• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Friend said his car made a light “thud” noise and quit working.

    The piston that’s supposed to be on the right is no longer there, it was in a million pieces down in the oil pan.

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        2 months ago

        Knowing him, if it didn’t quit working entirely he probably would have done just that. A few months later he blew the wheel bearing on his truck and just kept driving it. I had gone over for coffee when he casually mentioned his truck was making noise when he drove so I checked and it was already grinding down on the brake caliper and two tie rods were completely toast. The thing must have steered like a shopping cart, but somehow he didn’t think anything of it.

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        2 months ago

        Ignore all the noises and idiot lights until it stops moving, then wonder what could have possibly gone wrong.

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        2 months ago

        I had a sudden hole in a piston one time, no warning just a massive amount of smoke coming from the blown out breather hose under the hood. I slapped a used piston and new injectors into it and it’s still going along.