JGizmo
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Is it safe to run/drive with the block broken beneath the starter?
Safe to run and drive?
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Ironracer
Gearhead
Hmm, outta my range... I'd run it, after bolting up a starter and trying to jam/ jiggle/ wiggle it around... hey, that may make a neat song....
Lord Sparky
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To be honest, none of these 50 year old cars are safe to drive. Come to think of it, they weren’t very safe when new.
mopar head
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Not a slant guy but what did that ear bolt to?
JGizmo
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Sounds good hahaha
JGizmo
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It bolted to the bell housing
Ironracer
Gearhead
Do you still have the broken part?
JGizmo
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I don't own the engine yet, but I've got an old blown up engine with the part still attached
Ironracer
Gearhead
Have Ya driven in Tampa Bay area lately? It AINT safe to drive anywhere, in anything, short of a Sherman...
mopar head
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Well it looks like a steel bracket that also goes to the bell? if so, I`d run it and just keep an eye on it.
Ironracer
Gearhead
JGizmo
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Ironracer
Gearhead
I'd Mainly fear the bell being comprised.. I had one flopping in the early 90s. Used a police baton, wedged off the headers to fire it via silly-noid
I’d run it like I stole it.
It'll be fine. That's just the last block to bellhousing attachment point on that side. You've got the steel bracket from the block to the bellhousing, so it's not like it can go anywhere. I wouldn't sweat it.
A guy I used to work with was a BMW mechanic. He told me he broke off a belhousing ear from a transmission, the service manager told him to just bolt the trans up and send it on. Not hard to believe but really disgraceful.
I personally would not use it unless it was free or I had no other choice.
I personally would not use it unless it was free or I had no other choice.
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my68barracuda
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Agree, should be fine, you have the steel reinforcement bracket right below the broken section as Rusty said.
I just would not want to do any heavy duty trailer pulling or drag race burn outs where the engine gets torqued around.
I just would not want to do any heavy duty trailer pulling or drag race burn outs where the engine gets torqued around.
Ironracer
Gearhead
That's Definitely a crap way to run a Business, Much LESS an auto shop for, I'm thinking, a Higher End Stealership! Mist have been a warranty... what other kinda trash did they send out. That said, it's a Mopar, Dude! They are Ram Tough!
My jaw hit the floor when he told me the story. Service managers opinion... There were 5 other bolts holding it together. And yes at a BMW dealership.
Anything with more than 3 bolts on anything, is just wasted bolts!!!
Or like a teacher told me one day.. anything over a C is just wasted effort!!
Or like a teacher told me one day.. anything over a C is just wasted effort!!
Smart car???
3 lugs???
3 lugs???
Ironracer
Gearhead
Scumbags.... all day long
Back in the mid-'70s I was a service writer for a Porsche dealer in Texas. I'm a 19 year old kid driving Turbo Carreras, 914-6s, and 911S was a common as a ham sandwich. Driving those cars on the afternoon - empty Texas interstate highways was a dream come true!
I was driving a customer's 911 Targa top that had come out of the alignment shop. I was accelerating through 90 looking for 110 on my favorite second story cloverleaf when the hood opened up! Hood hinges tore through the body to the windshield. Hood bent over the top of the windshield and broke out the Targa top. Glass in my lap, wind blowing everywhere and I can't see squat out what used to be the windshield.
Limped the car back to the dealership and the owner is dressing me down, telling me where I'm going to be after he is done with me. The owner of the 911 shows up and tells the owner of the dealership he doesn't want anyone in service driving his cars but me! The guy thinks I save his life cause he drives like a mad man and thinks he would of had the big one if he was behind the wheel.
Come to find out, before the front end alignment, the body shop had rebuilt the front end. They billed for a new front hood safety latch and actually hammered out and reused the old one.
Man, those were fun times!
Ironracer
Gearhead
Man, what a cool deal! I would have wanted Ya as my Personal Mechanic! Lol. Now, about the time I put a hot small block in a old Plymouth, that was supposed to be " primed" and ready for paint. Stabbed Her, doing 35, car jumped to 50 or so, Then, hood popped up, folded the hinges, and hood skin and Frame! busted the front glass, and generally sucked ***. . That's what happens when Ya trust hourly guys, working for the man. No offense to hourly guys that have Pride and Stand up to the Boss.Back in the mid-'70s I was a service writer for a Porsche dealer in Texas. I'm a 19 year old kid driving Turbo Carreras, 914-6s, and 911S was a common as a ham sandwich. Driving those cars on the afternoon - empty Texas interstate highways was a dream come true!
I was driving a customer's 911 Targa top that had come out of the alignment shop. I was accelerating through 90 looking for 110 on my favorite second story cloverleaf when the hood opened up! Hood hinges tore through the body to the windshield. Hood bent over the top of the windshield and broke out the Targa top. Glass in my lap, wind blowing everywhere and I can't see squat out what used to be the windshield.
Limped the car back to the dealership and the owner is dressing me down, telling me where I'm going to be after he is done with me. The owner of the 911 shows up and tells the owner of the dealership he doesn't want anyone in service driving his cars but me! The guy thinks I save his life cause he drives like a mad man and thinks he would of had the big one if he was behind the wheel.
Come to find out, before the front end alignment, the body shop had rebuilt the front end. They billed for a new front hood safety latch and actually hammered out and reused the old one.
Man, those were fun times!
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