Wow, can a pothole really damage an engine bearing? I went over a trench
across a county road that had only been partially filled in with gravel. It
was such a terrible jolt that my back was sore for several days. When I went
back to take some pictures of the "chasm", it was already paved over. I
never detected any damage to the TD (not even the cheese-whiz alloy wheels).
My back got better also, but I'm still mad at the county for their gross
negligence. I hope someone sued their ass.
Bob Donahue (Still stuck in the '50s)
Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
52 MGTD - NEMGTR #11470
71 MGB - NAMGBR #7-3336
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----- Original Message -----
From: "james" <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>
To: <AGreenberg@aol.com>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Oil pressure
> About the bearing, I hit a pothole at speed so hard that I lost 20lbs oil
> pressure. I opened up the pan to replace the pump and found that the
> locating tab had broken off of the #1 rod bearing and it had spun and
> pulverized itself. No audible damage and all journals still to spec but
the
> pan was full of bearing parts. I think I looked just before it was going
to
> start knocking, since there wasn't a whole lot of bearing left intact.
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