In message <9405120546.AA00533@abingdon.sales> Scott Fisher writes:
> ....nor so broad as a church door, but twill suffice, twill do.
>
> Well, now I know what an engine feels like when it blows a hole
> in the top of its piston.
>
> Yes, I *do* know that's what's wrong. I took the head off tonight
> and there's a nice 1/4" by 1/8" chunk missing from around the edge
> of the #4 piston. The chunk is sitting on top of that piston now.
> There's also a piece of aluminum stuck to the face of the head up
> by the #1 cylinder, but I can't figure that out.
>
> The symptom, BTW, is that the engine suddenly started running very
> rough and making a hammering noise, then it died. (In my driveway,
> I have to say. What a car. Maybe I should call him Phidippides,
> after the Greek runner who returned from the battle of Marathon to
> tell his countrymen, "Victory is ours!" and then expired on the spot.)
>
> (BTW, that's III, i 94-95 for those of you with a copy of the
> whole Canon at your bedside. What? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, of course.)
>
> --Scott "Me? III, i, 134, natch" Fisher
>
>
Scott dare I ask which car lost the engine? Is it time to get serious about the
B engine sitting in front of where the B parks?
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