The shot of the crankshaft on the wall was a bit confusing because they
then panned to the engine still sitting in the car. I took it to be
some old crank from another engine that he had to show the pawn guy what
a crankshaft looked like.
Bob Spidell wrote:
> 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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