Becareful who you ask when you ask 4 help OUCH !!!!!!

[10secgoal]

This used to be a rod rated over 700 HP. Now It's an expensive used chevy rod . Or a paper weight. Changed main body on holley to a proform and had a leak, I knew this. I did not realize it was bad enough to hydrolic a cylinder until I asked my wife for help. " Baby turn the key on and the fuel pump will come on by itself." Crank Crank Thunk Oh oh The motor was siezed after that. Should have seen the disgust on my face when I pull the head to see the #4 piston not coming all the way up. The worst part is I didn't know who made it until a few days ago. NO ONE makes an I-Beam this heavy. That make it hard to find a replacement. But I found one.

 

[akd67]

That isnt straight.



Good luck with your repairs.

 

[12sec67]

that is the bad one right


did you learn your lesson....never ask your wife for help

 

[golf4283]

dang. How does something like that happen?

 

[10secgoal]

The cylinder filled with gas. It doesn't compress. The piston came up, It said " Move, Here I come." The gas said " No you don't. " And the rod took the beating and went home crying. No wait, I did the crying.

 

[12sec67]

The cylinder filled with gas. It doesn't compress. The piston came up, It said " Move, Here I come." The gas said " No you don't. " And the rod took the beating and went home crying. No wait, I did the crying.

that is just crazy!

 

[D.Hearne]

Same thing happens when you drive off into water that's deeper than the aircleaner inlet and the motor's running. Ask me how I know

 

[Fostang]

Same thing happens when you drive off into water that's deeper than the aircleaner inlet and the motor's running. Ask me how I know

Ok, How do you know???

 

[D.Hearne]

Ok, How do you know???

Well, we drove a piece of logging machinery into a slough ( a non moving creek to you northerners) that as far up and down it wasn't over three feet deep ( I walked it) All except for the narrowest part which we were going to bridge. The machine sank into water that was 15-20 feet deep with the 3 cylinder "screamin demon" Detroit Diesel running. It bent all three rods soon as it sucked the water down. My old man was pissed Cost 2 grand to rebuild the Detroit.

 

[Fostang]

ouch!

 

[my66coupe]

man that sucks 10secgoal, I still dont get how this happened, the gas doesnt compress....why??? Is this what they call hydraulic lock? What shape is the piston in? How about the cylinder wall?

Mike

 

[3spd on floor]

for all reasonable purposes, liquids dont compress muchl...if at all. Basically, when the cylinder filled with liquid gasoline, it acted just like a block of iron would have in the cylinder. the rod just so happened to be the weakest link.

 

[GaPonyFarm]

Forget the rod! Replace the wife!

 

[my66coupe]

ahhh I didnt read closely, I thought that it had done with the cylinder full of a gas/air vapor. This makes me glad I replaced my holley that had a bad internal fuel leak.

Mike

 

[10secgoal]

I thought about getting rid of her. But then it was my own damn fault. I should have told her to just turn the key left. None it would have happened. The piston is slightly scratched from the counterbalance of the crank. When the rod got bent it made the rod shorter and the piston hit the crank, but I'll have the new rod balanced to compensate for the missing weight.

 

[gingerbreadman]

Well, we drove a piece of logging machinery into a slough ( a non moving creek to you northerners) that as far up and down it wasn't over three feet deep ( I walked it) All except for the narrowest part which we were going to bridge. The machine sank into water that was 15-20 feet deep with the 3 cylinder "screamin demon" Detroit Diesel running. It bent all three rods soon as it sucked the water down. My old man was pissed Cost 2 grand to rebuild the Detroit.

man iv sunk alot of stuff and never had a problem like that, thats crazy but i can see it happining....... im gonna be much much more carefull now


-gbm-

 

[RogerC62]

That rod looks like the one I took out of a diesel once, only smaller. When I was working on trucks we had about 20+ Ford cabovers with Cat 3208 engines. Well, one of them didn't have a lubefiner on it (holds about 8-12 qts.). I happened to be servicing it one night and wasn't thinking about it and filled it with the normal amount of oil. I set the nozzle for the appropriate amount of oil and let it pump till it shut off. After it shut off, I rolled up the hose, walked around the cab, reached in the door and cranked up the engine. I immediately heard it bogging down so I switched it off. Too late, as I saw oil oozing out the exhaust manifold and realized what happened. Guess what my job was for the next couple of days. It only bent 2 rods, one real bad.