Anybody see the same show I did?
The 'average garage mechanic' was a restoration specialist ('Rusty Nuts
Rods and Customs'). They said a main bearing was spun, pointed to the
crankshaft hanging on the wall and said the journals in the crank were
shot (probably the major expense to rebuild the engine).
They left it at 'I don't know what to do with this car.' I bet they
follow up on it in a later episode (they made a big deal out of the
father/son conflict).
bs
Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Good point. They certainly didn't get into any details that would back up
> his findings except that it
> was making a noise. That's TV drama for ya. We'll probably never here the
> ending to the story
> cause so far they haven't continued one episode into another one.
>
> Maybe it was just a dramatic , made for TV episode anyway. That car looked
> like it had a total
> restoration done on it so its hard to believe that someone didn't complete the
> job with a decent engine
> redo.
>
> Well , thats enough of that. I now return you to your regularly scheduled
> Healey Stuff.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> They said it had spun a main bearing. How would an average garage mechanic
> be able to know that? Apparently he started and drove it. Would a compression
> test tell you?
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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