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Old 04-07-2011, 01:09 AM
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Default Widows blown engine....diagnosed!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y9Doj60W4

Sean pulled the engine from the Widow today and figured out why it did the above video.....

to make things interesting....watch the video and state what you think the failure was....
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Old 04-07-2011, 01:21 AM
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Cracked cylinder liner
Blown headgasket
or threw a rod out the side.
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Big cloud of oil smoke judging by the way it wafts through the camera car- Dropped a valve and filled one cylinder with oil?
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Someone over filled the crankcase?
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Old 04-07-2011, 01:49 AM
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good answers so far..... 1 is VERY close, the others...not close at all...
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Oil into the exhaust. Probably via headgasket to cylinder.
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oh for the love of tom and jerry , WTF happened???
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inhaled oil through the intake , broke the rings with oil driven detination .
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I hear Greg Brown has a fix for this...
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Failed fetzer valve... Seen it a million times.
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Isn't this engine brand new?

AO,

You made me look up Feltzer Valve.
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Probably Mobil 1. Should have been using Amsoil :-)
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Originally Posted by daveo90s4
Probably Mobil 1. Should have been using Amsoil :-)
AWWWWWW SNAP!
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Its all ball bearings.
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Should have used Prestone antifreeze... no make that Quaker State.
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