Thank you sir, very much appreciate
your sharing, as I would have surmised
possible over heating from a lean process
that over came the dome, collapsing the piston
and eventually melting from the crown down
BUT it sounds like you know a different
scenario played out, very interesting
Joe (ignorance is bliss, and expensive) Amo :)
Jim Dincau wrote:
> Torched, in this case,
> Severe overheating, followed by collapsing of the ring lands and melting
> from the crown down at the exhaust valve side. This of course lets all the
> pressure from both combustion and supercharger into the oil pan where it
> overwhelms the two one inch breather tubes and blows both the pan and valley
> cover gaskets out, very messy.
> The next year with the same tune-up and water system but with a
> mechanical pump we did not have that problem.
> Jim in Palmdale
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
> To: Jim Dincau <jdincau@qnet.com>
> Cc: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@uswest.net>; Clay, Dale <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>;
> 'Dave Dahlgren' <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Dan Warner <dwarner@electrorent.com>;
> land speed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:16 AM
> Subject: Re: fan or no fan
>
> > What do you mean by torched?
> >
> > Like to hear first hand accounts of broken
> > parts, and what is believed to have been the
> > culprit, ie what was changed, if it is possible to
> > isolate one circumstance and one change with
> > better result, usually more than one variable change
> >
> > Just curious
> >
> > Joe :)
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