Get a load a this!(slant 6 with a hole)
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HemiSSDart
Dartus Interuptus
In 1987 I blew up my 68 Barracuda 318 on I-294 west of Chicago. I was stranded in the inside median and had to run across the highway, run down an off ramp, and find a pay phone. (most people on this site probably have no idea what those are) Anyway, AAA would not tow off the tollway and said if I could get my car down the off ramp onto a surface street they would tow me. I ran back to my car trying to figure out what to do. I decided to hit the key and the engine fired! I limped it off the highway and got towed home. The next day I dug into the engine and there were two rods, two pistons, and two chunks of the block missing! It ran pretty well for a six cylinder...
I blew a 318 once, and it still started the next day, missing one rod, and a big hole in the block.
It did vibrate pretty good.
It did vibrate pretty good.
I threw 2 rods in a 69 340 Dart street racing, hole in block and the pan ripped open. Drove it home like 8 miles..
I had a slant six that threw number 6 rod out of the block and broke the starter off. Put a old used starter on it and stuffed a rag in the hole and drove it for 6 months. No choice back then, I didn't have any money. I was so broke, I couldn't afford to pay attention!
I had a 72 dart with a slant. I had a fresh engine waiting to go in so I drained the oil and run her back and forth to school for a whole week. It was about 10 miles one way. By the end of the week it was knocking like crazy but it never seized and still ran good. I decided not to temp fate anymore so I swapped it out that weekend. Yeah, they are tough engines.
Looks like its time to have a V8
When i was about 18 I was working in a corner service station, did oil changes and tire repairs mostly in those days. One Saturday morning a woman came in with a Duster, /6 car, and asked if I had time to change the oil for her. Drove the car in, oil light was on steady, had the typical /6 rattle, set it up on the hoist and removed the drain plug. Not a damn drop of oil came out! Pulled the filter, a small amount of oil remained in it, and it was quite heavy. I went to the waiting area and told her that there was no oil in her engine. Her reply? "Oh, I thought it was due for an oil change!" I went back into the shop shaking my head at the thought of this engine running without oil, put a new filter on, gave it a thorough grease job, let it down and filled the crankcase with fresh oil. Touched the key and it fired right up, oil light was now off and it ran just fine. The woman paid for the service, I backed her car out and she drove off. Damndest thing I had seen at that point in my life, I still wonder how much longer that car ran, never saw the woman or the car again.
1973 or so Dart or Valiant, can't remember. Doesn't matter. Small town near here, having their yearly celebration. Part of the fun was blow up a car. That thing had a slant, of course. They knocked the filter off. Didn't quit running. Cut the hoses. Finally got hot and quit. Cooled off, somebody keyed it and it fired immediately. Local guy drove it for three years after. Retired it to the local yard, still running.
In the 90's I worked for a chebby dealer and we had Geo, the guy next to me had a Geo Metro with a motor problem and he replaced the short block. The customer was pissed and wanted a long block but Geo wouldn't do it. A week later it came back with a coolant leak and they gave it to me, I said leave it for the guy that put in the motor it's a come back. He wasn't there so I got it, I went out and opened the hood and there was a big hole in the block, piston and rod MIA. Coolant leak and oil leak. I refused to fix it and when he came back the next day he got it to fix, customer got his wish, a new long block. I wonder what it took to blow it apart.
rustycowll69
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back in late 80''s I went to a small mopar car meet in Bow-Edison, WA. Some guys from Canada had driven down in some early a-body (I think) with a slant 6. They had blown a hole in the left side of the block, near the front of the starter, much bigger than my fist. They got a piece of clear visqueen and siliconed it to the side of the block to hold the oil in and drove it back home. I heard they made it back ok. That's pretty crazy.
as a kid (when these cars where more or less disposable) we kicked out a rod on my 225 dart, came out right thru the side/top of the block. I remember being able to see inside the case, but it still started & ran, if not for the horrible sounds of crap banging all over inside...
So, with the engine being toast, we decided to have a lil fun before we yanked it and wanted to see if we could get it to fully detonate into peices in dramatic fashion that only a 16yr old can imagine.
Started up, put several cinder blocks on the accelerator pedal and let it rip in park in my moms driveway. dang car ran wide open full throttle for over 3 hrs before it finally siezed up from lack of oil, having spit what was left of its oil out early on in the process.
no detonation, just a rather hot, hissing, smoking mess... which my mother was not too happy about. ;)
So, with the engine being toast, we decided to have a lil fun before we yanked it and wanted to see if we could get it to fully detonate into peices in dramatic fashion that only a 16yr old can imagine.
Started up, put several cinder blocks on the accelerator pedal and let it rip in park in my moms driveway. dang car ran wide open full throttle for over 3 hrs before it finally siezed up from lack of oil, having spit what was left of its oil out early on in the process.
no detonation, just a rather hot, hissing, smoking mess... which my mother was not too happy about. ;)
I'll tell my story too. Got a 67 Dart Slant 6 for free from a lady because of no oil pressure.It had oil in it.Drove it home from her house with the oil light blaring.Not caring,I changed the filter, put 8 quarts of oil in it and figured it would splash around enough to oil things.Drove it for 2 more weeks before pulling the Valve cover and oil pan.The pickup and pan was pure sludge.Cleaned it all up and put it back together.Traded it in about a year later for a 70 340 Duster.
scott.bracken
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In my 70 Duster we were driving it around for 2 weeks without oil, I did not know this, but the old slant burnt 5 quarts of oil. This happened last summer, still got the same engine in the car. Can not kill the damn thing!
Yours burns more oil than it does gas boy
As we used to say "fill the oil and check the gas!"
Lost a small fortune trying to bet on when a /6 would die in those engine blow-up events at small town car shows. A good friend of mine used to put on a show every summer, typically chose something with a slant for the engine grenade contest, always amazed at how long they would run without oil or coolant. Last couple of years he used K cars, the 2.2's went pretty well without oil too, but not like a slant.
When the original 318 in my green '70 decided to check out, I was about 25 miles from home, most of those miles were on the highway, and she started knocking pretty bad, I was both pissed off and worried, it was about 10 degrees and snowing, but it got me home. Still ran after, though I had another vehicle so I didn't need to rely on it, but it did make it across town to my buddy's shop when I got a new motor for it.
moparmat2000
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Hey N.J. what exit ?
I used to be 154 off the G.S.P. myself. Wow that was 25 years ago.
PLEASE shoot video horizontally! The vertical format looks really bad!
loganscuda
This/These
So your the guy with rag in the block. I heard that story from a member in Austin Tx.
Slantsix64
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Runs pretty good.....
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Oogliboogli
This happened to a member here.. he called me on the way back from Vegas, in Barstow I think, I told him get a rag and a piece of cardboard with the cardboard over the hole and rags jammed between the starter and block. He made it back to temecula, stopping to put oil in it many times...like every 50 miles. Great motors for hanging in there.
loganscuda
This/These
Was the rag his T-shirt
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