James wrote:
>
> I had somthing like that happen on the old spitfire engin,
> I found it to a cylinder, pison oil rings, problem.
> Don't know what, I got a short engin for 30 quid, and havent
> looked back. On my car the symptoms were a trail of smoke,
> as dence as a decent fog, no oil, running rough, and
> oil beaing blown out the dip stick all over the engin.
>
> So I loosened the sparkplugs, and turned it over, the plugs
> all wiggled except for cylider two. When I got the head off,
> I found that half the piston was missing, but with no evedence
> of any thing else beaind damaged, the cylinder walls looked fine
> for an engin of that milage.
>
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
Sounds like a spun main crank shaft bearing may have started the
problem. Be sure to check them very carefully.
Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4
Houston
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