[DeTomaso] BBORR engine failure

[asajay at asajay.com]

With all due seriousness... if Will is correct, consider this.  If the  
rear cam plug came out, where does it go?  Between the block and the  
flywheel, it turns, gets caught and BANG, gets twisted into a pretzel,  
gets caught again and BANG, eventually falling to the bottom of the  
bell housing.

The whole timing thing still has me bugged though.  I think you may  
have got some bad gas as you were suspecting, but I'm anxious to see  
the forensic results.  Take lots of pictures.

Asa Jay

Quoting michael frazier <red3644 at hotmail.com>:

>
> Yes, things are a little clearer now. I don't think a gallery plug   
> came out unless they were just the freeze plug type. I don't think   
> so.  Jim was looking at the oil pressure gauge when it happened and   
> said the pressure bled down over several seconds as I was looking   
> for a place to crash land.  There may not be a hole in a piston   
> after all.  Like I said, there were some strange
>
> timing variations I should have paid more attention to and that may   
> show a cam/dist/oil pump drive problem.  I'm still not sure if I   
> heard or just felt something.  It was like a real short harsh   
> misfire event.  Hope to find out this weekend.  Any other conspiracy
>
> theories?  Thanks.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> LOL... I needed that one.
>>
>> I was thinking maybe you pushed the cam plug out the back.
>>
>> I don't think you knocked out the threaded plugs. Highly unlikely.
>>
>> The cam plug, however, could explain a loss of oil pressure without dumping
>> all of the oil out of your engine. There are only 3 ways I can think of
>> getting oil into your bell housing - cam plug, oil gallery plugs, or rear
>> main. The rear main wouldn't cause loss of oil pressure, the oil gallery
>> plugs would empty a lot more than 1/2 quart, the cam plug could come out,
>> though, especially if you burnt a piston and pressurized your crankcase.
>>
>> Did you check the oil to see if it was Chevy oil? You might have sucked up
>> oil debris from that Corvette you were following.
>
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