On Mar 19, 3:14*pm, jim "sjedgingN0Sp"@m@mwt,net wrote:
Bob Engelhardt wrote:

There were 2 heads at the dump, each for 2 cylinders - from a a v4
engine I'd guess. *Each of the heads had 1 cylinder badly "burned", as
shown. *Anybody know what happened?

Looks like a valve broke off and beat the **** out of everything
rattling around inside the cylinder. Looks like they kept it
running as long as the could after it started banging and clanking.





Just curious,
Bob

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Concur, definitely a busted valve. Saw some like that when picking
over VW heads in a boneyard. Some still had the valve stem stuck in
the guide. One question is why two cylinders would drop valves at the
same time. Or maybe the guy just turned up the radio when the first
one went and only stopped when the thing refused to run with only two
cylinders. What make?

Stan