[Shop-talk] Volvo Engine Swap

[Jim Stone]

That is the kind of thing that scares me about the project.  Wouldn't
cam/piston/rod damage be noticeable if you turned the engine through several
revolutions once the head was off?

> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:34:42 -0400
> From: fishplate at gmail.com
> To: Shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Volvo Engine Swap
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Jim Stone <jandkstone99 at msn.com> wrote:
> >  I was under the impression that a broken
> > timing belt was likely to trash the entire engine.
>
> My only real experience with this is in Volkswagen OHC engines back in
> the day.   I seem to recall that at least one car we saw had hit hard
> enough for the valves to break the camshaft in several pieces, but
> only left some half-moon shaped dents in the pistons.  It was
> difficult to evaluate what damage might have been done -- There is the
> risk of one or more cracked pistons or bent rods, which would not
> necessarily be obvious.
>
> Jeff Scarbrough
> Corrosion Acres, Ga.
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