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Swamp Dog and Cletus are down
cletus:
We finally got time to pull our Ford 300 six out to see whats wrong with it.
It looks like something got up into the combustion chamber and hammered up the piston and head. We found a couple of pieces of steel that look like ring material but at this time do not know how the ring could have come up past the top edge of the piston. The good news is that the cylinder walls look good. Since there is only 88 hours on this engine since it had a complete rebuild we will install 1 new piston and a new head. We have often had cooling issued on a long run bucking deep snow and yes we have got it hot a few times.Ted and Bob suggested a thicker rad and a better fan.
Ray & Paul
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the old trucker:
How was the plug & the valves ?? Anything chipped off ? I'm curious... OT.
the old trucker:
I was talking to my friend today that has helped me with my bomber in the past. I told him about your engine problem. He had snow blower engines that went the same way. He discovered that a screw had let go in the carb & went down through the intake valve.
OT....
Swamp Dawg:
We couldn't see anything missing from the valves or seats. Its a real puzzler what got in there, I picked up metal off the face of the piston with a magnet, very similar to a piece of ring.
the old trucker:
My friend said last night when he saw the pics that he thinks it's water. OT.
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