Mike's images can be seen at http://www.ttalk.info/picture_this.htm as
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Bud Krueger
52TD
admin@ttalk.info
Mike Eldred wrote:
> 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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