What a load of bollocks!!Euan's (sp?) car packs up, and has a bent spark plug......Right, so its dropped a valve then, and the engine's scrap. Seems pretty simple.But not to Jock of course, he thinks the camshaft's broke where the fuck does he get that theory from!Some other 'expert' recons its the cambelt. Like yeah, the cambelt breaking does tend to make the pistons hit the spark plug don't it mate! And if they are as good mechanics as they make out, they would be able to tell from the sound of the engine turning over that the belt was broken.And the best theory of all, its a broken piston ring, so we need to remove the sump to find the bits........ How the fuck is a broken piston ring going to get past the piston, into the sump, or the combustion chamber??????????? The ring could be broken into 20 pieces, it would still stay in the groove.So they spent ages pissing about with this engine, till finally they remove the head, and guess what, broken valve TING!!!!!Three 'mechanics', spend all day to decide that an engines scrap, you could have bought a new engine with the labour costs!!Then the 'expert' mechanics go to the scrap yard, spend all morning pulling a lump.......... out of the wrong bloody car. FFS

Had broken rings on a Triumph engine a few years back - one of the pieces carved a hole up the side of the piston and ended up sitting on top of it!

Err, I suggest you re-read your post:You said:"car packs up, and has a bent spark plug...Jock...thinks thecamshaft's broke where the f*ck does he get that theory from!"You also said:"Some other 'expert' recons its the cambelt. Like yeah, the cambeltbreaking does tend to make the pistons hit the spark plug don't itmate!"sponix

Anyone been watching 'The Garage' (discovery channel)

Jan 31, 2006 27 Replies

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Conor 20 years ago

Come on then fuckface, why considering it was in the late 80's?

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Conor 20 years ago

Depends on the speed.

It's called the conversation moving on. You're obviously too stupid to notice.

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Adrian 20 years ago

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Ah, so not just "YTS spannermonkey" experience, but "massively out of date YTS spannermonkey" experience.

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Ian Dalziel 20 years ago

It's called move the conversation on sharply when you realise you've been talking bollocks, you mean.

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Sponix 20 years ago

I had a piston ring go on a mini once. It broke the edge off the piston before disappearing down the exhaust!

sponix

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Sponix 20 years ago

Err, I suggest you re-read your post:

You said:

"car packs up, and has a bent spark plug...Jock...th "Some other 'expert' recons its the cambelt. Like yeah, the cambelt breaking does tend to make the pistons hit the spark plug don't it mate!"

sponix

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Sponix 20 years ago

If the camshaft broke, the valve could get pushed further into the bore than it is designed to go. It then gets hit by the piston which bends the valve then hits the plug.

sponix

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SimonJ 20 years ago

Erm yes, and in which of those sentences did I say or imply that a cambelt/camshaft breakage would/could not bend a valve?

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