This is usually how they fracture. I've seen more than one do that.
Since they are cast, they tend to be brittle.
Gerard
At 9:43 PM -0600 12/19/04, Kurtis wrote:
>>I wondered that myself - a 1275 backplate is a purty hefty hunk of iron.
>
><grin>
>
>I had the engine mounted to an engine stand with the top two bolts
>through the plate only (the bottom two were through the plate into
>the block). I was trying to loosen the front pulley/crank bolt, and
>had a breaker bar on it. I was bearing down on the breaker bar when
>I heard a pop and felt something move. At first, I thought I'd
>broken something on the engine stand, but when I looked at the
>plate, I noticed it was in two pieces. It broke pretty much dead
>center (horizontally) through the center opening through the middle
>of the bolt holes that line up with the center opening. I was a
>little surprised that it broke.
>
>BTW, I've found a replacement backplate. David Lieb was kind enough
>to offer me his old one (thanks David!).
>
>Kurtis Jones
>Russellville, Arkansas
>1963 TR4 - CT19389L
>1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
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