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71340Duster said:
Neighbor down the road had a motor put into a truck, local diesel mechanic purchased a 5 year 50,000 mile engine from east coast. Neighbor drives it and detects a tick or mild knock, not sure. Anyway, engine gets scoped and there's a freaking missing piston??? Connecting rod is there, not sure about the pin, but no jug??? Anyone want to speculate if that piston could have never been installed, cause that's what it looked like??? Weird.
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No way. Piston assembled to con rod, then installed into block. Depending on engine, that rod would have been flailing and punching holes.
 
i ALWAYS WONDERED IF YOUR CAR IS TAKEN APART AT THE BORDER AND NOTHING IS FOUND ARE THEY RESPONSIBLE TO PUT IT BACK TOGETHER?
 
Sio I am in the hardware store yesterday Guy sees the R/t, Start talking about it, knew what it was. Funny has a 72 340 duster. Told him to join and stop in. Seemed like a good guy. That truck gets a lot of interest here. Think that is the fourth time I talked to people about it. Had a few decent offrs also on it. Keeping it always wanted one never thought I would find one I could afford.
 
71340Duster said:
Neighbor down the road had a motor put into a truck, local diesel mechanic purchased a 5 year 50,000 mile engine from east coast. Neighbor drives it and detects a tick or mild knock, not sure. Anyway, engine gets scoped and there's a freaking missing piston??? Connecting rod is there, not sure about the pin, but no jug??? Anyone want to speculate if that piston could have never been installed, cause that's what it looked like??? Weird.
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I have seen many where circlips were missing during assembly. Catastrophic failure. This was a reman/rebuilt/0 mile engine? Or just an engine that someone offers a warranty with? Did he ask for variable displacement specifically? Like said, a rod/piston assembly goes in together and bolted to the crankshaft. I can't picture how it could be forgotten. Now, upon disassembly, they find broken piston in the oil pan - and many other places, that is more likely. There will be severe gouge marks from the rod hitting the cylinder walls.
 
Morning coffee drinkers, starting my day in Salina UT. Should be home tonight. Heading out for some coffee and breakfast. All they had here was the little plastic cup things.
 
jaws said:
Morning coffee drinkers, starting my day in Salina UT. Should be home tonight. Heading out for some coffee and breakfast. All they had here was the little plastic cup things.
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How did your car search go Dave? Ahh a beauty. 32 Desoto!
 
So we are currently in the midst of a warming trend, the warm air created a neat looking fog this morning. Keep in mind up here a warming trend brought temp up to 3 degrees F. This morning.

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toolmanmike said:
Good thing you will be moving south! (and looking forward to it I bet)
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Our court date is tomorrow and we are very excited to get it behind us. Jodi stayed down there after Holidays to attend with lawyer. If that dang Chris would hurry up and pass the bar exam we could have used him. Likely be first time somebody ever took a fire extinguisher to court with them tho! Hah!
 
Sublime one said:
Our court date is tomorrow and we are very excited to get it behind us. Jodi stayed down there after Holidays to attend with lawyer. If that dang Chris would hurry up and pass the bar exam we could have used him. Likely be first time somebody ever took a fire extinguisher to court with them tho! Hah!
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