Originally Posted by
KK-racing
Make sure the piston is at TDC(upper position) before reinstalling the back cover.
I've never heard of that before, what difference does that make?
Originally Posted by
kmorast
Next week the post will be "engine destroyed by wrist pin clip"
Been there, done that. Makes a really cool noise. Blipping the throttle through a rhythm section, "briiip briiip briiip BRAAACK" flameout.
Everyone kinda looks around as the car rolls to a stop, "well that didn't sound very good"
Looked like the clip worked its way up past the piston and into the top end, then the piston beat it into the cylinder head about 900 times. New piston, new sleeve, new conrod, good thing we bought 4 pairs of those wrist pin clips, and scraped and filed off as much of the damage to the head as possible.