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The Classic Marque

All breaks are a little different. A few years ago, a woman I know broke the crankshaft in her TC and kept driving on it for a while before deciding to call for advice on a "rattling noise". I went to where she pulled over and started the engine. The whole car rocked back and forth with violent knocking sounds. It was broken at the rear web. I knew another guy who broke his and didn't even know it...

Jud,
Its 55 years since I broke a crankshaft, but I am sure if you put the car in gear and rock it, and have someone watch the front pulley, you will see if there is a disconnection. You may also hear a noise.
Mine would not run, and I had to be towed 100miles back home.

Bernie

I have been using this stuff. Holts cataloy knifing stopper. Slow to harden but works well and sands off nicely. 100g tube so you would have enough, but not too much!

I hope I never need to know the answer to this but, is there a way to tell without taking the motor apart?

Jud

All the air dried stoppers and fillers will shrink, so you need a few coats. It's annoying that they usually come in enormous tubes or tins such as in Jeremy's photo. Holts knifing putty comes in a much smaller tube but isn't very good - too stiff and poor adhesion. I still use it though, just in thin layers. Crucial of course to clean out pits and chips and get any suggestion of polish out. For a...

Ha ha - I've just rushed out to the garage to look at my engine number, and halfway there remembered that Derrington put in a Morris Minor engine in 1980.

Thank you for these suggestions.
I expect I'm exaggerating when I say 1cc. It's for a number of areas where we've knocked paint off during our recent ten days away. We jumped in and out a lot, and obviously managed to knock the doors out of fit. So the flange of the A-post got scraped by the door shutting, and the other door went the opposite way - abrasive contact between the rear end of the...

Whale meat again
Under the sun

https://youtu.be/WZWtR-zPRQo?si=gzSKW71pRu6ibLg-

AI had a shot a disc bolt torque too.

You still trust it?

Not in my book for the last 50 years.

All it does is trawl for the most commonly held opinions. It shows how commonly people are wrong, and how crap AI still is.

And if it really ever does gain control, FUBAR won't even begin to describe it. 🤣
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I hate to be a bearer off bad news, but it could be a broken crankshaft.