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RE: Advice on getting car from SF to LA...

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Subject: RE: Advice on getting car from SF to LA...
From: Adam Steffes <asteffes@asteffes.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
It *might* cost you a bit less to rent a pickup truck and a
wheel dolley from U-Haul than a full-fledged van with trailer.  Just an
idea from someone who has never had to do this before but also doesn't
like driving big vans.
  -Adam

>
> --- "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com> wrote:
> > Apparently the block, once punctured by the rod,
> > developed stress
> > fractures in other cylinders, allowing coolant to
> > flood at least one
> > other cylinder, causing hydrolock.  Or at least, so
> > I'm told.  I'm not
> > an expert here.  I do know that the block has big
> > holes and the crank is
> > in a bunch of pieces.
> >
> > Cheers
> > -b
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alan Gruner [mailto:algruner@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:10 PM
> > > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Re: Advice on getting car from SF to
> > LA...
> > >
> > >
> > > --- "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com> wrote:
> > > > For those that missed the last episode, a rod in
> > my
> > > > LS1 motor seems to
> > > > have broken and punched its way through the soft
> > > > aluminum block,
> > > > resulting in hydrolocking and all sorts of
> > internal
> > > > damage.  Boom!
> > >
> > > How does broken rod cause hydrolock?
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