Welcome to Club Hot Rod!  The premier site for everything to do with Hot Rod, Customs, Low Riders, Rat Rods, and more. 

  •  » Members from all over the US and the world!
  •  » Help from all over the world for your questions
  •  » Build logs for you and all members
  •  » Blogs
  •  » Image Gallery
  •  » Many thousands of members and hundreds of thousands of posts! 

YES! I want to register an account for free right now!  p.s.: For registered members this ad will NOT show

 

Thread: Casue for 1 melted piston?
          
   
   

Reply To Thread
Results 1 to 5 of 5

Hybrid View

  1. 04-20-2010 05:54 AM #1
    Weasel Diesel
    Weasel Diesel is offline CHR Member
    Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Location
    Chesterfield
    Posts
    146

    Seems to me that you are describing exactly what happened to this engine. Note the piston damage at 12 and 1 o'clock of the piston. ( Yes that is the rings you are looking at ). It can effect 1 cylinder and not all 8.

    det1.jpg

    This damage on this one was purely detonation damage. It can be caused by Timing, too low an octane fuel, wrong spark plug temperature range. A vacume advance not operating correctly can do this also.
    Last edited by Weasel Diesel; 04-20-2010 at 05:56 AM.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
Reply To Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts

Forum Rules

Links monetized by VigLink