Oooh, bummer. Now you need *help* to *fix* it, right, he asked, volunteering...
In message <9405120546.AA00533@abingdon.sales> you write:
>...nor so broad as a church door, but twill suffice, twill do.
>
>Well, now I know what an engine feels like when it blows a hole
>in the top of its piston.
>
>Yes, I *do* know that's what's wrong. I took the head off tonight
>and there's a nice 1/4" by 1/8" chunk missing from around the edge
>of the #4 piston. The chunk is sitting on top of that piston now.
>There's also a piece of aluminum stuck to the face of the head up
>by the #1 cylinder, but I can't figure that out.
>
>The symptom, BTW, is that the engine suddenly started running very
>rough and making a hammering noise, then it died. (In my driveway,
>I have to say. What a car. Maybe I should call him Phidippides,
>after the Greek runner who returned from the battle of Marathon to
>tell his countrymen, "Victory is ours!" and then expired on the spot.)
>
>(BTW, that's III, i 94-95 for those of you with a copy of the
>whole Canon at your bedside. What? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, of course.)
>
>--Scott "Me? III, i, 134, natch" Fisher
>
>
|