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- From: andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang)
- Subject: Volvo main bearings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160312.5216@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Keywords: fi fuel injection backpressure exhaust
- Sender: andyh@cs.brandeis.edu
- Organization: Brandeis University
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:03:12 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- Anybody want to guess how long a Volvo 4cyl will last with blown
- mains?
-
- My father drove it without oil for roughly 10mis until it got too hot
- to run (perhaps seized, perhaps not, I wasn't there).
-
- The compression is still fine (amazing!) but there's a good bit of rod
- or bearing knock.
-
- So, how many miles before a piston tries to impregnate an intake
- valve?
-
- Its a `76 with 150Kmi, in good shape except for this incident.
-
- (The engine mount broke and the engine fell down denting the oil
- filter against the frame. A few miles of running caused the filter to
- leak. So when the oil light went on my father threw in two quarts and
- forgot about it. Next day, off he goes. So what if the oil light
- comes on again. "I just put in two quarts, its fine." Twenty miles
- later, clakety, clakety, clok, clok, URK!)
-
- The person who guesses closest to the mileage when catastrophic damage
- occurs will receive the dented oil filter as a trophy.
-
- -andy
-