miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Pulled this out of my engine earlier 
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Ditch
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Registered: 29th Nov 02
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niiiiice!
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
Location: The FACTory
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eeek!
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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any damage/scoring to the bores because of it??
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miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=148825&page=1&pp=25
Bore seems ok, thanks god.
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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your lucky then! I've seen a bore get well fooked by a conrod with just a slight buckle in it, would of thought somehting that bad would of done same!!
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
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seen a lot of them paul, so bad it scrubbed shiny 
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miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Yeah, hopefully I wont discover anything nasty!
That rod didn't bend in my engine either, well if it did it tidied up any mess it made! lol
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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worse is when it wears down the barrels of the bore so much its either a case of it having new barrels fitted, or new block 
how did it bend then?? can't get into mig at work
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miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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The story goes like this:
Smokes a lot at idle
Take off turbo for recon
Discover a load of oil on the inlet to the turbo from the breather
Do compression test
Cylinder 3 down 3 bar on the others
Remove head and piston
Bent Rod
It has oversized pistons in it, and was meant to be a new engine fitted about 25k ago, so I assume that when this engine was fixed, or a recon fitted, whoever fixed/recon'd the engine fitted the fucked rod. You cant get a damaged rod like that without damaging the piston...
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
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I can't see why they just didn't get a new one to replace it with, not a hell of a lot is it really.... but some people just turn their heads to problems, rather than sorting them. just good that nothing else has been damaged 
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
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I been following this story on Migweb, seems ya were right then, bugger dude, better start looking for a cause then eeekk
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miles
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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I dont think the cause is anything do with my engine, as said, if that rod was damaged in there then there would be some mess on the piston, which there isn't. I'll put it down to a lazy engine rebuilder, and at least that way I dont have to worry 
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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he may have missed the bend..... and just put it all back together...
It takes some force to bend a rod
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
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he may have just been about to check the rod, then his mate kicked him in the bollocks, so when he came back to fit it, he thought he'd already checked it ? 
i ought to be rime minister me im ace
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