My engine blown need another urgent

[Chris Lowe]

 

13 minutes ago, jacko264 said:

If a rod /Conrod snaps it’s normally the small end in the piston that gives up  this is often caused by over reving the engine or

short of oil 

It makes a glorious mess when that happens, i had one go driving my old ?Austin Cambridge to Chichester the police were not happy that I'd coated the dual carriageway with oil.

I imagine the OP got the same loud bang and a cloud of smoke followed by the instant stop.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

35 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

 

It makes a glorious mess when that happens, 

Hence Tracy’s ‘grenaded’. I like the term. 

(As long is it never happens to my engine)

[dmr]

The lovely old VW air cooled engines were notorious for this. Mine never did it but a friends did. As an air cooled they ran hot so with a bit of detonation would melt the piston, as a flat engine the rod then dropped slightly and the shoulder came right out through the side of the block.

 

I wonder what one would be like in a boat ?

 

................Dave

[Eeyore]

2 hours ago, dmr said:

The lovely old VW air cooled engines were notorious for this. Mine never did it but a friends did. As an air cooled they ran hot so with a bit of detonation would melt the piston, as a flat engine the rod then dropped slightly and the shoulder came right out through the side of the block.

 

I wonder what one would be like in a boat ?

 

................Dave

Closest I’ve seen in a Narrowboat 

 

[zenataomm]

Often referred to as "Throwing a leg out of bed"