ftw
I had 60k miles on the motor so it was only a matter of time. Forged pistons don't last forever.
I'll probably pull the engine tommorow if I can find a beater. There is a Justy on Craigslist that I was thinking of getting even before...
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