| Re: [GMCnet] Jim Kanomata's Caddy Motor clone [message #70709 is a reply to message #70699] |
Wed, 13 January 2010 08:08   |
Steven Ferguson
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Gary,
I also thought that but Jim says the motor is around 8:1. That is a
lot of clearance so I'm thinking he'll also need a new crank and
perhaps a new set of rods. None the less, it will be interesting to
read the post mortem.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Kosier <gkosier@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Hmmmmmm.....
>
> To jam the electrodes on four sparkies, the piston have to come
> up higher
> than normal. This usually means the bottom half of the rod
> bearing is
> sharing space with the top half. This is not good. Possibly a
> sudden,
> dramatic loss of oil pressure. Really bad.
>
> Gary Kosier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Kanomata" <jimkanomata@gmail.com>
> To: <gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Jim Kanomata's Caddy Motor clone
>
>
>> Grace has travel bags in the coach so if things go wrong, we
>> move the
>> personal item in her van and leave the coach.
>> Last time we could not locate the mile marker so she pushed the
>> cach
>> till we came on one then told the tow company where we were.
>> I'm sure she would rather travel with Teri and you.
>> I could not get myself to take the engine appart to see what I
>> did to
>> it. All I did was pull the sparkplugs and see that 4 of them
>> were
>> jamed shut.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dan Gregg
>> <gregg_dan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim, what is the status of your "ride"? Teri needs to know so
>>> she can make plans to pick up Grace if the coach is not done,
>>> for Montgomery, or she does not trust it with you behind the
>>> wheel.
>>> Dan
>>> --
>>> Dan & Teri Gregg
>>>
>>> danandteri.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Jim Kanomata
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Steve Ferguson
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