Re: Blown Camry Engine - need suggestions

In article <48e8e7e4$0$5252$9a6e19ea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Romain <romainm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jim wrote:

Mike Romain wrote:
jim wrote:
Don Bruder wrote:
In article <1223160149_3404@xxxxx>, jim <"sjedgingN0sp"@m@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Mike Romain wrote:

Heh, I have seen that done more than once... Have had more than one
come driving to my place wanting an opinion on the big hole too. Have
even seen liquid aluminum used, with success mind you, on more than
one
hole too....
Heh certainly! That would have made a so much better story. Instead of
driving
it to the junk yard - he could have driven it home and rebuilt the half
of
the
engine that was missing with liquid aluminum. And could have said the
repair
has
held up for 200k miles so far. Yup nobody would have doubted that one.
Since it's clear you know better than I do what the situation really
was, I'll give you the "win" on this one, hand you the "don't bother me
with facts, my mind is made up" award, and walk away.
Some of your "facts" made sense others were clearly fabricated. For
instance
the fire in your story was clearly a fabrication. The oil/road dust gunk
on the
engine doesn't spontaneously ignite after being drenched in coolant.
Wow, what a fool 'and' a liar no less.

He had a big hole puking 'oil' all over the place which 'does' catch on
fire when it hits the hot exhaust or other hot parts.

He made no mention of antifreeze or coolant leaking.



No he actually you have it exactly backwards. He made no mention of oil
all
over the place. The part of the casting he said he could see contains
antifreeze
not oil. So if you believe what he said he saw there is no doubt that
antifreeze
was everywhere. The part of the engine that contains the oil he said he
could
not see and he admitted he was only guessing that there was damage down
there.

-jim


I will repeat, you are a Liar and Fool, there, better order?

I have read everything he wrote and you are a liar, and a fool for
thinking the rest of us can't read. He never mentioned coolant, he
mentioned a fire and smoke.

To be entirely fair, a fire, and smoke/steam. It could have been "just
smoke". It could have been "just steam". It could have been some mixture
of both. At that point in time, I didn't much give a damn what it
*REALLY* was - The only important thing was that it got in the way of
clear vision until the wind blew it away.

Oh, and as to the fire:
Once discovered, it was my *ABSOLUTE NUMBER ONE MAIN CONCERN*, since, as
noted, I was making my seasonal move to "winter quarters". Which meant
that almost literally everything I owned at the time was crammed into
the car - clothing, books, computer, tools, cooking gear - basically,
name something a 20-something year old semi-nomadic guy leaving the site
of his job at the end of the season to return to what passed for his
permanent residence might have, and it was probably shoehorned into that
car somewhere. Needless to say, as I scrambled to get it put out (by
scraping up as much snow and gravel from the shoulder as I could and
heaving it into the engine bay) I was rather strongly motivated by
visions of losing everything if I didn't manage to snuff it.

But Jim is so convinced he knows absolutely everything that he's
probably going to call *THAT* a lie, too. That's OK, though. I know the
reality, and if he doesn't like it... <shrug> That's his problem, not
mine.

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