Posted by: Ken Merring ®
2001/09/17, 14:33:24
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:Well, it took me a little over a week to post this. Needed some time to cool off. My Mav is dead. Have (had) about 5000 miles on the rebuilt engine. Drove her to work a week ago this past Thursday. On the way home that night, about 3 miles from home, the no. 2 connecting rod either broke to the cap somehow came off. Do not know which one because I towed it to my garage where it has set un-touched until last night. I do know that the no. 2 piston does not move and when I shut the engine off it was making one hell of a racket. Last night, my nephew came home from working on his T-bird and told me there in a huge puddle of tranny fluid on the garage floor under the Mav. Have no idea where it leaked from (obviously the transmission). So, again, it is parked for the rest of the year. At least I got 5 months of enjoyment out of my car and rebuilt engine... ..Brian, I'm sorry to hear that your engine gave up. I'm just wondering if you had it rebuilt using the original pistons. From your discription of the noise, it sounds like a piston shirt broke up and left the rod flop loose in the bore then it caught up. I saw this happen in a 74-302. The pistons from back in the 70s are known to break skirts in high milage engines. I always recomend a rebuild use new pistons for that reason as the losses that result are quite high. Hang in there and put some thought to a 330 or 347 block assembly.
...I did a ring job on a race engine that did not require the rods to be removed. The customer lost it sat. nite in the feature coming up thru, when a rod cap let loose so now he starts over again also. (Suzuki DOHC 4)motor cycle engine in a midget. The owner is known to wind engines to the moon anyway!
Good luck, Ken
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