Ok, I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. Thanks to all who
replied about the photos, I'll send them along to Bud in the morning. (Left
my camera at work.) Majordomo also seems to be stripping out my text along
with the photos, but here's what I tried to send with the photos:
Last fall, or early winter, I took my TF on one last drive - it turned out
to be a disaster. As I was driving along I heard a "bang!" followed by a
very loud metallic "clack, clack, clack,clack." I thought I had thrown a
rod.
I had the car towed home and put in storage over the winter.
After a few other projects this spring, I made enough room in the garage to
begin tearing down the engine. These photos show what I found: The head of
a valve had broken off in #4 cylinder and must have shot around in there.
It banged up the head just a little bit, and smashed the top of the piston,
as you see.
Amazingly, it didn't score or scratch the cylinder even a little bit.
So I'm looking for advice. Can I just replace the single piston and rod?
Can I still get original weight pistons? Where should I look? (I'm located
near Abingdon Spares.) I will plan to replace all the rod bearings at the
same time.
Or should I replace all four pistons? Money IS an object here, but I don't
want to do all this work and fail to do an adequate job.
Obviously, I'll plan to have the head rebuilt, P&P'd.
This is in my 1954 TF 1250, car has 33k original miles.
Thanks for any advice,
-Mike Eldred
Wilmington, VT
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