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Re: Massive Oil Leak - HELP!

To: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Massive Oil Leak - HELP!
From: Zink <zink@pdq.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 02:04:31 -0600
Cc: Bernard.Christian-Woodruff@ping.be, triumph list <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
References: <97Dec22.130100gmt.66314@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>
James wrote:
> 
> I had somthing like that happen on the old spitfire engin,
> I found it to a cylinder, pison oil rings, problem.
> Don't know what, I got a short engin for 30 quid, and havent
> looked back.  On my car the symptoms were a trail of smoke,
> as dence as a decent fog, no oil, running rough, and
> oil beaing blown out the dip stick all over the engin.
> 
> So I loosened the sparkplugs, and turned it over, the plugs
> all wiggled except for cylider two.  When I got the head off,
> I found that half the piston was missing, but with no evedence
> of any thing else beaind damaged, the cylinder walls looked fine
> for an engin of that milage.
> 
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot


Sounds like a spun main crank shaft bearing may have started the
problem.  Be sure to check them very carefully.

Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4
Houston

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