On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:58:45 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On 14 Jun 2004 13:30:41 -0700, jim rozen
calmly ranted:

In article , Ted Edwards says...

Actually, I new Dr. Gunn. He was a prof in the Solid State Physics
group at University of British Columbia. It was told around the Physics
department that on a trip to San Fransisco in his Jag, a piston
colapsed. He pulled over to the side of the road, got out the tool kit
and removed the piston and rod from that cylinder. He then carried on
on seven to 'Frisco where he could get a replacement piston.

Uh, Ted. How did he get the oil pressure to stay up without a
rod in place (to stop the gaping oil holes in the crank)?

I actually saw a guy do it in our lot back in 1969. A 235 Chevy 6 in a
'55 Bel_Air from Newfoundland pulled into the station, knocking like a
son-of-a-gun. The young fellow bought a pan gasket and a rad hose
clamp and borrowed a couple of wrenches. He crawled under the car with
one set of wheels on the curb, dropped the pan, unbolted the offending
con-rod, and jammed the piston up in the cyl with a block of wood. He
then took off his belt, cut off the end, and wrapped it around the
crankpin, clamping it with the rad hose clamp.
He bolted the pan back on, filled it up with oil, and left Elmira
Ontario for Come-By Chance or Joe Bat's Arm on the Granite Planet.

So it CAN be done.

That sounds like an old story, back when you could see the engine
as a separate entity from the underbonnet.


Ian Gunn worked at IBM research for some time.
Apparently he had quite an attraction to earth
moving equipment (backhoes) as well.

Who doesn't? arr arr arr