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Might be an idea to patch it up, just to get it home. At the moment the vehicle is about a hundred miles from home, and I'm certainly not doing a hundred miles with a loose rod bolt, probably wouldn't even get as far
And I don't see why I should farm out a load of dosh to get it done by a proper shop near where it's standing (there's one about 3 miles away), if I can do it myself at home.
I've also thought about a stroker kit, but that isn't allowed here in Germany. Don't think anyone would ever notice, and I have already got some goodies in it, but the Germans are quite strikt when it gets to tuning engines yourself: everything has to have a number and a spec-sheet to prove your emissions won't get worse And emissions have to be checked every year.
I'm running on LPG anyway, firstly because of the price and second because of the environment. OK, I admit it, first is the important thing, but second is a scorer with girls
As some people always say: it's best to look at even the worst things with humor, so that's what I'm doing.
So long,
Max

Originally Posted by MadMax

I'm running on LPG anyway, firstly because of the price and second because of the environment. OK, I admit it, first is the important thing, but second is a scorer with girls
As some people always say: it's best to look at even the worst things with humor, so that's what I'm doing.
So long,
Max

So THAT"S why you drive a van !!!!!!!

You bet
There's other reasons, too: I use my van as a tour-bus for my band (which is the next scorer )
No, for real, I just like big cars, there are so many small sporty cars here in Germany, what with Japanese rubish everywhere. But a beaten old van laying rubber at stop lights is a sight you don't often get here. And it's good fun cruising around and things. But heck, you know why we drive V8s
But all this only counts for big cars with V8 engines which do actually MOVE
I don't like cars that don't MOVE. That about sums it up. So let's get this whale back on the road, that's what I say...

Right, now I've found something out: the source of vibration seems to have been a bent flexplate, the clanging sound seems to have been its loseness. Good thing, because I don't have to buy many new parts. Bad thing is, I only found it out, because I found absolutely nothing wrong with my engine internals, all crank and rod-bolts nice and tight. Spun on a balancing stand my FP showed a considerable bend to it, which it didn'T in the car, seems the TC was holding my FP straight. Now that's something you don't want. But as a lesson to everybody who's as dumb as me: a bend in a FP doesn't necesserily show up properly in the car...
At least I don't have to take my crank to the grinder's. But I will still get a new flexplate and I think I'll turn the old one into a barbeque-charcoal-holder. I've got an old sungear-shell lying around somewhere to use as a stand. Then I might as well hotrod my BBQ-skills for the summer
Thanks a lot for all your ideas and help,
Max