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Cloverleaf76

15th March 2012 17:34

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So once upon a time, many moons ago I lunched an engine.

Was at old Snetterton (winning, to make matters worse) came onto the Revett straight and something went pop.

Buellboy helped me swap it out

and it's sat at the back of my garage ever since.

Until now, as have recently smashed a sump and that is pretty much the only salvagable thing from this lump.

Took the head off to make it easier to harvest sump and found soemthing missing:

Wait is that the crank I spy?!

Ah well, at least it hasn't trashed the bore:

Or spread shrapnel throughout the rest of the engine:

Haven't actually taken the sump off yet: what do you think I'll find...?

buellboy View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	15th March 2012 17:38 Post #2 \| Print
1.7 16v Group: Veteran Posts: 2,462 Joined: 11th July 2008 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: London Member No.: 3,211 Driving: Alfa 75 Twinspark (Ronnie), Alfa 75 Twinspark (Shelly) , Alfa 75 Turbo (Donnie) From: London	jeeesus! --------------------

kirk46 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	15th March 2012 17:48 Post #3 \| Print
1.7 16v Group: Veteran Posts: 3,857 Joined: 11th March 2010 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: doncaster, south yorkshire Member No.: 4,885 Driving: 98 146 junior, 03 147 GTA From: doncaster	-------------------- R.I.P 146 :( QUOTE(groovylee @ 13th August 2011 08:41) (easy naan, the other type of helmet :lol:)

cesar86 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 01:10 Post #4 \| Print
1.6 8v Group: Regular Posts: 969 Joined: 3rd September 2010 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 08:48 Member No.: 5,465 Driving: Alfa Romeo 145 QV From: Brazil	No! That's not possible, is it? --------------------

Fin View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 01:27 Post #5 \| Print
1.6 8v Group: Regular Posts: 928 Joined: 25th March 2009 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: Up North Member No.: 4,027 Driving: Alfa 145 QV, Merc E300TD, Opel Omega GSi From: J28 off of the M1	I'd send that back to Alfa if I were you mate. Unfit for purpose and all that! I thought about this a while ago... There should be a 'Carnage Corner' for posting things like this that have failed in service spectacularly! Any takers/mods? -------------------- Keep left unless overtaking - Use mirrors and signals when changing lanes - Keep within the white lines - Don't tailgate Its not exactly f**king rocket science is it? If you cut a horse in half, then bang the two halves together, you get exactly the same noise as someone riding a coconut!

GialloEvo94 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 06:15 Post #6 \| Print
Forum Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 9,490 Joined: 11th June 2005 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: South Oxfordshire, UK Member No.: 954 Driving: Alfa 145 QV, Lancia Delta Integrale Evo, SEAT Leon Mk2 FR+ TDI DSG From: South Oxfordshire, UK	Good work Mr '76 QUOTE(Fin @ 16th March 2012 01:27) I thought about this a while ago... There should be a 'Carnage Corner' for posting things like this that have failed in service spectacularly! Any takers/mods? Let me know by PM if there are any other past threads you think should go in here too -------------------- Alfa 145 QV \| Lancia Delta Integrale Evo \| SEAT Leon Mk2 FR+ TDI DSG

Macca View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 13:12 Post #7 \| Print
1.6 16v Group: Veteran Posts: 1,101 Joined: 20th July 2010 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 11:48 From: Lincoln Member No.: 5,285 Driving: Alfa 145 Cloverleaf From: Lincoln	Jesus tittyfucking christ thats amazing! Holy st... tittyfucking isnt a banned word! But st is... phew! This post has been edited by Macca: 16th March 2012 13:13

kirk46 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 14:00 Post #8 \| Print
1.7 16v Group: Veteran Posts: 3,857 Joined: 11th March 2010 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: doncaster, south yorkshire Member No.: 4,885 Driving: 98 146 junior, 03 147 GTA From: doncaster	QUOTE(Macca @ 16th March 2012 13:12) Jesus tittyfucking christ thats amazing! Holy st... tittyfucking isnt a banned word! But st is... phew! i bet tiityfucking will be a ban word very soon tho -------------------- R.I.P 146 :( QUOTE(groovylee @ 13th August 2011 08:41) (easy naan, the other type of helmet :lol:)

Fin View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 14:34 Post #9 \| Print
1.6 8v Group: Regular Posts: 928 Joined: 25th March 2009 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: Up North Member No.: 4,027 Driving: Alfa 145 QV, Merc E300TD, Opel Omega GSi From: J28 off of the M1	QUOTE(Macca @ 16th March 2012 13:12) Holy st... tittyfucking isnt a banned word! Yeah... Dumbclusterf+ck, f£cknugget and &rsecandle manage to get through too, but I censoredidded these! This post has been edited by Fin: 16th March 2012 14:38 -------------------- Keep left unless overtaking - Use mirrors and signals when changing lanes - Keep within the white lines - Don't tailgate Its not exactly fking rocket science is it? If you cut a horse in half, then bang the two halves together, you get exactly the same noise as someone riding a coconut!

Cloverleaf76 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	16th March 2012 19:55 Post #10 \| Print
1.6 16v Group: Veteran Posts: 1,199 Joined: 29th February 2008 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 11:48 Member No.: 2,973 Driving: Alfa 145 Cloverleaf, Alfa 147 From: M25 J11	QUOTE(Fin @ 16th March 2012 01:27) There should be a 'Carnage Corner' for posting things like this that have failed in service spectacularly! And at the moment it's all mine, mine, mine! QUOTE Let me know by PM if there are any other past threads you think should go in here too Will give it some thought: at the risk of making this even more of a Cloverleaf 76 exclusive zone I think at least one of my others might make. Oh, the joys of things going dramatically wrong. Have had a looooong day on the road to Weymouth and back so no time to nip to Halfrauds for the T40 screwdriver thing to get the screws behind the flywheel. Mind you for some reason the engine is actually seized so solid I could probably windy gun the flywheel off without it moving

Cloverleaf76

18th March 2012 12:14

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1.6 16v

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Sshhh! Don't tell the wife 'cos am supposed to be preparing Sunday Lunch but just managed to sneak out while the potatos were doing to whip the sump off, and look what I found:

More shrapnel than a bus driver's back pocket...

Cos I'm working with the block upside down, everything's fallen back inside but this stuff is stuck in the oil pan

These are the biggest bits I've found so far: part of a ring and possibly a former shell bearing?

There's no sign at all of a bearing in the big end...

At 7,200 rpm am just counting my blessings none of it came out of the side of the block

Chris145 View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	2nd May 2012 12:29 Post #12 \| Print
1.6 8v Group: Regular Posts: 579 Joined: 16th December 2003 Local Time: 22nd January 2021 12:48 From: Chester Member No.: 59 Driving: GT 3.2 From: Chester	The owner of one 156 we bought off ebay a few years ago and rebuilt took it to the next level, whilst the piston looked the same as yours - pea gravel in the sump, this guy dropped a gear and carried on... Que hole in the block and this; This post has been edited by Chris145: 2nd May 2012 12:30 -------------------- I'm not crazy because I take the right pills everyday.

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