[rustynutz]

someone missed a bolt somewhere.......

Had this on my little Holden Barina. Someone had left out a bolt holding down the camshaft. I only happened to pick this up as I decided to check valve clearances at around the 40,000 - 50,000 kilometre mark.
So much for clearances having been checked while it was being serviced while under the 20,000k warranty! 

I whacked in a bolt I happened to have laying around and never ever had an issue. The engine did 420,000 trouble free k's up until I disposed of it so obviously there was no ill effects.... 

[eye30]

then mention of Boddingtons (I believe an English beer) is curious.

Boddingtons in the context of his reply to Shambles.

Boddingtons was known as the --- The Cream of Manchester ---  where Shambles hails from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boddingtons

[asathorny]

Bodingtons....  Bottom of my street turn left go bout 500 years and find the waste land which used to be 'Bodingtons' now brewed in a foreign land me thinks £2 a day to park your car there now...  Strangely I still get the scent of roasting hops drifting up across Strangeways Park, or is it just a reminiscence of time past <sniff sniff>

[2i30s]

a main bearing seizing up will cause your engine to throw a conrod out the side of the block.  or as us Aussies say,throw a leg out of bed. 

[Surferdude]

a main bearing seizing up will cause your engine to throw a conrod out the side of the block.  or as us Aussies say,throw a leg out of bed. 

Or as racing driver John French once said, of the retirement of his Falcon from a race.
The car's got electrical trouble. A conrod came through the side of the block and damaged the alternator".

[2i30s]

a main bearing seizing up will cause your engine to throw a conrod out the side of the block.  or as us Aussies say,throw a leg out of bed. 

Or as racing driver John French once said, of the retirement of his Falcon from a race.
The car's got electrical trouble. A conrod came through the side of the block and damaged the alternator".

[not2oldru]

I got my car back from the dealer two days ago.They told me the main bearing area looked scuffed as though a lack of oil but there was plenty of oil in the engine.So I now have a brand new engine and starter motor.Hope there are no more problems,

[Phil №❶]

I guess it's the law of probability. Make enough engines and sooner or later someone will make a mistake.

Let's hope that's the end of the matter. 

[Dazzler]

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