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Well ill tell you know... if its still running you sure as heck havent thrown a rod... trust me... about a year before i built the 1914cc for donoald. I had to drive him to storage cuase i couldnt pay for a tow... he knocked real bad and even with all my, "its ok donoald, you can make it , i promise" talk ... he still decided to throw a rod.. once that happened the engine shut off and nothing but dead silence as i rolled into a parking lot in the rain and called my friend for a rope tow... upon ripping the motor apart... the cam was broken into 3 peices, the crankshaft ring of the rod was disintigrated... into many , many peices... and the crank was ground down about 10 mm... if thats possible lol. the piston barrels had to be broken up, as becuase the motor was so freakin hot and starved for oil... the pistons ceased in the barrels... heads were toast... but the case was actually salvagable... its sitting in my garage... bored for a 1776 , it was welded behind number three.. and it was checked all over for cracks... still a solid case... its amazing what kinda hell you can put these motors through... On another note... it was a gex motor from the 80's ... that may have been a slight part of the problem, but the motor had 60,000 miles on it when i ripped it from the 68 fasty i had "R.I.P." and even though it was a F.I. motor originally.... i could tell they had abused it, all its life... I got another 20,000 miles before it exploded... if it were now... i never would have run the motor, i would have rebuilt it.. but i was poor.. lol Trevor Cleveland Carson City , NV 69 Fasty "Donoald" 68 Square "Elsie" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~