Candy In Motor!
01-15-12, 07:31 PM
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Candy In Motor!
Story:
So I recently picked up an engine out a friends car. While removing his header about 10 hard mints fell out of the exhaust. The motor had not been run in a couple weeks so the placement of these was fairly recent. Anyways after pulling the motor I look into the exhaust ports to see more mints pilled up enough to clog the hole port. After removing those I took a flashlight and looked throught the ports into the housings. Each housing had about two or three more mints in them. At the time my bright idea was to turn over the motor and grab them as the rotor pushed them towards the ports. But of course the rotors dont sit on a straight shaft but a journal. This caused them to smash and spreadall over the faces of the rotor littering the housings with thousands of tiny chunks of mints. I believe I had managed to remove all of it from the faces of the rotor and vaccum some of it out, but am stuck with a fraction of the tiny pieces still scattered in the housings. I have used ATF and a bunch of wd40 to try and get it out of there.
Question:
Is all of this really worth it and no matter how much I can get out, when it runs the few bits will score the housings? The motors got 30k on it and I plan on pouring gasoline in it tommorow as my last effort to get this stuff out. The mints are pretty hard until smashed then it turns to gum but the bits of the shell that are left essentially feel like sand
So I recently picked up an engine out a friends car. While removing his header about 10 hard mints fell out of the exhaust. The motor had not been run in a couple weeks so the placement of these was fairly recent. Anyways after pulling the motor I look into the exhaust ports to see more mints pilled up enough to clog the hole port. After removing those I took a flashlight and looked throught the ports into the housings. Each housing had about two or three more mints in them. At the time my bright idea was to turn over the motor and grab them as the rotor pushed them towards the ports. But of course the rotors dont sit on a straight shaft but a journal. This caused them to smash and spreadall over the faces of the rotor littering the housings with thousands of tiny chunks of mints. I believe I had managed to remove all of it from the faces of the rotor and vaccum some of it out, but am stuck with a fraction of the tiny pieces still scattered in the housings. I have used ATF and a bunch of wd40 to try and get it out of there.
Question:
Is all of this really worth it and no matter how much I can get out, when it runs the few bits will score the housings? The motors got 30k on it and I plan on pouring gasoline in it tommorow as my last effort to get this stuff out. The mints are pretty hard until smashed then it turns to gum but the bits of the shell that are left essentially feel like sand
Last edited by stuwk1; 01-15-12 at 07:36 PM.
01-15-12, 07:55 PM
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get as much out as you can, don't worry about the rest.
the engine will eject them with about a minute of cranking. you may have to clean off the plugs a few times though.
will mints harm the engine? i'd hope not. a few redline runs will burn off anything that remained.
the engine will eject them with about a minute of cranking. you may have to clean off the plugs a few times though.
will mints harm the engine? i'd hope not. a few redline runs will burn off anything that remained.
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01-15-12, 08:20 PM
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I guess a small rodent carried it up a big straight piped 3 inch exhaust to header.... and was storing it for the winter. but thanks guys I needed a laugh
01-16-12, 12:17 AM
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idea!
STEP 1: put shitty spark plugs in
STEP 2: push a couple mints onto each face of each rotor
STEP 3: FUEL WITH DIET COKE!!!
ok that was lame but all jokes aside it happened to me with dog food... I just turned it by hand like you did. As for whats left have you tried carb cleaner or brake cleaner... or would that be to dry.
STEP 1: put shitty spark plugs in
STEP 2: push a couple mints onto each face of each rotor
STEP 3: FUEL WITH DIET COKE!!!
ok that was lame but all jokes aside it happened to me with dog food... I just turned it by hand like you did. As for whats left have you tried carb cleaner or brake cleaner... or would that be to dry.
01-16-12, 02:23 AM
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LOL
I was going to post the first comment on this, but I wanted to be informative. Now that there are so many hilarious comments, that I totally expected. I just wanted to ask... How the **** and why the **** would a rodent do this? Seriously...?
(Funny diagnosis question...) Did your friend have any pissed off ex girlfriends??
I was going to post the first comment on this, but I wanted to be informative. Now that there are so many hilarious comments, that I totally expected. I just wanted to ask... How the **** and why the **** would a rodent do this? Seriously...?
(Funny diagnosis question...) Did your friend have any pissed off ex girlfriends??
01-16-12, 03:37 AM
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Fill the engine with something thall will dissolve the sugar. Let it sit for a while. It should blow out the delicious delicious candy without doing any damage.
01-16-12, 08:31 AM
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LOL
I was going to post the first comment on this, but I wanted to be informative. Now that there are so many hilarious comments, that I totally expected. I just wanted to ask... How the **** and why the **** would a rodent do this? Seriously...?
(Funny diagnosis question...) Did your friend have any pissed off ex girlfriends??
I was going to post the first comment on this, but I wanted to be informative. Now that there are so many hilarious comments, that I totally expected. I just wanted to ask... How the **** and why the **** would a rodent do this? Seriously...?
(Funny diagnosis question...) Did your friend have any pissed off ex girlfriends??
