<VV> Blown engine (humor?)

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

Maybe you can find a used Chevette or Pontiac T 1000 engine !!! <GGG>
Actually I never asked you about that engine but you have insisted in boring
me and all the other VV ers with your tale of woe 
......................Get a new
mechanic to work on your car...................call Walter Carter or 
Bill Elliott
or get David Clemens to sell you a 3.1 Clemens special ..............I bet Mrs.
Smitty would like to drive the wagon with that screamer in it.!!! <GGG>
FrontMan
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At 11:19 PM 11/23/2006, you wrote:
>Smitty says:  A lot of people have asked what happened to the engine 
>in my wagon when it locked up abruptly on the way to Nelson Ledges.

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>  We had a differential "set up" tech session here Saturday and I 
> pulled the block cover off.  As I had sort of guessed a rod bolt 
> broke and the cap came off.  The crank throw came on around and 
> came down onto the piston side of the rod big end, driving it down 
> into the bottom of the block where it broke the cam shaft.  The rod 
> of course has a beautiful curve in it.  The crank suffered a deep 
> gouge on the beautiful low mileage journal.  It appears the sudden 
> stop nearly jerked the cap off of another rod as there is a gap 
> between the cap and rod.  One of the holes in the block could 
> accommodate 5 quarters taped together passing through it.  The 
> skirt of the cyl and piston are bent.
>   So other than a piston/cyl, two rods. a cam ,crank, block, and a 
> couple of lifters it is in pretty good shape.  Anybody want to bet 
> that all the pistons and wristpins and rods pass NDI ?
>big snippero

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