i have a 412 manual tranny!

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Bill K.
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Re: i have a 412 manual tranny!

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vwfye wrote:anyone looking for one of these? came out of a car that lost an engine.
here's what the engine looks like. amazing...
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it turns freely, how could it do this? completely exploded...
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You mean...the crank turns freely. My bet is that a piston siezed...ad teh connecting rod snapped throwing chunks through teh case but not destroying the crank and journals. Ray
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ray is probably right since it lost oil pressure before it went boom... the PO said that his son kept driving after the light came on. i wonder how far he drove :?:
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You're right, it was a rod grenade. Looks like the nuts stripped. #2 is bent bad too. Interesting tear-down... Nasty oil - what was left of it anyway.
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